In fact
May 15, 2012
The combined assets of the family that owns Walmart equal those of the America’s bottom 150m people.
[Financial Times, March 31]
May 14, 2012
Only 55% of Swedes indicated that “getting sexy with someone” wasn’t their preferred activity when the lights go off.
[The Local, March 28 2012]
May 13, 2012
In Europe, while Sweden was the first country to introduce bank notes in 1661, it’s now farther than any other in the attempt to eradicate them.
[The Atlantic, March 19 2012]
May 12, 2012
Analysis by Verizon, the US communication company, found that 174m records were stolen through hacking, viruses and other electronic intrusions in 2011.
[Financial Times, March 22 2012]
May 11, 2012
In US, unlike the general trend, educated women tend to marry with greater frequency than in the past: in 1960 29% of them never married, now only 8%.
[The Atlantic, March 19 2012]
May 10, 2012
A 19-year-old woman reported being raped by an unknown man in a public toilet at a Stockholm football stadium during the middle of a match.
[The Local, April 10 2012]
May 09, 2012
The Chinese civil service exam asks female applicants to report when they typically menstruate.
[The Atlantic, March 21 2012]
May 08, 2012
A Swedish mother, charged with forcing her 3-year-old son to smoke cigarettes and drink alcohol , didn’t offer the court any explanation why.
[The Local, March 26 2012]
May 07, 2012
More than half the women under age 30 who give birth in the United States are single.
[The Atlantic, March 19 2012]
May 06, 2012
Morocco, Syria and Saudi Arabia with fertility-rate declines of nearly 60%, and Iran with more 70% are among the fastest declines in recorded history.
[The New York Times, March 12 2012]
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