The August "Harpers" just arrived - two things in the Index

[ThomWV]

First let me give a plug for Harper's magazine. It's simply must be read every month. If you could subscribe to no others I recommend it, and of course The Nation.

Every month's issue has a 1-page section called "Harper's Index" that is just a collection of stand alone facts -but mostly things you are not likely aware of. Generally speaking they can be real eye-openers. This month's issue had two items in it that I would like everyone to see. The fist, a pair of similar entries, concerns employment and the second about an "ally" of ours. Here they go:

"Percentage of applicants offered undergraduate admission to Harvard this year: 6.2%"
"Percentage of applicants accepted for employment on McDonald's National Hiring Day in April: 6.2%"

and next,

"Estimated percentage of Afghanistan's gross national product that comes from U.S. aid and other foreign sources: 97%"

[TheWraith]

1. That fact about Afghanistan is less impressive, when you consider that...

Afghanistan's GNP is only slightly more than McDonald's yearly revenue. Seriously: $25 billion versus $24 billion.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. Per Afghanstan's gross national product..

http://costofwar.com/en/

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. Good lord, that is a depressing site....I don't think I can count that high!

An the numbers are moving at a frightening clip.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

3. Been around a long time, like The Atlantic Monthly and Scientific Asparagus.

I subscribe to the New Yorker. I consider that a necessity.

Harper's is excellent.

I'm so old I remember Saturday Review, when they went to four different issues.

[robinlynne]

4. WOW. And I'm saying wow to Afghanistan.

[xchrom]

5. Recommend

[Major Hogwash]

7. Was Harvard always that popular? I don't recall them being the "it" college to go to in the 70s.

I didn't even apply to them after I graduated from high school.
No one I knew did.