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Ratio of [Democracy|campaign] spending per vote won last year by [NewtGingrich|Newt Gingrich] to spending per vote won by Senator Russ Feingold

: 9:1

Estimated amount a major-party U.S. [Democracy|presidential] candidate must raise per hour this year to become a nominee

: $2,466

Percentage of the [Fall|fall] [1990s|1998] issue of [Britain|Britain’s] The Ecologist [Magazine|magazine] devoted to an investigation of [Monsanto|Monsanto]

: 95

[Hours|Hours] after [Serbia|Serbian] [GeorgeHWBush|president] [SlobodanMilosevic|Slobodan Milosevic] agreed to last [Fall|fall’s] [Kosovo|Kosovo] [War|peace] plan that he closed two [Media|newspapers]

: 12

Ratio of [Minutes|minutes] that the three major networks spent on the [MonicaLewinsky|Lewinsky] story last [Fall|fall] to minutes they spent on [Kosovo|Kosovo]

: 5:1

Ratio of the number of [Propaganda|political ads] aired last year that used the word “good‚” to those that used the word “evil‚”

: 44:1

Rank of the [Beer|Budweiser] [Frog|frog] [Propaganda|TV-ad] campaign, among the most popular commercials with [Child|children] over the age of six

: 1

Chances that a [Disney|Disney World] [Jobs|employee] is [Labor|unionized]

: 2 in 5

[Hours|Hours] after [ABC|ABC’s] technical [Labor|union] declared a strike last [Fall|fall] that [AlGore|Al Gore] canceled an ABC interview

: 12

Percentage change since then in the number of [RepublicanParty|Republican] candidates endorsed by a [Labor|union]

: +125

Percentage change since [1990s|1994] in the number of votes cast by members of [Labor|union] households

: +66

Ratio of the number of [HouseOfRepresentatives|House incumbents] who ran unopposed last year to the total number of [Congress|congressmen] in 1791

: 1:1

Rank of [Disney|Disney World], among the country’s largest single-site [Jobs|employers]

: 1

Chances that a [Palestine|Palestinian] [Jerusalem|Jerusalemite] believes this

: 2 in 3

Average number of donations that a [NorthCarolina|North] Carolina [Religion|church] receives each week through its [Banking|ATM]

: 7

Percentage of the funds spent fighting [Alaska|Alaska’s] [Homosexuality|gay]-[Marriage|marriage] initiative last year that came from the [Religion|Mormon Church]

: 79

Ratio of the number of U.S. state ballot initiatives to limit [Abortion|abortion] [Democracy|voted] on last year to those advocating [Animal|animal] rights

: 1:3

Extra [Days|days] of legal [Hunting|duck hunting] this month in three Southern states as a result of Senator Trent Lott’s [Corruption|lobbying]

: 14

Chance that an American believes [BillClinton|Bill Clinton] is “a bigger threat to the American way of life‚” than [SaddamHussein|Saddam Hussein]

: 1 in 5

Estimated amount the [Pentagon|Pentagon] will spend this year on [Lust|Viagra]

: $50,000,000

Number of the three action figures inspired by [Space|John Glenn] that are dressed in a suit and tie

: 1

Estimated number of [College|colleges] that [NewtGingrich|Newt Gingrich’s] [Education|high-school] [Football|football] coach queried in vain for a big enough helmet

: 5

Estimated number of people who watched a live [Internet|Webcast] of a [Hair|hair] [Medicine|transplant] last [Fall|fall]

: 8,000

Months after [Boxing|boxing] promoter Don King was acquitted of [Mendacity|fraud] last year that he took his jurors to the Bahamas

: 2

Price of a day’s excursion at Obertraun Schilcherhaus, an [Austria|Austrian] resort offering nude [Sport|cross-country skiing]

: $30

Number of [Medicine|emergency-room] visits in [1990s|1997] by [SeniorCitizen|elderly] Americans injured while [Snow|snowboarding]

: 75

Chance that a [Judaism|Jewish] [Jerusalem|Jerusalemite] agrees that sovereignty over the city’s holy sites “ultimately belongs to [Yahweh|God] ‚”

: 1 in 3

Change since [1910s|1916] in the percentage of U.S. [Science|scientists] who say they believe in a [Religion|god]

: 0

Number of dates since [1910s|1914] that the [Religion|Jehovah’s Witnesses] have predicted as the start of the [Apocalypse|apocalypse]

: 7

Estimated number of [Days|days] that [Russia|Russia’s] emergency [Food|food] reserve could feed the country

: 5

Value of each 20,000-yen government-issued “ [Shopping|shopping] voucher‚” to be received this year by 35 million [Japan|Japanese]

: $165

Price that [Manhattan|Manhattan’s] new [Basketball|NBA] boutique charges for a Waterford crystal vase engraved with an image of Larry Bird

: $8,000

Chance that an [Basketball|NBA] player has a toenail fungus

: 1 in 3

Number devoted to the [Baseball|baseball] career of Cal Ripken Jr.

: 339

Number of words devoted to [Recession|the Depression] in Houghton Mifflin’s [Education|fifth-grade] history book, Build Our Nation

: 332

Percentage of the U.S. [War|Defense Intelligence] Agency’s one-page biography of [Chile|Chile’s] [August|Augusto] Pinochet that is classified

: 90

Ratio of total U.S. [Disaster|disaster] aid to [Honduras|Honduras] last year to average annual U.S. [Business|military aid] to Honduras in the [1980s|1980s]

: 6:7

Number of [Boston|Boston] library workers who required [Suffering|counseling] last [Summer|summer] after a flood soaked 50,000 cartons of [Literature|books]

: 12

Percentage of the issue’s entire press run immediately pulped by the printer, for [Fear|fear] of breaking [Britain|British] [FreeSpeech|libel] laws

: 100
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