ozteabe (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} ozteabe) wrote,@ 2006-03-29 00:10:00 |
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Libraries throughout the world contain far more copies of Garfield than the World Book Encyclopedia!
This list compiles the top 1000 titles owned by libraries across the world, though it has a heavy American bias.
On a related note then, no wonder then, the US seems to be losing its advantage in sciences. Last year, the National Academies - Advisors to the Nation on Science, Engineering and Medicine reported some scary facts-
1. More than 600,000 engineers graduated from institutions of higher education in China. In India, the figure was 350,000. In America, it was about 70,000 in the year 2004.
2. In 1999 only 41 percent of U.S. eighth-graders had a math teacher who had majored in mathematics at the undergraduate or graduate level or studied the subject for teacher certification -- a figure that was considerably lower than the international average of 71 percent.
3. The US industry spends more on Tort Litigation as compared to Research and Development.
4. Of 120 chemical plants being built around the world with price tags of $1 billion or more, one is in the United States and 50 are in China.
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By the way, Mother Goose beats Shakespeare on the top 1000 books list!!
This list compiles the top 1000 titles owned by libraries across the world, though it has a heavy American bias.
On a related note then, no wonder then, the US seems to be losing its advantage in sciences. Last year, the National Academies - Advisors to the Nation on Science, Engineering and Medicine reported some scary facts-
1. More than 600,000 engineers graduated from institutions of higher education in China. In India, the figure was 350,000. In America, it was about 70,000 in the year 2004.
2. In 1999 only 41 percent of U.S. eighth-graders had a math teacher who had majored in mathematics at the undergraduate or graduate level or studied the subject for teacher certification -- a figure that was considerably lower than the international average of 71 percent.
3. The US industry spends more on Tort Litigation as compared to Research and Development.
4. Of 120 chemical plants being built around the world with price tags of $1 billion or more, one is in the United States and 50 are in China.
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By the way, Mother Goose beats Shakespeare on the top 1000 books list!!
