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$1,764,000
Price listed in the Neiman Marcus Christmas catalog for a flight into space for a party of six. The trip will take place aboard the Virgin Galactic spacecraft and includes medical prep, training and a postflight party at Virgin Group chairman Sir Richard Branson's private Caribbean island retreat. ...
Playing Devil's Advocate
Blogger Steve Wells has counted the number of people killed in the Bible. God takes the lives of 2,270,365 (not including the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, and the many plagues and famines, etc.). Satan is responsible for only 10 deaths, those of Job's seven sons and three daughters. ...
Cheese Burglars
In Italy 1 out of every 10 items shoplifted is Parmesan cheese. ...
State of Denial
According to a kids-versus-parents sexual-awareness poll in New York magazine, 55% of its teenage respondents have had sex, but only 26% of the parents think their child has had intercourse. ...
It's Not the Size of the Boat...
Only 4% of female Cosmopolitan readers say penis size is the key to their sexual satisfaction. Thrusting technique came out on top, at 55%. ...
Questionable Characters
Of the 1.5 million students who took the SAT in 2006, just 15% wrote the required essay in cursive script; the other 85% printed it in block letters. Educators predict that, due to the ubiquity of computers, cursive's days are numbered. ...
That's Not So Hot
As of December 2006, number of copies sold of Paris Hilton's CD: 103,000. Copies sold of her sex tape: 750,000. ...
Oh God, Oh God
According to a Beliefnet poll, 55% of its respondents say sex is a part of their spirituality, 38% have prayed either before or after sex, and 48% define sex as a gift from God. ...
They Do Less After Nine A.M.
The national unemployment rate: 4.4% The rate among nonveterans aged 20 to 24: 3/| O/o The rate among veterans aged 20to24:11% ...
A Bad Man Is Hard to Find
Bodog.com's odds on whose body will be found first: Jimmy Hoffa's, 15 to 4; Osama Bin Laden's, 2 to 13. ...
Fund-Raisers
Q7P/ of parents assume O / /Othat scholarships and grants will help with college costs; almost 75% think their child is special enough to warrant a scholarship. ...
