The Big One
Tiny numbers, big impacts.
(ILLUSTRATION: PUBLIC DOMAIN)
• One book series—The Hunger Games—includes eight of the top 10passages singled out by Kindle readers for highlighting. The most frequently highlights: "Because sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them."
• One factory in Morton, Illinois, processes more than 80 percent of the world's canned pumpkin.
• One out of 35 students at NCAA Division I colleges is an African American man. Over half the members of those colleges' football and basketball teams are African American men.
• One company—Anheuser-Busch InBev—controls almost half the U.S. beer market.
• One-third of America's legally consumed alcohol is drunk by 2.5 percent of adults.
