City Pages – No. 1?
City Pages – No. 1?:
The United States is 49th in the world in literacy (the New York Times, Dec. 12, 2004).
The United States ranked 28th out of 40 countries in mathematical literacy (NYT, Dec. 12, 2004).
Twenty percent of Americans think the sun orbits the earth. Seventeen percent believe the earth revolves around the sun once a day (The Week, Jan. 7, 2005).
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yep, but they can still get on the internet…. well, some of them, we aren’t very well ranked there either.
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Where does the U.S. stand in television viewing? Betcha it’s #1 or close.
Just thinking out loud here…