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10/89Grams of saturated fat in 3 ounces of Nature Valley Granola: 11.8

9/92Number of this year’s presidential candidates who have a child named after a Joni Mitchell song: 1

12/95Price of a sheet of “undipped” blotter-acid art signed by Timothy Leary, from San Francisco’s ArtRock Gallery: $225

7/96Average number of neuro-active drugs Timothy Leary has ingested each day this year, according to his Web site: 8

6/97Symbolic portion of Gene Roddenberry and Timothy Leary shot into orbit last April, in ounces of ashes apiece: 0.25

9/97Percentage change in black students admitted to Berkeley Law School since California banned affirmative action: -81

1/98Percentage of Canadian adults under the age of 25 who believe that Neil Armstrong was the first Canadian in space: 10

10/99Amount of corporate funding or advertising accepted by the Pacifica Radio Network’s five stations since 1949: 0

    Number of days last July that Pacifica locked out the entire staff of Berkeley’s KPFA over internal politics: 17

2/03Chances that a new student at the University of California at Berkeley last fall had at least one foreign-born parent: 2 in 3

12/06Percentage of N.F.L. fourth downs on which teams are better off “going for it,” according to a Berkeley study: 40

    Percentage of fourth downs on which N.F.L. teams do go for it: 13

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