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Mar 2006Number of half-siblings who have found each other on a website for children of anonymous sperm donors: 1,316
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Donor Sibling Registry (Nederland, Colo.)

Dec 2001Price per family that a Puerto Rican company charged last December for a 5-minute stay in a refrigerated snowscape: $30
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Family Entertainment Inc. (Miramar, P.R.)

Aug 2001Ratio of the starting salary of an Oklahoma prison guard to the federal poverty level for a family of four: 10:11
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Oklahoma Corrections Department (Oklahoma City)/U.S. Census Bureau

Apr 2001Chances that the taxes of a low-income working American family will not be reduced by the Bush tax plan: 3 in 5
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Citizens for Tax Justice (Washington)

Oct 1999Number of confirmed deaths caused by doctored Halloween candy given to children by their relatives: 1
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Prof. Joel Best, University of Delaware (Newark, Del.)

Sep 1999Change since last fall in the number of network sitcoms whose main characters are members of the same family: -25
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NBC (Los Angeles)/CBS (Los Angeles)/ABC (N.Y.C.)/The Complete Directory of Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946-Present, Ballantine (N.Y.C.)

Sep 1999Pages of the British royal family's medical records found in a folder lying by the side of a Scottish road last March: 70
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Scottish Sun (Glasgow)

Jul 1999Height, in feet, of a scarlet “A” a Sunnyside, Wash., woman put in her family's yard last fall to protest her father's adultery: 7
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Yakima Herald Republic (Yakima, Wash.)

Feb 1999Amount the family of Osama bin Laden was paid by Saudi Arabia to construct U.S. barracks there this year: $150,000,000
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U.S. Department of Defense

Dec 1998Number of Harvard fellowships endowed by members of Osama bin Laden's family since 1992: 2
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Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.)

Dec 1998Fee that an anonymous family has paid Texas A&M University to clone their pet collie mix, Missy: $2,300,000
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Texas A&M University (College Station, Tex.)

Jun 1998Percentage of the poverty level for a family of three earned by a full-time minimum-wage worker: 82
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Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (Washington)

Apr 1998Ratio of the average amount a U.S. family spent on food, clothing, and shelter last year to what it spent on taxes: 3:4
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Tax Foundation (Washington)

November 14, 2006A British man testified that he picked up his ten-month-old niece by the ankles and smashed her to death because there was within him a “beast that shows his ugly head every now and then.” The beast, he said, told him to make her feel “a little bit of pain.”
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BBC News

December 14, 2004A study found that parents enjoy a visit with Santa more than their children do.
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Guardian

December 4, 2003A Colorado woman was jailed for falsely claiming that her son is a genius.
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New York Times

October 6, 2003Three generations of the Zer-Aviv family, including four-year-old Liran and one-year-old Noya, their parents, and their grandmother, were killed.
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New York Times

August 25, 2003and hundreds of corpses were said to be lying unclaimed in refrigerated trucks.
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BBC

June 27, 2003"[The overturning of a Texas law against sodomy] opens the door to bigamy, adult incest, polygamy, and prostitution," said the head of the Family Research Council.
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New York Times

December 31, 2002 Walmart stopped selling “Happy Family” Barbie, which comes with a wedding ring and a detachable stomach with a baby inside, after customers complained about the doll.
November 6, 2001Reporters visited the village of Chowkar-Karez in Afghanistan where a man named Mehmood moved his family to keep them safe from the American bombs: “I brought my family here for safety,” he said, “and now there are 19 dead, including my wife, my two children, my brother, sister, sister-in-law, nieces, nephews, my uncle.” United States forces apparently thought the refugees were Taliban soldiers.
September 25, 2001American Eagle TV was laying plans for a cable channel that would broadcast continuous live coverage of an American eagle family.
August 21, 2001Princess Diana's former butler was charged with stealing a diverse collection of objects from the royal family including “an Indiana Jones bullwhip,” snapshots and cards from “Mummy” to her boys, Versace handbags, a book, a pepper grinder, recordings of Abba, Phil Collins, Neil Diamond, Elton John, and Leo Sayer, and an autographed picture of David Hasselhoff.
August 14, 2001Five of the dead were from a single family.
August 14, 2001A family of five died in Pakistan when a bomb blew up a school bus.
July 17, 2001A British family whose home is infested with 300 bats was told by authorities that the bats cannot be moved because they are protected wildlife.
July 3, 2001A New Orleans woman was charged with ten counts of attempted murder after an argument over an ugly baby; the woman threw fuel on ten people, three generations of one family (including two infants), and tried to set them on fire. Her match failed to light.
June 12, 2001A jury awarded $6.4 million to the family of a man who killed his wife, his daughter, and his grandchild after taking Paxil, an antidepressant; GlaxoSmithKline, which manufactures the drug, was surprised by the verdict.
June 12, 2001An Israeli received a new heart from a Palestinian man whose family said he was killed by Jewish settlers.
June 5, 2001Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal reportedly shot and killed most of the royal family, including his mother, Queen Aiswarya, and his father, King Birendra Bir Birkram Shah Dev (who as king was thought to be an incarnation of Vishnu, the Hindu god). Prince Dipendra then shot himself through the temple; he was crowned king as he lay unconscious in a hospital, and promptly died. Prince Gyanendra, his uncle, ascended to the throne and claimed that the royal deaths were the result of the “accidental firing of an automatic weapon.” Riots ensued.
April 24, 2001The family of Dave Sanders, a teacher killed at Colombine, filed a $5 billion class-action lawsuit against 25 media companies for turning Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold into killers with the violent imagery of movies and video games.
January 30, 2001 Congo's president Laurent Kabila was buried; he was killed by his bodyguards, all of whom were recruited by Kabila as children when he was a rebel commander. They said they did it “because of suffering.” Johnny and Luther Htoo, a pair of twin boys who until last week were the leaders of the Burmese rebel group God's Army, admitted that they did not have magic powers or an invisible army under their command; Luther told a reporter that he just wanted “to live as a family” with his parents.
November 7, 2000A man who killed his family in 1975 was found guilty of killing his second family last year; he was found not guilty by reason of insanity in his previous trial.
August 22, 2000Czar Nicholas II and his family were made saints for the “humbleness, patience, and meekness” they displayed when they were murdered by Bolsheviks in 1918.
August 1, 2000A family of Vermont sheep farmers vowed to prevent the government from slaughtering their flock of Belgian dairy sheep; four sheep descended from the flock tested positive for an ovine form of mad cow disease; “this is just like trying to take Elian Gonzalez all over again,” one neighbor said.
July 25, 2000The Russian Orthodox Church nominated Czar Nicholas II and his family for canonization.

December 2009

THE GENERAL ELECTRIC SUPERFRAUD
Why the Hudson River Will Never Run Clean
By David Gargill

THE MASTER OF SPIN BOLDAK
Undercover with Afghanistan’s Drug-Trafficking Border Police
By Matthieu Aikins

MERMAID FEVER
A story by Steven Millhauser

UNDERSTANDING OBAMACARE
By Luke Mitchell

Also: Dave Hickey and Wendell Berry