Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Wertheim cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Facts and figures. | Comment Facts and figures Gregory A Petsko Address Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center Brandeis University Waltham MA 02454-9110 USA. Email petsko@ Published 28 July 2006 Genome Biology 2006 7 111 doi gb-2006-7-7-111 The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at http 2006 7 7 111 2006 BioMed Central Ltd I spend far too much time flipping through a slim volume that arrives in my mailbox at the start of every summer. No it isn t a travel brochure for island get-aways. It s the Pocket World in Figures published by The Economist magazine. I realize I am committing something of a faux pas by referring to The Economist as a magazine. With a haughtiness they perhaps have earned since they ve been in business since September 1843 they always refer to themselves as this newspaper . It s sort of like David Beckham referring to himself in the third person I guess. I ve been a subscriber for over 30 years and along with the only decent news coverage of the world outside the United States one of the other benefits I get is this yearly little book. You can learn all kinds of amazing things just from opening it at random. For example the United States has the second highest divorce rate in the world divorces per 1 000 population the UK is 14th at Canada is 29th at . The country with the highest rate is Aruba . Aruba What on earth is it about Aruba that puts such a strain on marriages It can t be the tourists no other Caribbean nation makes the top 40. Certainly can t be the weather. Aruba touts itself as a very friendly place maybe the people there are too friendly. Anyway whatever the reason there s something about Aruba that s apparently incompatible with marital longevity. The country with the lowest rate is Colombia with only divorces per 1 000 people. The fact that it s a Catholic country is certainly part of the reason but so might be the fact that owing to a .
