Bits of Interest

US losing about 80,000 acres of wetlands per year.
That is about the area of a football field every 9 minutes.

378 million spent on education. 347 million on Research. 73 million on treatment. 158 on screening.

Most burglars enter through your front door.

VH1's Save the Music Foundation has donated $40 million
worth of new musical instruments to 1500 schools in 100 cities.

34.9 million people are at risk from hurricanes. More than 1 in 8 in the Americans live in the Atlantic hurricane threatened areas.

Lost your identity? DC has the highest rate per 100,000. Followed by Arizona, Nevada and California.

The Iraq war has become the deadliest for journalists. World War II and then Vietnam.
This is just another example of high cost of this war.

The aftermath of the Minneapolis bridge collapse-59 percent of Americans are anxious about bridges.

Thanks to Michael Vick, dog fighting raids are up. July and August showed a rise from 17 cases to 42. *Hooray for the people reporting these Barbarians!
On that note-Laura Norton-Dye, of Cape Girardeau, MO paid $7,400 for 22 Michael Vick football cards on eBay. She is asking the money be donated to the Humane Society of Southeast Missouri and to Safe Harbor, a local animal sanctuary.*KUDOS for Ms Norton-Dye!