Who Americans Are and What They Do, in Census DataBy SAM ROBERTS
Published: December 15, 2006
"Americans drank more than 23 gallons of bottled water per person in 2004 — about 10 times as much as in 1980. We consumed more than twice as much high fructose corn syrup per person as in 1980 and remained the fattest inhabitants of the planet, although Mexicans, Australians, Greeks, New Zealanders and Britons are not too far behind."
Amazingly, this story interests lots o' people; right now, it sits atop of the Times' "Most Popular" stories list.
See what the GPO has to say about The Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2007 or check out the data itself, at census.gov.
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The San Francisco Chronicle gave it pride of place: Top of page 1. And bulleted the astonishing new statement of book sales: $55.5 billion for next year, based on BISG's new calculations. That's over 3.1 billion books. In the non-reading U.S.
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