HARPER'S INDEX 
        
        
        1. Number of American universities that have instituted 
        restrictions on public speech since 1988:              137 
        
        2. Number of personal- computer disks seized form American homes 
        by Secret Service agents last May: 23,000
        
        3. Total number of documents classified as "secret" or "top 
        secret" by the federal government last year:           5,506,720
        
        4. Number of times the phrase "read my lips" has appeared in the 
        Washington Post since George Bush's inauguration:      140
        
        5. Average portion of their tax dollars Americans estimate are 
        wasted:                                                1/2
        
        6. Number of El Salvador's 15 highest-ranking officers whose 
        troops have committed "brutal human rights abuses":    14
        
        7. Number of these officers who have received U.S. training: 
                                                               12
        
        8. Average number of South African police officers who have 
        resigned each day this year:                           23
        
        9. Percentage change, since last fall, in the number of riot-
        control troops on duty in the Soviet Union:            +250
        
        10. Ratio of the average office rent in Moscow's business dis-
        trict to the rent in midtown Manhattan, per square foot: 
                                                               2:1
        
        11. Percentage change, since the first quarter of 1989, in the 
        total capital raised by new junk bond issues:          -94
        
        12. Percentage of all outstanding junk bonds that are owned by 
        U.S. life insurance companies:                         17
        
        13. Number of U..S. life insurance companies that have gone 
        bankrupt since 1985:                                   68
        
        14. Percentage of all savings and loan associations that failed 
        during the Depression:                                  5
        
        15. Percentage that the government expects will fail in the next 
        five years:                                            25
        
        16. Percentage of Americans who say that, given the choice, they 
        would rather hear the bad news first:                  63
        
        17. Number of international terrorist organizations in 1969: 
                                                               13
        
        18. Number today :                                     74
        
        19. Incidents of international terrorism since 1977 that involved 
        a BMW:                                                 33
        
        20. Incidents that involved a Chevrolet Camaro :        1
        
        21. Rank of Hong Kong, among localities with the most Rolls-
        Royces per capita :                                     1
        
        23. Number of automobiles that have been discarded in the United 
        States since 1946:                                     288,324,898
        
        24. Months after Exxon hired Veco International to clean up the 
        Valdez spill that Veco bought the Anchorage Times:     9
        
        25. Chances that he level of pollution in a U..S. river has 
        gotten worse or not imp;roved singe 1970:              9 in 10
        
        26. Number of families who have applied to purchase homes a Love 
        Canal this year: 225                                   
        
        27. Number of people who still live in areas contaminated by the 
        Chernobyl accident:                                    2,200,000
        
        28. Federal funds to be spent this year on lead-lined trucks to 
        house the administration during nuclear attack:        $58,000,000
        
        29. Amount the President proposes to spend on this program next 
        year:                                                  $85,000,000
        
        30. Federal funds spent on drug-rehabilitation programs for state 
        and local prison inmates last year:                    $2,000,000
        
        31. Federal funds budgeted for these programs this year: 
                                                               $0
        
        32. Ratio of reported rape victims with incomes of less than 
        $3,000 to those with incomes of more than $15,000:     6:1
        
        33. Chances that the death of a 10 to 14 year old American in 
        1968 was a suicide:                                    1 in 69
        
        34. Chances today:                                     1 in 17
        
        35. Number of Colombians killed ;by death squads last year be-
        cause they were believed to be homosexuals of prostitutes: 
                                                               364
        
        36. Estimated percentage of AIDS carriers, worldwide, who con-
        tracted the virus through heterosexual sex:            60
        
        37. Amount the U.S. Air Force spent this year to study the ef-
        fects of jet noise on pregnant horses:                 $100,000

        38. Percentage of veterinarians who say they have felt depressed 
        after putting an animal to sleep:                      67
        
        39. Percentage of men between the ages of 40 and 64 who snore 
        heavily:                                               60
        
        40. Percentage of rural Chinese couples who say they usually 
        spend less than a minute of foreplay:                  34
        
          Reprinted without authorization from "Harper's" Magazine 
               August 1990