if I thought that what you wrote was correct, I would have to kill myself.
Bill
At 05:08 PM 19/05/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Statistics
>
>v Number of people in the world, (pop. 5.5 billion) that live in abject
>poverty: 1.4 billion
>
>v Number of people currently expected to die from starvation: 900 million
>
>v Percentage of those that live in the undeveloped
>
>nations: 97
>
>v Number of children in world dying each year from controllable illness:
>12 million
>
>v Number of people in world that died each of the five years of World War
>II: 10 million
>
>v Number of people in world that die each year of preventable social
>causes: 10 million
>
>v Cost of one new Osprey aircraft (50 planned):
>
>$84 million
>
>v Annual cost of treatment to eliminate world's malaria cases: $84 million
>
>v Money set aside annually for malaria control by organized world health:
>$9 million
>
>v Money set aside for Viagra pills per annum by organized world health:
>$40 million
>
>v Number of children in world blinded yearly from lack of Vitamin A: 500
>million
>
>v Number of women who died during childbirth last year in world: 650,000
>
>v U.N. estimate of yearly expenditure on war: $800 billion
>
>v U.N. estimate of yearly expenditure on health services: $25 billion
>
>v Number of children in world that die by age 5 (yearly): 12 million
>
>v Percentage of those that succumb to routine preventable health causes: 90
>
>v Ratio of African-American to white new born deaths in U.S. last year: 2:1
>
>v Number of reported pediatric measles deaths in U.S. last year: 45
>
>v Amount of money not allocated by Congress for measles vaccines: $9 million
>
>v Average amount of 1999 year-end bonus paid to Oxford HMO execs: $6 million
>
>v Time it takes the Pentagon to spend annual federal allocation for
>women's health: 15 minutes
>
>
>- Figures compiled by Don Sloan, M.D.
