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July/August 1999

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Varsity athletes at Stanford:

829

Annual practice time of men's soccer team, in hours:

400

Annual practice time of academic College Bowl team, in hours:

108

Combined tenure of current head coaches, in seasons:

304

Days of sunshine per year at Stanford:

260

Average life span of a collegiate game baseball, in innings:

1/2


Percentage of 1998 Stanford biological sciences PhDs with

full-time employment:

100

Percentage of 1998 Stanford English PhDs employed full time:

45

Stanford humanities PhDs awarded, 1998:

86

Average years spent to obtain a 1998 Stanford humanities PhD:

7.35


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Average hours of sleep per day, newborn child:

18

Average hours of sleep per day, middle-age adult:

7

Time spent dreaming per day, in hours:

2

Narcoleptic Dobermans at Stanford Sleep Research Center:

20

Sources: 1. Athletic Department; Western Regional Climate Center; 2. Biological Sciences Department; English Department; Registrar's Office; 3. The Promise of Sleep; Stanford Sleep Research Center.

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