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Published: July 12, 2007
Between 1956 and 1960, Lake Tahoe’s resident population surged from 2,850 to 12,000.Published: July 12, 2007
~ Tahoe Quarterly, Summer 2007
Chinese is the number one spoken language in the world with 1,075 million speakers. In second place is English (514 million speakers); Hindi is in third place (496 million); and Spanish is in fourth place (425 million people). Fifth and sixth place are Russian and Arabic respectively.
~ infoplease.com
An estimated 72 percent of American’s “youth are not eligible for military service because they are too fat, too weak, not smart enough and prone to drug-use and criminal behavior, according to a panel of senior military officers.”
~ Air Force Times, June 21, 2007
The biggest threat to the U.S. economy is a steep rise in personal savings. “In the early 1980s, U.S. consumers saved about 10 percent of their after-tax income; in 2005, the saving rate hit zero. A rapid rebound in savings could be devastating.”
~ Newsweek, July 9, 2007
Since 1979, the incomes of the bottom 20 percent of earners in America have grown only 2 percent, adjusted for inflation. But during that same period, the incomes of the top 20 percent increased a whopping 63 percent.
~ The New York Times Magazine, June 10, 2007
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