Did You Know?

0 Comments | Insight on the News, Feb 21, 2000 | by John Elvin

* Eighth-graders in rural areas are 75 percent more likely to have used crack cocaine than are children of the same age in urban areas (U.S. Conference of Mayors study conducted by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse).

* Forty percent of high-school seniors profess to be "bored," a record number since surveys on the matter first were taken in 1965 (University of California at Los Angeles Higher Education Research Institute annual survey).

* More than 1 billion unique pages exist on the World Wide Web, with 86.55 percent in English (survey by Inktomi search engine and NEC Research Institute).