•"Yahoo" is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle."
•"97% of the world's population now lives in countries where the fertility rate is falling," writes author Jonathan Last.
•"By 2050, workers' median age in China and Japan will be about 50, a decade higher than in America," writes Robert Samuelson. •"Globally, the production of a given quantity of crop requires 65% less land than it did in 1961," writes author Matt Ridley.
•"Household debt is now 163.4% of disposable income in Canada, close to the U.S. level at the height of the subprime crisis," writes The Wall Street Journal.
•"Last year, for the first time, spending by Apple and Google on patent lawsuits and unusually big-dollar patent purchases exceeded spending on research and development of new products," writes The New York Times. •"More than 50 million Americans couldn't afford to buy food at some point in 2011," writes CNNMoney, citing U.S. Department of Agriculture data. In June 2012, 46.7 million Americans received food stamps.
•"Of the Americans who earn over $150,000, 82 percent had a bachelor's degree. Just 6.5 percent had no more than a high school diploma," writes Catherine Rampell of The New York Times.
•"U.S. oil production grew more in 2012 than in any year in the history of the domestic industry, which began in 1859," writes Tom Fowler of The Wall Street Journal.