In fact some 160, 000 Chinese studied in the US in 2011, according to US embassy officials.
According to US State Department estimates, Brazil is the world's second largest cocaine market.
In the last 10 years no other state grew faster in this category, according to US Census data.
Eye drops designed to lower cholesterol may be able to prevent one of the most common forms of blindness, according to US researchers.
BBC: Macular degeneration: Cholesterol drugs 'may save sight'
But according to US government statistics, Afghanistan's dismal rate of infant mortality, a basic indicator of a country's development, has shown no sign of improvement.
According to US officials quoted in the New York Times, Iranian-trained agents have been crossing into southern Iraq to boost support for Shia clerics and an Iranian-style Islamic government.
BBC: Iraqi Shias stage anti-US protest in Karbala, 23 April 2003
The premiere episode of season four, following the cast overseas, broke the record for the largest audience for an MTV premiere with 8.8 million viewers, according to Us Magazine.
Total maintenance costs equal 11 passengers on the plane of 100, according to US Airways, which built its own repair shop in Philadelphia just for the trucks, baggage carts and the tugs that haul them.
This is because, after record global crops in 2008 and 2009, worldwide wheat stocks have risen substantially in the past couple of years, peaking in June at just under 194 million tonnes, according to US government estimates.
According to US Treasury data, the vast majority of American households in the lowest 40% of the income distribution today will move up at least one quintile over the next decade as they go through the life-cycle of earnings.
Sandy-related power cuts were still affecting some 2.5 million customers in the US early on Saturday, according to the US Department of Energy's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, quoted by Reuters.
According to the US justice department, up to 40% of gun purchases take place without a background check - those from private sellers and some at gun shows.
China is the No. 2 corn producer behind the US. It produced around 6.2 billion bushels, or 158 million metric tons of corn in 2010, compared to world leading US production of 12 billion bushels, or 331 million metric tons in 2010, according to the US Grains Council, an industry lobby.
And with an estimated 1.3 billion people flying out of US airports each year by 2032, according to the US Federal Aviation Administration, that adds up to a lot of airport congestion.
Drug enforcement agents estimate that 25 tons of cocaine pass through Honduras each month, and nearly 60% of all cocaine coming into the US has transited through Central America, according to the US government.
One formal job in the US is created for each 65 authorized Brazilian visas, according to the US embassy.
According to the US Energy Information Administration, the Chinese government has targeted to produce 8% to 12% of total natural gas production from shale gas by 2020.
In addition, the country's corporate travel spending is catching up with the US, and looks set to surpass it by 2014, according to the US-based Global Business Travel Association.
According to the US government, some 7, 500 sensors were acquired between 2003 and 2007, to create a movement detection perimeter.
In the US, 11% of people over the age of 12 take antidepressants, according to the US Centers for Disease Control research.
According to the US Census Bureau, SMBs account for 99.7 percent of all employer firms.
According to the US Geological Survey, there may be deposits of rare earths in 14 US states.
According to the US, Saif al-Adel's father-in-law, Mustafa Hamid, is the link between al-Qaeda and the Iranian government.
Hydroelectric power accounted for almost 60% of Panama's electricity generation in 2010, according to the US Energy Information System.
The answer according to senior US figures seems to be a "well, maybe".
One in three American children is obese or overweight according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
According to the US Department of Commerce, Guatemala has the highest per capita use of private aircraft and helicopters in Central America.
According to the US federal agency Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately one in every 20 hospitalised patients contracts a healthcare-associated infection.
But according to two US-based scientists, the owl has some very smart bone and vascular structures running along its neck to the skull.
In the last 15 years, the Asian-American population has nearly doubled and is now at about 12.3 million, according to the US Census Bureau.
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