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Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani has a ready answer for the nation's woes: statistics.
Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani has a ready answer for the nation's woes: statistics.
"My chance of surviving prostate cancer — and thank God I was cured of it — in the United States? Eighty-two percent," says Rudy Giuliani in a new radio ad attacking Democratic plans for universal health care.
Even Rudy Giuliani would acknowledge that he can be prickly. Now, it seems, the tough-talking former mayor is growing estranged from empirical fact.
The monthly browser share statistics from NetApplications are in today, and the Opera desktop browser is the big winner among the pack. Opera's market share increased to 0.99% in the month of October from 0.87% in the month before, a 14% increase.
Everyone has those nagging suspicions about repeating patterns of numbers or "rigging" the lottery.
Legislation pending in the U.S. Congress would require health plans to cover mental health the same way they cover other medical problems. Here are some facts on the legislation and prevalence of mental illness and substance abuse:
We spent $8.4 billion last year on 2.2 billion litres of suds Canadians purchased 2.2 billion litres of suds last year worth $8.4 billion.
Every state has a law requiring it to have a cancer surveillance program and collect specific information about every patient whose cancer was diagnosed by a doctor in that state.
About one in five working American families can't afford basic needs, and many scrape to get by on insufficient income and government aid, policy researchers conclude in a report (.pdf file) released today.
There's been some discussion recently among moneybloggers about writing more for those who earn the minimum wage, and for those who face other financial difficulties. This is a good thing.
You've never seen data presented like this. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-called "developing world" using extraordinary animation software developed by his Gapminder Foundation.
While men hold 54% of the jobs in the United States, they account for 93% of workplace fatalities. Not surprisingly, the deadliest jobs are those where men make up the majority of workers. Murder, falls, and other accidents account for most job-related deaths.
This is mostly due to a significant drop in traffic for msn.com; in fact, because Alexa's Top Sites list is based on three months of data, it's been clear for weeks that MSN and Google were going to cross paths.
In a rare appearance before Congress yesterday, Blackwater founder and CEO Erik Prince answered questions about his company's operations in Iraq; by mutual agreement, details of the September 16 shootings in Baghdad, which reportedly left 17 Iraqis dead and another 24 wounded, we …
In Europe, the idea that has been forced upon scientists basically since the beginning of formation is that one without a Post-Doc period spent in the United States is a nobody in science. While it still seems to be truth, the trend starts to shift.
While approximately 1,000 US military service members have died every year for the past three years while away at war, the true slaughter of US citizens takes place on America's highways, in homes, hospitals, and workplaces.
I cannot believe Petraeus was able to go before Congress and completely shift the debate by claiming sectarian violence is down in Iraq, without his phony methodology being revealed or the true number of civilian casualties in Iraq being exposed.
Not tonight, Honey. I'm online.
The survey is the industry's leading source for key statistics in high demand, including averages for liquidation rates, expenses, employee turnover and more.
London has 10,000 crime-fighting CCTV cameras which cost £200 million, figures show today. But an analysis of the publicly funded spy network, which is owned and controlled by local authorities and Transport for London, has cast doubt on its ability to help solve crime.
How comfy we are all in the United States, as we engage in living-room debates about the US occupation of Iraq, whether "we" are bringing them freedom and whether their freedom is really worth the sacrifice of so many of our men and women.
The winner of the Superbowl or World Series is that season's best-performing team. Right?
One of the biggest secrets to making more money online is right under your nose, literally in your web stats. Best of all, you don't have to know and understand html or website coding to read your website statistics or "web stats".
Unemployment in Australia remains at a three-decade year low. The official work force figures for August show a national jobless rate of 4.3 per cent, where it has stood for four months in a row. It has not been lower since 1974.
Prime Minister John Howard has used research into the growing middle class in developing nations to attack people planning protests against APEC.
Unfortunately, at the moment the political paralysis seems to be a more powerful force than the military momentum, and progress in security is unsustainable without sectarian compromise among Iraq's Kurds, Sunni Arabs and Shiites.
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