Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
76
One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
-86
Although African-Americans make up only 13% of the U.S. population, they accounted for one half of the estimated new HIV/AIDS diagnoses in 2004.
70
You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
330
No president of the United States was an only child for his parents.
51
The United States does not have an official language.
88
The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
100
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
2