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37.9 years

Average Life expectancy in Zimbabwe in 2002. AIDS is the number one cause of death for Zimbabweans between 15 and 59.

SOURCE: UNITED NATIONS

60%

Percentage of Iraqis who were unemployed in December 2003.

SOURCE THE NEW YORK TIMES

120,000

Number of Vietnam War draft resisters who fled to Canada from the United States during the 1960s and 1970s to escape military service. [see p. 8]

SOURCE: THE NEW YORK TIMES

17%

Percentage of teenagers who say they have "a lot" of friends from racial or ethnic groups other than their own.

SOURCE GALLUP POLL, DEC. 2003

7 million

Number of Americans who...