Did You Know?

0 Comments | Insight on the News, April 2, 2001 | by John Elvin

Forty-three percent of Americans ages 12 to 24 have made purchases via the Internet, followed by Swedes, 41 percent; Germans, 33 percent; Canadians, 25 percent; and Britons, 22 percent (Ipsos-Reid international survey, quoted by NewsFactor Network. The report notes a "surprise revelation" that Asian youth are not buying online in significant numbers).

* Seventy-five thousand children are involved in warfare in Asia as members of government armies, paramilitaries and nongovernmental armed-forces groups, particularly in Myanmar and Cambodia but also in Indonesia, the Philippines and Laos (Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers, quoted by Earth Times News Service).

* Fifty-two percent of Americans oppose allowing oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (Wilderness Society poll conducted by Republican pollster Bellwether Research and Democratic survey firm the Mellman Group).