The carbon footprint of food produced and not eaten is estimated at 3.3 gigatonnes of CO2, meaning that if food waste were a country it would rank as the third highest national emitter of greenhouse gases after the US and China.
This represents 12 million Europeans, of whom 25% report daily cannabis use [ 1]. Switzerland has the third highest national prevalence of cannabis use in Europe; the lifetime prevalence rate is 27.9% (men 32.8%, women 23.2%), and the 12-month prevalence rate is 5.1% (men 7.5%, women 2.8%) [ 2].
Dr. Schlessinger's radio ratings -- second highest among all national talk programs -- suggests she has loyal followers across the country.
The numbers registering on Monday far outstripped the second highest day, which was National Voter Registration Day on 5 February when 166,000 people registered to vote.
In 2011, Public School 124 took its students to compete in the second highest category at a national high school chess competition - and won.
China beat Japan to become the second-highest national box office, taking in $2.7 billion to Japan's $2.4 billion in 2012, and ticket sales rose in the United States and Canada.
Jiang Zemin is seventy-six years old, and he first gained high national office in 1989, when, as Party secretary of Shanghai, he kept the city peaceful during the Tiananmen Square crackdown.
Although he is the second highest goal-scorer in the national team's history, he is yet to play at a World Cup.
Part of the Lassen volcanic center, its highest remaining remnant, Brokeoff Mountain, is itself the second highest peak in Lassen Volcanic National Park and connects to the park's highest point, Lassen Peak.
