Harper's Index for June 2005

From Harpers.org Harper's Index for June 2005 Posted on Wednesday, July 6, 2005. Sources Annual cost of all sixteen U.N. peacekeeping missions currently underway: $3,870,000,000[United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations (N.Y.C.) ] Monthly cost of the U.S. occupation of Iraq: $4,100,000,000[U.S. Department of Defense] Revenue from Iraqi oil sales that the CPA could not account for, according to a 2005 audit: $8,800,000,000[Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (Arlington, Va.)] Estimated number of U.S. intelligence reports on Iraq that were based on a single defector: 100[Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the U.S. Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction (Washington)] Number of times the defector had ever been interviewed by U.S. intelligence agents: 0[Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the U.S. Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction (Washington)] Minimum number of newspapers in which Denmark posted ads this year seeking antiterrorist spies: 3[Danish Defense Intelligence Service (Copenhagen)] Percentage of Iceland residents who took out an ad this winter apologizing for Icelandic support of the Iraq war: 1.5[The Movement for Active Democracy in Iceland (Reykjavik)/Statistics Iceland (Reykjavik)] Number of books published last year in Iceland and the United States, respectively, per 100,000 residents: 212, 63[Icelandic Publishers Association (Reykjavik)/R. R. Bowker LLC (New Providence, N.J.)] Number of books registered at BookCrossing.com, so the books can be left in public places and found by others: 1,935,000[BookCrossing.com (Lake Winnebago, Mo.)] Number of the books left behind that have been from the Left Behind series: 2,047[BookCrossing.com (Lake Winnebago, Mo.)] Rank, on the Turkish bestseller list in March, of a thriller depicting a U.S. invasion of Turkey: 1[D&R (Istanbul)] Rank of Mein Kampf: 2[D&R (Istanbul)] Chance that a resident of the former East Germany wants the Berlin Wall back: 1 in 8[Forsa (Berlin)] Number of lines that Italy's largest cellular operator has set aside for government eavesdropping: 5,000[Telecom Italia Mobile (Rome)] Number of these that were in use in March: 5,000[Telecom Italia Mobile (Rome)] Chance that a Russian scientist says he or she would consider working for North Korea: 1 in 7[Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Livermore, Calif.)] Year by which every U.S. nuclear weapon will have reached the end of its original design life: 2014 (see page 56)[Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of Energy] Number of merit badges in Safety awarded to Boy Scouts since 2001: 15,417[Boy Scouts of America (Irving, Tex.)] Number in Shotgun Shooting: 65,249