Putting Things in Perspective

From Harpers’s Index:
-Number of U.S. soldiers returned from Iraq in the last year who have been diagnosed with mental-health problems : 5,375
-Ratio of suicides worldwide in 2001 to war deaths : 7:2
-Ratio of Americans killed by lightning since January 2002 to those killed by terrorism : 3:2
-Estimated number of Afghans who died in last year’s pistachio harvest : 50
-Number of restaurants in Guizhou, China, closed in April for adding opium to their dishes : 215