For all those who think USA is a good place to live!

* Beatings by husbands and boy friends are the leading cause of injuries to the U.S. women. (surgeon general's report.)

* According to the FBI, a battering incident occurs every 18 seconds in the U.S., and 30% of female homicide victims are killed by their husbands or boyfriends. In October 1992, the Senate Judiciary Committee found that at least 1.1 million assaults against women in the home were reported in 1991. By some estimates 3 million more such crimes go unreported each year.

* Rule of Thumb: Under English Common Law a husband was allowed to beat his wife if he used moderation, as in a stick no thicker than a thumb.

* 42% of women in the U.S. military are sexually assaulted.

* Three out of four women will be victims of violent crimes. And one out of five will be raped in their life time.

* A woman is raped every six minutes.

* Every other U.S. woman has been approached by at least one person who tried to rape her.

* "Thirteen year old rapists are no uncommon,neither are 8 year old victims."

(N. Y. Times 13 June 89).

* "More than a third of women slain in this country die at the hands of husbands or boyfriends,and domestic violence is the single largest cause of injuries to women in the United States. The home is actually a more dangerous place for American women than city streets." [ U.S. Surgeon Geberal Dr. Anotnia C. Novello, 20 Oct 91]

* "During 1985-1990 more than half of all births to 18- and 19- year old women in the U.S. were out of wedlock." [Census Bureau Report, N.Y. time s4 Dec 91]

Domestic Abuse in America

• 4 million American women experience a serious assault by a partner during an average 12-month period. ¹

• On the average, more than three women are murdered by their husbands or boyfriends every day.²

• 92% of women say that reducing domestic violence and sexual assault should be at the top of any formal efforts taken on behalf of women today.³

• 1 out of 3 women around the world has been beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused during her lifetime.⁴

• 1 in 5 female high school students reports being physically and / or sexually abused by a dating partner. Abused girls are significantly more likely to get involved in other risky behaviors. They are 4 to 6 times more likely to get pregnant and 8 to 9 times more likely to have tried to commit suicide. ⁵

• 1 in 3 teens reports knowing a friend or peer who has been hit, punched, slapped, choked or physically hurt by his / her partner.⁶

• Women of all races are equally vulnerable to violence by an intimate partner.⁷

• 37% of all women who sought care in hospital emergency rooms for violence–related injuries were injured by a current or former spouse, boyfriend or girlfriend.⁸

• Some estimates say almost 1 million incidents of violence occur against a current or former spouse, boyfriend or girlfriend per year. ⁹

• For 30% of women who experience abuse, the first incident occurs during pregnancy.¹⁰

• As many as 324,000 women each year experience intimate partner violence during their pregnancy. ¹¹

• Violence against women costs companies $72.8 million annually due to lost productivity.¹²

• 74% of employed battered women were harassed by their partner while they were at work.¹³

• Ninety-four percent of the offenders in murder-suicides were male.¹⁴

• Seventy-four percent of all murder-suicides involved an intimate partner(spouse, common-law spouse, ex-spouse, or boyfriend/girlfriend). Of these, 96 percent were females killed by their intimate partners. ¹⁴

• Most murder-suicides with three or more victims involved a "family annihilator" -- a subcategory of intimate partner murder-suicide. Family annihilators are murderers who kill not only their wives/girlfriends and children, but often other family members as well, before killing themselves. ¹⁴

• Seventy-five percent of murder-suicides occurred in the home.¹⁴

1. Henise, L., Ellsberg, M. and Geottemoeller, M. Ending Violence Against Women, Population Reports, Series L, No. 11., December 1999.

2. Bureau of Justice Statistics Crime Data Brief, Intimate Partner Violence, 1993-2001. February 2003.

3. Liz Claiborne Inc., study on Teen dating abuse conducted by Teenage Research Unlimited, February 2005.

4. Jay G. Silverman, PhD; Anita Raj, PhD; Lorelei A. Mucci, MPH; and Jeannie E. Hathaway, MD, MPH, "Dating Violence Against Adolescent Girls and Associated Substance Use, Unhealthy Weight Control, Sexual Risk Behavior, Pregnancy , and Suicidality," Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 286, No. 5, 2001.

