Stupid White Men-- and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation! - Michael Moore [114]
Sources for the answers to the pop quiz: Annual salary—Source: U.S. Vital Statistics, Table #696—Bureau of Labor Statistics; 911 response Ladies Home journal, “Before You Call 911: Is this emergency number the lifesaver it should be?,” Paula Lyons, May 1995; Extinction countAssociated Press, “11,000 Species Said to Face Extinction with Pace Quickening,” September 29, 2000; Ozone hole size—the Christian Science Monitor, “Ozone Woes Down Below,” Colin Woodward, December 11, 1998; Detroit vs. Africa: Detroit = 19.4% (199l)—Annie E. Casey Foundation, “Kids Count” Report, April 25, 2000; Libya = 19%, Mauritius = 19%, and Seychelles = 13 %—UNICEF; Newspaper Guild; Justice Policy Institute, “School House Hype: School Shootings and the Real Risks Kids Face in America,” Elizabeth Donohue, Vincent Schiraldi, and Jason Ziedenberg, 1999.
Much of the information about corporate presence in schools comes from the Center for the Analysis of Commercialism in Education, Third Annual Report on Trends in Schoolhouse Commercialism, September 14, 2000. Additional material comes from the Associated Press, “Marketing to Free-Spending Teens Gets Savvier,” by Dave Carpenter, November 20, 2000; “The Commercial Transformation of American Public Education,” 1999 Phil Smith Lecture by Professor Alex Molnar, October 15, 1999; MotherJones, “The New (And Improved!) School,” Sept/Oct. 1998; Mother Jones, “Schoolhouse Rot,” Ronnie Cohen, January 10, 2001; New York Times, “Five-Shift Lunches to End?,” Richard Weir, May 17, 1998; Atlanta-Journal Constitution, “Coca-Cola Learns a Lesson in Schools,” by Henry Unger and Peralte Paul, March 14, 2001; The Nation, “Students For Sale: How Corporations Are Buying Their Way into America’s Classrooms,” Steve Manning, September 27, 1999; the Washington Post, “Pepsi Prank Fizzles on ‘Coke Day,“’ by Frank Swoboda, the Washington Post, March 26, 1998.
The threatening kid profile came from “Risk Factors for School Violence,” Federal Bureau of Investigation Study of School Shootings, September 2000.
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Pepsi recycling information comes from “Dumping Pepsi’s Plastic,” Ann Leonard, 1994 (article appears at www.essential.org) and telephone interview with the author; Sword of Truth, “India: Dumping Ground of the Millennium?” Keerthi Reddy, January 13, 2001.
The story about Congressional recycling was featured in the Associated Press, “Texas Congressman, Environmental Groups Target House Recycling,” Suzanne Gamboa, September 20, 2000.
Air pollution rates were calculated with information from the Environmental News Network, “Air Pollution Kills, But Deaths Can Be Prevented,” August 30, 1999; and the American Lung Association, “American Lung Association Fact Sheet: Outdoor Air Pollution,” August 2000 update.
Information on gas mileage capabilities can be found in Automotive News, “Chrysler: CAFE Hike Possible,” Arthur Flax, May 8,1989; Automotive News, “More Horsepower!,” Charles Child, June 24, 1995; and the Washington Post, “The Regulators; Battling to Raise the Bar on Fuel Standards,” Cindy Skrycki, May 16, 2 000. How much SUVs consume is from Sacramento Bee, “Scary Talk from Shrub and the Veeper,” Molly Ivins, May 3, 2001. And the amount drilling in the ANWR would produce is quoted from the New York Times, “Cheney Promotes Increasing Supply As Energy Policy,” Joseph Kahn, May 1, 2001.
Despite pressure from environmental groups to veto a transportation bill that protected the SUV loophole, Clinton signed it anyway, as reported in the San Francisco Chronicle, “Protecting Mother Earth and Gas Guzzlers,” Debra J. Saunders, December 14, 1999.
The study on global warming was reported in the New York Times, “Panel Tells Bush Global Warming is Getting Worse,” by Katharine Seelye and Andrew Revkin, June 7, 2001; and USA Today, “Climate Change Report Puts Bush on Spot,” Tracy Watson and Judy Keen, June 2 0, 2001.
The New York Times articles referred to are: “Ages-Old Icecap at North Pole is Now Liquid, Scientists Find,” John Noble Wilford, August