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article was “Asteroid is Expected to Make a Pass Close to Earth in 2028,“MalcolmW. Browne, March 12,1998, and “Debate and Recalculation on an Asteroid’s Progress,” Malcolm W. Browne, March 13, 1998.

Sacramento Bee, “America isn’t Immune to Animal Diseases,” Deborah S. Rogers, March 30, 2001—based on a 1989 study by the University of Pittsburgh that states that 5% of deceased Alzheimer’s patients could have instead suffered from CJD.

Chapter 7—The End of Men

Where we stand with the women’s movement: The only woman on the ballot of a major party was Geraldine Ferraro, who ran for Vice President with Walter Mondale in 1984. The five women governors are: Jane Dee Hull (AZ), Ruth Ann Minner (DE), Jane Swift (MA), Judy Martz (MT), and Jeanne Shaneen (NH) (National Governors Association). According to the Center for American Women and Politics, there are 13 women Senators and 60 female members of the House of Representatives (as of July 26, 2001). The four Fortune 500 companies which have women CEOs are Hewlett-Packard (Carly Fiorina), Avon Products (Andrea Jung), Golden West Financial Corporation (Marion 0. Sandler) and Spherion Corporation (Cinda A. Hallman). The top 21 universities (according to U.S. News & World Report 2001 College Rankings) with women presidents are: Princeton University (Shirley Tilghman), University of Pennsylvania (Dr. Judith Rodin), Duke University (Nan Keohane), and Brown University (Ruth Simmons—who is also the first African-American president of an Ivy League institution).

Statistics on the poverty rate of divorced women come from the Society for Advancement of Education, “Count the Costs Before You Split,” April 1998.

Equal Pay Day was ‘celebrated’ in 2 001 on April 3, the same day the US Department of Labor released a report that measured the wage gap, the Chicago Sun-Times, “Women Still Earn Less Than Men,” Francine Knowleds, April 3, 2001.

Men’s and women’s health comparisons come from The Economist, “Are Men Necessary? The Male Dodo,” December 23, 1995; www.msnbc.com

“Men May Be the Weaker Sex,” Linda Carroll, January 16, 2001; and National Institute of Mental Health, “The Numbers Count: Mental Disorders in America“/Hoyert DL, Kochanek KD, Murphy SL; final data for 1997.

Chapter 8—We’re Number One!

The World Health Organization of the United Nations estimates that there are 1 billion people in the world without access to clean drinking water. Using cost estimates of $50 per person (from the World Game Institute, www.worldgame.org the total cost of providing clean water would be $50 billion. Since the Reagan administration, we have spent $60 billion on the insane Star Wars project. Over the next 15 years it is projected that we will spend another $50 to $60 billion, according to the Congressional Budget Office. We also give upwards of $100 billion a year in corporate welfare. In other words, the entire planet could have clean water tomorrow if our priorities were different. The Center for Defense Information has estimated that the total cost of the national missile defense system (including past expenditures and conservative estimates of future expenditures) will be approximately $200 billion. Center for Defense Information, “The Costs of Ballistic Missile Defense,” Christopher Hellman.

Estimates for those without energy come from The World Bank in its report “Meeting the Challenge: Mural Energy and Development for Two Billion People Report,” 2000. The number of people without phone service is from Internet pioneer Dr. Vinton Cerf in a speech at the Creating Digital Dividends conference in Seattle, October 17, 2000.

Information about the FY2001 Pentagon budget comes from the Council for a Livable World, “Fiscal Year 2001 Military Budget at a Glance,” www.clw.org College tuition figures are calculated from the US Vital Statistics—US Census Bureau Population Report Table #247 and the US National Center for Education Statistics, Digest of Education Statistics, #311.

Sources for “We’re Number One!” lists: Children’s Defense