5. Bureau of Justice Statistics, Violence Against Women: Estimates from the Redesigned Survey, August 1995.

6. Bureau of Justice Statistics, Crime Data Brief, Intimate Partner Violence, 1993-2001, February 2003.

7. US. Department of Justice, Violence? Related Injuries Treated in Hospital Emergency Departments, August 1997.

8. US Department of Justice

9. The Commonwealth Fund, Health Concerns Across a Woman's Lifespan: 1998 Survey of Women's Health, May 1999.

10. Helton et al 1987.

11. Gazmararian JA, Petersen R, Spitz AM, Goodwin MM, Saltzman LE, Marks JS. "Violence and reproductive health; current knowledge and future research directions." Maternal and Child Health Journal 2000; 4(2):79-84

12. Costs of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in the United States . 2003. Center for disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. Atlanta , GA /

13. Family Violence Prevention Fund. 1998. The Workplace Guide for Employer, Unions, and Advocates, San Francisco , CA .

14. Violence Policy Center (VPC), American Roulette: Murder-Suicide in the United States , April 2006

From:

Mohammad Usman

General info about Human Body

Our heart beats around 100,000 times every day.
· Our blood is on a 60,000-mile journey.
· Our eyes can distinguish up to one million color surfaces and take in more information than the largest telescope known to man.
· Our lungs inhale over two million liters of air every day, without even thinking. They are large enough to cover a tennis court.
· Our hearing is so sensitive it can distinguish between hundreds of thousands of different sounds.
· Our sense of touch is more refined than any device ever created.
· Our brain is more complex than the most powerful computer and has over 100 billion nerve cells.
· We give birth to 100 billion red cells every day.
· When we touch something, we send a message to our brain at 124 mph.
· We have over 600 muscles.
· We exercise at least 30 muscles when we smile.
· We are about 70 percent water.
· We make one liter of saliva a day.
· Our nose is our personal air-conditioning system: it warms cold air, cools hot air and filters impurities.
· In one square inch of our hand we have nine feet of blood vessels, 600 pain sensors, 9000 nerve endings, 36 heat sensors and 75 pressure sensors.
Think About it!
From: izlamabad@yahoogroups.com On Behalf Of A B Malik

Eyes	Are the most complex organs you possess except for your brain.
Eyes	Are composed of more than two million working parts.
Eyes	Can process 36,000 bits of information every hour.
Eyes	Under the right conditions, can discern the light of a candle at a distance of 14 miles.
Eyes	Contribute towards 85% of your total knowledge.
Eyes	Utilize 65% of all the pathways to the brain.
Eyes	Can instantaneously set in motion hundreds of muscles and organs in your body.
Eyes	In a normal life-span, will bring you almost 24 million images of the world around you.
Eyes	The external muscles that move the eyes are the strongest muscles in the human body for the job that they have to do. They are 100 times more powerful than they need to be.
Eyes	The adult eyeball measures about 1 inch (2.5 cm) in diameter. Of its total surface area only one-sixth is exposed -- the front portion.
Eyes	The eye is the only part of the human body that can function at 100% ability at any moment, day or night, without rest. Your eyelids need rest, the external muscles of your eyes need rest, the lubrication of your eyes requires replenishment, but your eyes themselves "never" need rest. But please rest them!
Eyes	Eyes are your most precious sense... care for them properly!

info..

The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

* The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue .

* There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

* It is impossible to lick your elbow.

* People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.

* It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

* If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.

* Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history.

Spades - King David

Clubs - Alexander the Great

Hearts - Charlemagne

Diamonds - Julius Caesar .

* Question - This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this?

Ans. - Honey

* A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

* Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

* In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

* Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.

* Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

* Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

* The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

* Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different. 

-A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.

-The most common blood type in the world is type O.

-The rarest blood type in the world is type A-H, less than 12 people have it.

-Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails

-The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.

-Hummingbirds are the only animals that can fly backwards.

-The longest one-syllable word is "screeched."

-In the Scottish language Gaidhlig (Gaelic), there is no word for 'yes' or 'no'.

-The French words 'eau' [water] and 'oui' [yes] have no consonants.

-Smokers need twice as much vitamin C (80mg) as non-smokers (40mg) daily   

-=[The Top 10 Languages Spoken In The World]=-

10. French
Number Of Speakers: 129 Million

Often called the most romantic language in the world, French is spoken in tons of countries, including Belgium, Canada, Rwanda, Cameroon, and Haiti. Oh, and France too. We're actually very lucky that French is so popular, because without it, we might have been stuck with Dutch Toast and Dutch Fries.

To say "hello" in French, say "Bonjour" (bone-JOOR).

