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Number of last year’s top ten [Money|soft-money] donors that contributed to both [Democracy|major parties]

: 6

Number of the 614 arrests of [Democracy|protesters] at last year’s presidential conventions that have led to [Crime|criminal convictions]

: 4

Change since [1980s|1981] in [Minutes|minutes] per day devoted to [Education|homework] by Americans between nine and eleven years old

: +9

[Hours|Hours] during which free speech is permitted in [Singapore|Singapore’s] Hong Lim Park

: 7 a.m.???7 p.m.

Percentage change since [1990s|1990] in corporate contributions to [Japan|Japan’s] political parties

: ???68

Amount [Florida|Florida] state [Jobs|employees] donated to the [GeorgeWBush|Bush] campaign last year for every dollar they donated to [AlGore|Gore]

: $4.92

Percentage of [FDA|FDA] advisory meetings since [1990s|1998] in which at least one attendee had a financial conflict of interest

: 92

Total number of [Hours|hours] spent on [Congress|congressional] hearings investigating [Violence|violence] in [Entertainment|entertainment] since [May|May] [1990s|1999]

: 16

Amount the [Army|U.S. Army] plans to pay the [Entertainment|entertainment] industry this year to develop [Education|training] videos for combat

: $45,000,000

Ratio of public [Housing|housing] units built in [Judaism|Jewish] communities in [Israel|Israel] since [1970s|1975] to those built in [Arab|Arab] communities

: 337:1

Ratio of [Britain|Britain’s] per capita [HealthCare|health-care] spending to that of [Cuba|Cuba]

: 11:1

Number of [Britain|British] [Medicine|doctors] who visited [Cuba|Cuba] last [March|March] to study its [HealthCare|health-care] system

: 115

Rank of dissatisfaction with the level of “support from supervisors or colleagues”

: 1

Rank of repetitive motion among factors that correlate with [Suffering|forearm pain] among workers

: 2

Average annual number of [Sex|male clients] served in America in [1990s|1999] by each [Women|female] [Prostitute|prostitute]

: 694

Number of [WMD|land mines] per square mile left behind in southern [Lebanon|Lebanon] by [Israel|Israeli] forces when they withdrew last [May|May]

: 376

Ratio of [NewYorkCity|New York City] residents who died of West Nile virus in [1990s|1999] to those who died of [Disease|pneumonia or influenza]

: 1:619

Number of laws or provisions that require U.S. [Oil|oil] companies to produce more heating oil in response to a shortage

: 0

Percentage of [Kuwait|Kuwait] ‘s freshwater supply still [Pollution|contaminated] with [Oil|oil] spilled by [Iraq|Iraqi] forces during the [GulfWar|Gulf War]

: 40

Percentage change in the maximum size of the [GlobalWarming|ozone hole] between [1990s|1999] and 2000

: +17

Factor by which the mass of a [Space|black hole] at the center of the Milky Way galaxy exceeds the mass of the [Sun|sun]

: 2,600,000

Ratio of the record distance for human [Space|space] [AirTravel|flight] to the maximum distance depicted in 2001: A Space Odyssey

: 1:1,642

Number of high-tech start-ups funded with venture capital provided by the [CIA|CIA] since [1990s|1999]

: 8

Percentage change since [1990s|1990] in the U.S. [Technology|industrial-robot] population

: +138

[Days|Days] after [AlGore|Al Gore’s] [Child|birth] in [1940s|1948] that the States’ Rights Party nominated Senator [StromThurmond|Strom Thurmond] for president

: 108

Rank of [StromThurmond|Thurmond], as senior majority senator, among those within a [Heart|heartbeat] of the presidency

: 3

Year in which the levered [Democracy|voting machines] used in some precincts last [November|November] were invented

: 1892

Percentage of the [G-8|G-8] countries’ combined [MilitaryIndustrialComplex|military budgets] it would take to halve the world’s TB cases by 2010

: 0.4

Ratio of [Zambia|Zambia’s] foreign-[Finance|debt] payments in [1990s|1999] to what it is projected to pay this year under proposed debt relief

: 2:3

Percentage of the U.S. budget devoted to foreign developmental aid in [1960s|1962] and 2000, respectively

: 3, 0.5

Years that the [UnitedStates|United States] spent fighting Lori Berenson’s life sentence in [Peru|Peru] before she won a retrial last [Fall|fall]

: 5

Years that [Mexico|Mexico] spent fighting a [Texas|Texas] [DeathPenalty|death sentence] given one of its citizens before his execution last [Fall|fall]

: 9

Chances that the rate in a state without the [Death|death penalty] was lower than the national average

: 5 in 6

Chance that the [Murder|murder] rate in a [DeathPenalty|death-penalty] state was lower in [1990s|1998] than the national average

: 1 in 2

Number of studies showing that the [DeathPenalty|death penalty] is a deterrent, according to [Lawyer|Attorney] General [JanetReno|Janet Reno]

: 0

Estimated number of Americans im[Prison|prisoned] in prolonged solitary confinement

: 20,000

Estimated number of Americans who have ever belonged to a nonprofessional [SelfHelp|self]-help group

: 25,000,000

Chance that an American who visited an emergency room for a [Medicine|shuffleboard injury] that year was a [SeniorCitizen|senior citizen]

: 1 in 2

Average age of a new U.S. [Parenting|grandparent] in [1990s|1999]

: 47
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