Technology Topics

• Chip Speed Is Accelerating Intel chips' speed in MIPS on log scale [Wall Street Journal, Dec. 7, 1994, B1:4]
• The Software Juggernaut Microsoft's total revenue, in $bil [Wall Street Journal, Jul. 18, 1994, A1:6]
• New Antidepressants Prescriptions for Prozac, Zoloft, and Paxil [Wall Street Journal, Dec. 29, 1993, B1:1]
• Where AT&T Stands in Long Distance Share of revenues from the U.S. consumer long distance market [Business Week, Dec. 13, 1993, p.37]
• R&D Spending by Major U.S. High-Tech Companies [Wall Street Journal, May 22, 1995, B1:4]
• The World's Top Software Pirates [Business Week, June 5, 1995, p.4]
• Maximum Size of Molecular Dynamics Simulations [MRS Bulletin, April 1995, p.5]
• Percent of Pd.D.'s Earned by Women in Physics, Engineering, Mathematics, Chemistry, and Biology [APS News, November 1995, p.5. Data source: NRC Summary Report, various years. The data cited for physics Ph.D.s earned are from the American Institute of Physics' Enrollment and Degrees Report. Graph from: Improving the Climate for Women in Physics Departments by M. S. Dresselhaus, J. Franz, and B. Clark. Report available by contacting exoffice@aps.org.]

Legal Topics

• Who Gets What? Average total compensation for U.S. law-firm partners by specialty [Wall Street Journal, Sept. 2, 1994, B3:1]
• Billing Rates The standard hourly billing rates charged by attorneys with more than 20 years of experience, by specialty [Wall Street Journal, Sept. 11, 1995, B5:3]
• Geography Lesson Typical hourly billing rates for law firms' partners as a function of the firm's location [Wall Street Journal, Oct. 29, 1993, B12:1]
• In-Housers' Earnings Based on total compensation of in-house lawers at 219 U.S. companies [Wall Street Journal, Dec. 31, 1993, p.11]
• Biggest Verdicts of 1993 [Wall Street Journal, Jan. 14, 1994, B3:1]
• Personal Injury Verdicts of 1994 Where is the McDonald's hot-coffee verdict? [Wall Street Journal, March 24, 1995, B6:1]
• Average Wages of Federal and State Trial Judges [Wall Street Journal, March 31, 1995, B6:1]
• Motives of Future Lawyers [Wall Street Journal, May 1, 1995, B12:1]
• Starting Salaries of new Law Graduates [Wall Street Journal, Sept. 18, 1995, B8:1]

Other Topics

• Eight Cultural Indicators Average daily TV viewing; SAT scores; % of illegitimate births; Children with single mothers; Children of welfare; Teen suicide rate; Violent crime rates; Median prison sentence [Wall Street Journal, March 15, 1993, Sec. A]
• Fatal Traffic Accidents as a function of age, and Factors in fatal accidents by driver age [Wall Street Journal, Oct. 29, 1993, A1:1, A8:1]
• Percent of all drivers in each age group getting in at least one accident severe enough to be reported to the police [AAA Car & Travel, Jan-Feb 1996, p.9]
• Most Popular Fruit Juices [USA Today, Apr. 4, 1995, D1:1]
• Number of French words imported into English [The Economist, May 6, 1995, p.87]
• Campus Hiring Rebounds [Business Week, May 15, 1995, p.8]
• World Diamond Production [The Economist, August 19, 1995, p.58]
• Crime in Russia [The Economist, September 2, 1995, p.48]
• American music sales (LPs, Cassettes, and CDs) [The Economist, December 23, 1995, p.85]

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