C'est vrai . The U.S. government is now measuring U.S. vital statistics by applying French methodology to the French population and then extrapolating the results onto the U.S. population. Vive la difference , indeed. We eagerly look forward to next year's installment of this groundbreaking research, which may well find that people with higher incomes are also more likely to buy their own automobiles, satellite dishes, and jacuzzi's. After the billion-dollar accelerator began to malfunction, researchers shut it down and discovered two empty beer bottles that had been left in a vacuum chamber.
Cows are notorious emitters of methane, a principal greenhouse gas.
What they meant to convey was data for the years 1988-1994. Imagine how pleasant the fieldwork for that study must have been. Even worse, a study by the American Society for Microbiology found that an appalling one-third of Americans do not wash their hands after using the bathroom.