11/84Number of police officers and Secret Service agents at the wedding of Ronald Reagan’s daughter Patti: 180

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    Number of guests: 134

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11/84Number of times Ronald Reagan has seen his 17-month-old granddaughter: 0

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11/84Number of covers Paris-Match has devoted this year to President François Mitterrand: 2

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    To Monaco’s royal family: 9

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11/84Percentage decrease-in the cost of seven ounces of Beluga Imperial caviar, from 1982 to 1983: 50

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11/84Average price of a pheasant at Lobel’s butcher shop in New York: $24.95

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11/84Price of a roasting rat in Nigeria: 65¢

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11/84Percentage of international arms exports to the Third World that goes to African nations: 18

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11/84Number of the world’s thirty-five poorest nations that are in Africa: 23

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11/84Dollars spent by Americans annually for packaged cookies: $2,400,000,000

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    Dollars spent by Americans annually for pornography: $7,000,000,000

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11/84Percentage increase in sales of American flags during the past year: 20

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11/84Percentage of Americans who believed in 1973 that communism is the worst form of government: 44

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    Percentage who believe this today: 61

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11/84Number of countries in which a citizen can be penalized for not voting: 19

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11/84Estimated percentage of professional boxers who suffer brain damage: 87

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11/84Ratio of physicians to inhabitants in the Soviet Union: 1:270

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    Ratio of physicians to inhabitants in the United States: 1:520

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    Ratio of prison inmates to inhabitants in the United States: 1:520

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11/84Leper population of the Americas: 300,000

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11/84Dollars spent on health care in the United States in 1983: $354,600,000,000

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    Percentage of that amount paid by the government: 43

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11/84Estimated hours of work that are lost each year to alcoholism: 2,500,000,000

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    Estimated hours of work that are lost each year because of menstrual cramps: 576,000,000

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11/84Number of abortions per every 100 live births in the United States: 42.6

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    In Japan: 155

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11/84Number of American children conceived with donated sperm and/or carried to term by surrogate mothers: 250,000

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11/84Percentage increase, since 1970, in the number of adult Americans who live with their parents: 85

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11/84Percentage of cohabiting American couples who were unwed in 1970: 1

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    In 1983: 4

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11/84Percentage of American men who admit they wear uncomfortable shoes because they look good: 20

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    Percentage of American women who admit they wear uncomfortable shoes because they look good: 45

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11/84Number of American shoe factories that close each week: 1

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11/84Number of new American plays and adaptations that appeared on Broadway in 1959: 27

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    In 1983: 8

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11/84Watts of power used by the human brain when it is engaged in deep thought: 14

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    Watts required to operate an IBM personal computer: 63.5

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11/84Number of years it takes for the information stored in the world’s libraries and computers to double: 8

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11/84Percentage of nuts that squirrels lose because they forget where they put them (according to Beatrix Potter): 50

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