This last ranking put American kids not just behind the Chinese, the Koreans, and the Singaporeans but also after the French, the Austrians, the Hungarians, the Slovenians, the Estonians, and the Poles.
All told, 4.6 million viewers tuned in and the show pulled a 2.4 in the demo, up 14 percent from last week and ranking as the fifth season's best rating since last month's premiere.
He last reached a ranking final at the 1997 Welsh Open when he lost 9-2 to Stephen Hendry.
BBC: SPORT | Other Sport | Snooker | King breezes past Doherty
The Mets' relievers compiled a 4.65 ERA last season, ranking 29th in baseball.
He completed just 57.7% of his passes last season, ranking him No. 25 among quarterbacks, and he threw nine touchdowns to eight interceptions.
Sweden retained its No. 1 ranking from last year while Finland improved three places to place third.
FORBES: Why The U.S. Still Ranks Fifth In 'Networked Readiness' Globally
The last of Hendry's 36 ranking tournament victories came in the Malta Cup in February last year.
BBC: SPORT | Other Sport... | Snooker | Hendry shows class to reach final
This year's list includes 30 women in the top echelons of government, up from 24 in last year's ranking.
In fact, she landed more than 30 covers this year, but proved a bust with readers, ranking dead last in both our likability and cover sales categories.
Wie, playing for the first time in Australia, said Tuesday she has done her best to revamp her game after missing the cut in 10 of the 23 LPGA tournaments she played last year as her ranking dropped into the 60s.
The full-time MBA ranking published last month by BusinessWeek brings the 2012 season of media rankings of business schools to a close, and the results were met with the usual mix of joy, despair and skepticism by the business school community.
FORBES: The Best Business Schools of 2012 - The Ranking of MBA Rankings
She went on to win the season-ending WTA Championships in Doha, sealing the No.1 ranking in the last event of the year.
Last week, chairmen and ranking Republicans on five congressional committees in both houses of Congress asked the Government Accountability Office to find out the facts.
Woods last was atop the world ranking in the final week of October 2010, a span of 125 weeks that represented his longest spell out of the top spot.
The Sale potter will be joined in the next round by Ali Carter , who won his first ranking event title last season when he beat Joe Swail in the final of the Welsh Open.
The vice president's trip comes several days after Qatar's foreign minister said his country had sent a low-ranking representative to last week's Arab League summit in Baghdad in order to send a message over "factionalism in Iraq, " the state-run Qatar News Agency reported.
Dredge is guaranteed the spot as there are no further ranking tournaments in the last two weeks of the year.
The region also has the fastest GDP growth over the last decade, with its national ranking rising from 24th in 2000 to 15th in 2009, the biggest improvement in China.
FORBES: Erdos Per Capita GDP May Surpass Hong Kong's in 3 years
OPR's investigation was so biased, so flawed, and so beneath the Justice Department's own standards that last week the department's ranking civil servant and senior ethicist, David Margolis, completely rejected its recommendations.
Last week, Indiana Senator and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Richard Lugar wrote a letter to US Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton, urging the State Department do more to help American families bring their children home, specifically citing the families adopting children from Vietnam.
FORBES: No Place Like Home: Families Stuck Inside Stalled US-Vietnam Adoption Agreement
Wozniacki can retain her top ranking if she reaches the last four in Melbourne.
Even Cincinnati has reason to be crestfallen as its ranking fell precipitously from 24 last year.
FORBES: The World's Best Airports -- and The Only U.S. Airport to Make The Top 30
"From 2-0 down I did very little wrong, " said the Englishman, who will be looking to claim his second ranking title, having won last year's Welsh Masters.
Mo Farah ran the second fastest time by a Briton over 5, 000m last week to vastly improve his European ranking and he followed that up with a good 1500m in London.
That means that between now and the French Open, he's going to play at most 19 more matches. (Federer won Dubai, Indian Wells and Madrid last year, so he has many ranking points to defend from those events.) If he plays 15 to 18, that's plenty.
But almost everywhere global warming had slipped down the ranking of issues discussed in the last month.
That was more than enough to shoot her up our ranking of top 100 venture capitalists last April.
FORBES: Q&A With Venture Capital's 'Queen Midas,' Deborah Farrington
应用推荐