Impressive stats.

• Position: THE CENSUS - Brief article

It's not exactly a page-turner, but the 2009 Statistical Abstract of the United States, published by the Census Bureau, paints a fascinating portrait-by-numbers of the nation. Among the info-bites in its almost 1,400 tables: West Virginia is the only state in which more people have died since 2000 than have been born; more Burmese were granted asylum in the United States between 2005 and 2007 than people from any other country; more Americans are injured by beds than bicycles; and per capita...