Facts & Trends

Almost one in three Americans has been arrested for a crime other than a traffic violation by the age of 23, according to a new study of 7,335 young people.  The 30 percent arrest rate, sociologists said, reflects a more aggressive ...

Human waste from the roughly 700 climbers who scale Mount Everest every year poses a serious health issue on the slopes, the head of Nepal’s mountaineering association warned on March 3. He urged the government to push climbers to dispose ...

Ratio of shooters in the U.S. who attack their own communities: 2 in 3 ...

Students at a Bolivar,Tenn., high school last week elected a classmate with Down syndrome to be homecoming queen.  Kara Marcum, 19, easily beat three other candidates in a victory one teacher chalked up to her considerable personal charm.  Kara also ...

City officials in Chengdu, China, have been painting the city's grass green to make residents think spring is here.The ruse came to light when some residents noticed unpainted patches of yellowish winter grass, and others found the green paint coming off ...

A Paralympic medal winner who spent half her life in a wheelchair has made a miraculous recovery, and now hopes to represent her country in the Olympics.  Monique van der Vorst had been paralyzed from the waist down since the ...

Portion of China's carbon emissions that is produced by manufacturing goods for export: 1/4 ...

The United States costs of military and nation-building activities in Afghanistan and Iraq since the attacks of September 11th, 2001, is approaching half a trillion dollars - nearly the same cost as the 13-year-long Vietnam War ...

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and its supporters produce as many as 90,000 tweets and other social media posts every day. The U.S. State Department is now assigning 80 people to counter ISIS's propaganda on Twitter and Facebook ...

61% - Percentage of employed vacationers who plan to work during their time off doing tasks such as... 38% - Emailing 32% - Accessing work documents on computer 30% - Calling 24% - Texting 20% - Fielding requests by boss, client or co-worker to do work ...