Americans rate the microwave as the product that most improves their lives; the computer comes in second (Greenfield Online; Upside Magazine) ... There are some 145,000 Web pages sporting Pamela Anderson Lee and, on AltaVista, an average of 3.3 million searches for her name each year (The Wall Street Journal) ... Only one in four Americans sides with the US Department of Justice in the Microsoft case (The Gallup Organization) ... Software programmers in the United States average 7,700 lines of code each year; for coders elsewhere that figure is 16,700 (Dr. Howard Rubin, Rubin Systems) ... Forty percent of North American Internet users switch service providers after their free trial expires (Forrester Research) ... Last year, 32 percent of Net users in the United States retrieved music content online (Cyber Dialogue) ... By 2003, online sales of automobiles in North America will reach $12 billion (Forrester Research) ... More than 150 million people worldwide are on waiting lists for telephone service (Deloitte Research) ... Less than 30 percent of Americans are willing to participate in phone surveys (Council for Marketing and Opinion Research) ... Fearing Y2K glitches, more than 40 percent of Americans plan to withdraw extra cash from their bank accounts shortly before the new year (Wirthlin Worldwide)
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