Half the foods eaten throughout the world today were developed by farmers in the Andes Mountains (including potatoes, maize, sweet potatoes, squash, all varieties of beans, peanuts, manioc, papayas, strawberries, mulberries and many others).

About 45% of leisure visitors to downtown New York City come from outside the United States.

Nearly one third of New York City public school teachers send their own children to private schools.

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