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...sure, many prosperous Europeans and Japanese pay far higher taxes than Americans, in part to finance social-welfare programs. Yet the private efforts of Americans make an impressive addition to what they do through government. Charitable gifts by Americans totaled $190 billion in 1999--equivalent to one-third of the domestic federal budget, or 2% of our national income...
...peek at the new color SoftBook from Thomson Multimedia, due to hit store shelves in late September, and my doubts began to fade like an aging first edition. The original SoftBook was a fairly hefty creature, a coffee-table tome with a $600 price tag. This baby has shed one-third of its weight (down to a svelte 2 lbs.) and 15% of its size. And at about half the price of the original, it's a lot easier on your wallet...
According to AnnaLee Saxenian, an associate professor of city and regional planning at the University of California, Berkeley, about one-third of the engineers in Silicon Valley are of Indian descent, while 7% of valley high-tech firms are led by Indian ceos. Some successes are well known, such as Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, and Sabeer Bhatia, who founded HotMail and sold it to Microsoft for $400 million. The number of Indian American New Economy millionaires is in the thousands. Massachusetts' Gururaj Deshpande, co-founder of a number of network-technology companies, is worth between $4 billion...
...driving public opinion. Such genetic fingerprints have led to the freeing of 72 inmates, including eight convicted of capital crimes. Other factors include racial and economic disparities in sentencing. In Texas, for instance, two-thirds of those sentenced to die are black or Hispanic, though they make up only one-third of the state population. Then there's bad lawyering: this week attorneys for a Texas death-row inmate, Calvin Burdine, will argue in federal appeals court that he was deprived of due process when his first lawyer slept through much of his trial...
...Jima's numbers are appalling. Practically all the defenders were annihilated or committed suicide. The Marines suffered some 20,000 casualties, including nearly 6,800 dead. That is one-third of all the leathernecks killed in the entire war. Were it not for the atom bomb, tens of thousands of Americans and their Allies would have died during the planned invasion of Japan. If that seems too remote, think of it this way: Bradley, Greene and perhaps even you, reader, might not have been born...