9. Malay-Indonesian
Number Of Speakers: 159 Million

Malay-Indonesian is spoken - surprise - in Malaysia and Indonesia. Actually, we kinda fudged the numbers on this one because there are many dialects of Malay, the most popular of which is Indonesian. But they're all pretty much based on the same root language, which makes it the ninth most-spoken in the world.

Indonesia is a fascinating place; a nation made up of over 13,000 islands it is the sixth most populated country in the world. Malaysia borders on two of the larger parts of Indonesia (including the island of Borneo), and is mostly known for its capital city of Kuala Lumpur.

To say "hello" in Indonesian, say "Selamat pagi" (se-LA-maht PA-gee).

8. Portuguese
Number Of Speakers: 191 Million

Think of Portuguese as the little language that could. In the 12th Century, Portugal won its independence from Spain and expanded all over the world with the help of its famous explorers like Vasco da Gama and Prince Henry the Navigator. (Good thing Henry became a navigator . . . could you imagine if a guy named "Prince Henry the Navigator" became a florist?) Because Portugal got in so early on the exploring game, the language established itself all over the world, especially in Brazil (where it's the national language), Macau, Angola, Venezuela, and Mozambique.

To say "hello" in Portuguese, say "Bom dia" (bohn DEE-ah).

7. Bengali
Number Of Speakers: 211 Million

In Bangladesh, a country of 120+ million people, just about everybody speaks Bengali. And because Bangladesh is virtually surrounded by India (where the population is growing so fast), the number of Bengali speakers in the world is much higher than most people would expect.

To say "hello" in Bengali, say "Ei Je" (EYE-jay).

6. Arabic
Number Of Speakers: 246 Million

Arabic, one of the world's oldest languages, is spoken in the Middle East, with speakers found in countries such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Egypt. Furthermore, because Arabic is the language of the Koran, millions of Moslems in other countries speak Arabic as well. So many people have a working knowledge of Arabic, in fact, that in 1974 it was made the sixth official language of the United Nations.

To say "hello" in Arabic, say "Al salaam a'alaykum" (Ahl sah-LAHM ah ah-LAY-koom).

5. Russian
Number Of Speakers: 277 Million

Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, and Yakov Smirnoff are among the millions of Russian speakers out there. One of the six languages in the UN, Russian is spoken not only in the Mother Country, but also in Belarus, Kazakhstan, and the U.S. (to name just a few places).

To say "hello" in Russian, say "Zdravstvuite" (ZDRAST-vet-yah).

4. Spanish
Number Of Speakers: 392 Million

Aside from all of those kids who take it in high school, Spanish is spoken in just about every South American and Central American country, not to mention Spain, Cuba, and the U.S. There is a particular interest in Spanish in the U.S., as many English words are borrowed from the language, including: tornado, bonanza, patio, quesadilla, enchilada, and taco grande supreme.

To say "hello" in Spanish, say "Hola" (OH-la).

3. Hindustani
Number Of Speakers: 497 Million

Hindustani is the primary language of India's crowded population, and it encompasses a huge number of dialects (of which the most commonly spoken is Hindi). While many predict that the population of India will soon surpass that of China, the prominence of English in India prevents Hindustani from surpassing the most popular language in the world. If you're interested in learning a little Hindi, there's a very easy way: rent an Indian movie. The film industry in India is the most prolific in the world, making thousands of action/romance/musicals every year.

To say "hello" in Hindustani, say "Namaste" (Nah-MAH-stay).

2. English
Number Of Speakers: 508 Million

While English doesn't have the most speakers, it is the official language of more countries than any other language. Its speakers hail from all around the world, including the U.S., Australia, England, Zimbabwe, the Caribbean, Hong Kong, South Africa, and Canada. We'd tell you more about English, but you probably feel pretty comfortable with the language already. Let's just move on to the most popular language in the world.

1. Mandarin
Number Of Speakers: 1 Billion+

Surprise, surprise, the most widely spoken language on the planet is based in the most populated country on the planet, China. Beating second-place English by a 2 to 1 ratio, but don't let that lull you into thinking that Mandarin is easy to learn. Speaking Mandarin can be really tough, because each word can be pronounced in four ways (or "tones"), and a beginner will invariably have trouble distinguishing one tone from another. But if over a billion people could do it, so could you. Try saying hello!

To say "hello" in Mandarin, say "Ni hao" (Nee HaOW). ("Hao" is pronounced as one syllable, but the tone requires that you let your voice drop midway, and then raise it again at the end.)