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Personal Stuff: We're No. 1! Is That Good? Parade Magazine, a syndicated newspaper magazine, publishes an annual compilation of the standings of the U.S. and other countries in a host of areas. Here, presented without comment, are a few of their rankings. You draw your own conclusions. It seems the U.S. is: #1 in number of Nobel prize winners, millionaires and billionaires, #1 in total GNP, value of imports & exports, size of defense budget, and gold reserves, #1 in use of home computers, cell phones and the Internet, #1 in AIDS cases and divorces, #2 in percent of population attending college, but #15 in percent of boys attending secondary school (#19 for girls), #2 in having the widest gap between rich and poor, and in murder among industrialized countries, both behind Russia, #3 in movie production, but #1 in movie exports, #3 in health expenditures per capita, but #29 in infant mortality, #16 in maternal mortality, #11 in percent of government income from personal income taxes, but #70 in percent of government income from corporate income taxes, #29 in percent of the population owning their homes, but #1 in ownership of mobile homes.
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