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25%

PERCENTAGE OF U.S. adults who didn't read any books last year, according to a recent poll. The average person read four.

SOURCE: TIME

47 million

NUMBER OF AMERICANS without health insurance in 2006, compared with 44.8 million in 2005.

SOURCE: U.S. CENSUS BUREAU

279 billion

NUMBER OF COUPONS issued in the U.S. in 2006 (roughly 1,000 per person), up 13 percent in the past four years.

SOURCE: THE NEW YORK TIMES

90

NUMBER OF GUNS FOR every 100 U.S. citizens. according to a 2007 survey, making it the most heavily armed country in the world.

SOURCE: TIME

9.7 million

NUMBER OF CHILDREN...