Article posted Thursday, August 30, 2012 10:41am
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66
Percent of women age 18 to 44 who visited a primary care provider in 2009
52
Percent of men of the same age who did
26
Percent of teenagers age 15 to 19 who report they don’t use condoms
73
Percent of men age 40 to 44 who don’t use condoms
25
Percent of men who say they’ve had sex with 15 or more women in their lifetime
60
Percent of fracking wells used to extract natural gas that leak over 30 years
17
Times higher the concentration of methane is in drinking water wells within one kilometer of an active natural gas well
$900,000
Amount Chesapeake Energy agreed to pay for contaminating the water supply of 16 families through fracking operations in Pennsylvania
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; NPR.com; Scientific American