http://www.harpers.org/subjects/Texas?Event#SubjectOf
Number of Texas high schools that offered Bible courses as
electives last year: 25
Number of these courses that broke the law by being primarily
devotional and sectarian, according to a September study: 22
Amount appropriated by the governor of Texas in June to set up
border-watching webcams: $5,000,000
Percentage change last year in the number of stolen cattle
recovered in Texas and Oklahoma: +104
Minimum number of ranches in Texas where one can shoot a zebra: 56
Number of U.S. counties where more than a fifth of “residents” are
prison inmates that are in Texas: 10
Minimum number of times a Houston woman stabbed her husband last
year : 193
Number of suspensions a Dallas-area high school handed out last
fall for dress-code violations : 1,116
Rank of Texas among states in which the largest percentage of
citizens lack health insurance : 1
Number of a Texas toddler's burned fingers amputated in 1992 after
she was left in a car with her mother's lit cigarette : 9.5
Estimated percentage change since 2000 in acres of Texas
recognized as wetlands by the Army Corps of Engineers: -40
Amount the U.S. Air Force will pay a Texas woman this year for
mistakenly hitting her home with a dummy bomb: $12,000
Ratio of the average age of those executed in Texas under Bush to
the average U.S. life expectancy: 1:2
Percentage of the 145 lawyers in the offices of Houston's U.S.
Attorney who were recused from the Enron case in January: 100
Total voting population of a Denton, Texas, tax district when a
development plan was approved there in 1996: 1
Estimated year in which El Paso, Texas, will exhaust its current
sources of water: 2030
Percentage of the working residents of Del Rio, Texas, who are
directly employed in the war on drugs: 20
Amount Houston reimbursed its mayor in January for a course he
took in public speaking: $2,900
Years that Mexico spent fighting a Texas death sentence given one
of its citizens before his execution last fall: 9
Factor by which Texas's incarceration rate has increased since
1990 for every 1 percent drop in its crime rate: 4
Days by which a Texan's prison sentence for candy-bar theft this
year exceeded his sentence for marijuana possession: 550
Number of families in a Texas town who have sued the school
district over its adoption of random drug testing: 1
Number of Colt revolvers that a Texas judge repaired during jury
selection in a capital-murder trial last fall: 2
Chance that a government execution since 1976 was performed in
Texas: 1 in 3
Number of pawnbrokers for every bank in Laredo, Texas: 1.2
Ratio of the average 1850 price in Texas of a healthy male slave
to that of 200 acres of prime farmland: 1:1
Percentage of eligible Texans who voted for George W. Bush for
governor in 1994 and 1998, respectively: 27, 22
Portion of Texas industrial plants operating under “grandfathered”
emissions rules that predate 1971's Clean Air Act: 1/2
Chance that a U.S. juvenile offender on death row is in Texas: 1 in 3
Chance that a Texan living below the poverty line receives
welfare: 1 in 10
Federal anti-poverty funds granted Texas since 1996 that have not
been spent: $149,000,000
Maximum amount of time that a recent Texas bill proposed holding
suspects before assigning a lawyer, in days: 20
Number of death sentences upheld by Texas courts since 1990 for
men whose lawyers slept during their trials: 3
Number of Texas and California counties colonized by African
“killer” bees since 1994: 51
Percentage of the proceeds of an AIDS fund-raising bike ride
across Texas last fall used to cover “production costs”: 85
Number of months after the Civil War ended that slaves in Texas
were told of their emancipation: 2
Number of years that Texas has observed a “Juneteenth” state
holiday to commemorate the day its slaves were told they were free: 19
Percentage by which Jasper County, Texas, raised property taxes
this year to finance the murder trial of John William King: 4.5
Number of times that a white man has been executed for killing a
black man in Texas since 1860: 0
Rank of José, among the most popular names given boys born in
California or Texas last year: 1
Fee that an anonymous family has paid Texas A&M University to
clone their pet collie mix, Missy: $2,300,000
Percentage change in the number of Texans favoring the death
penalty since the execution of Karla Faye Tucker: -21
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