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9/86Number of the seven domestic terrorist attacks in 1985 that the FBI believes were committed by Jewish groups: 4

9/86Amount spent by the United States in 1985 on military operations in the Third World: $137,600,000,000

    Amount spent guarding the country’s borders: $9,200,000,000

9/86Annual percentage growth, since 1981, in the income of people who live in California and the East Coast states: 4

    In the income of people who live in the other thirty-four states: 1.4

9/86Number of feet the geographic center of U.S. population moves to the west each day: 58

    Number of feet it moves to the south: 29

9/86Number of Chile’s fifty regional governors who are military officers: 50

    Percentage of Chileans who say they feel “boredom,” “indifference,” or “antagonism” toward politics: 53

9/86Percentage of Brazilians who suffer from malnutrition: 65

9/86Cost of annual membership in the Breakfast Club at New York’s 21 Club: $5,000

9/86Percentage of the 2,000 referendums on water fluoridation held since 1950 that have been voted down: 60

9/86Percentage of practicing physicians who belonged to the American Medical Association in 1962: 74

9/86Percentage of jobs created in the United States between 1978 and 1984 that pay less than $9,200 annually: 37

9/86Number of major corporations that contributed more to Senator Packwood in 1985 than they paid in taxes: 13

9/86Number of colleges and universities that offered courses in “men’s studies” in 1984: 30

9/86Percentage of Americans who say they have been “moved to tears” by a greeting card: 29

9/86Number of different songs broadcast by Muzak each day: 480

9/86Percentage of Italian women who say they are more romantic than their husbands: 62

9/86Percentage of Americans who say they are “very likely” to become an organ donor: 32

    Percentage who say they are “very likely” to donate a “loved one’s” organs: 70

9/86Percentage of Americans who say they are “dissatisfied with the honesty and standards” of others: 63

9/86Estimated number of weather vanes stolen in Maine in the last year: 80

9/86Cost of building a maximum-security prison, per cell: $75,600

9/86Number of state and federal prisoners granted early release in 1985 because of prison overcrowding: 18,617

9/86Number of states in which probationers are required to help pay for their own supervision: 23

    Number who committed suicide, were murdered, or died of natural causes since 1977: 39

9/86Number of times mail carriers were bitten by dogs in 1985: 6,312

9/86Reported cases of people bitten by rats in New York City in 1985: 311

    Of people bitten by other people: 1,519

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