Number of [USPresident|U.S. presidents] since 1860 whose party controlled both houses of [Congress|Congress] by the third year of their first term
: 12Retail price Mattel suggests that toy stores assign its [Lingerie|Lingerie] [Barbie|Barbie], dressed in “merry widow” or “peek-a-boo” style
: $45Ratio of net profit earned by U.S. [AirTravel|airlines] since [1970s|1970] to federal subsidies given the industry since [September11|September 2001]
: 1:1Minimum number of box cutters taken from U.S. [AirTravel|airline] passengers since last [February|February]
: 34,777[Minutes|Minutes] that a [Massachusetts|Massachusetts] [Doctor|surgeon] left a patient with an open incision in [July|July] while he went to deposit a check
: 35Chance that a [Doctor|doctor] [Comedy|laughs] along with a patient’s laughter
: 1 in 10Chances that a [Doctor|doctor] shows no response
: 7 in 10Percentage of [GulfWar|Gulf War] [Veterans|veterans] reporting chronic postwar symptoms who share a single bacterial infection
: 40Minimum number of locals hired to act as [Arab|Arabs] heckling [USMilitary|U.S. troops] during an army war game in [California|California] last year
: 15Number of [Arab|Arabic] linguists fired by the [Army|U.S. Army] since [August|August] for being [Homosexuality|gay]
: 7Estimated number of people who have died there since then as a result
: 20,000Percentage change since [1990s|1990] in the number of U.S. school [Child|children] labeled “disabled”
: +37Percentage of U.S. high [Education|schools] receiving federal aid whose [Student|students’] contact information [Army|the army] sought last [Fall|fall]
: 100Average amount of aid each [Education|school] district stands to lose if its schools do not supply the information
: $762,083Page of the [Education|No Child Left Behind] education law passed last year on which this new requirement is noted
: 559Rank of [Schlock|Michael Moore’s] Stupid [Caucasian|White] [Men|Men] among the [NewYorkTimes|New York Times’s] top “[Business|business]” bestsellers in [September|September]
: 1Years after [Entertainment|rapper] Chuck D called [Elvis|Elvis Presley] “straight-out racist” that he claimed “a great deal of respect” for him
: 14Factor by which the number of Americans who have “tried to impersonate [Elvis|Elvis]” exceeds the population of [Tennessee|Tennessee]
: 3Rank of Mom, Dad, and [RudolphGiuliani|Rudolph Giuliani] among those whom recent [College|college] graduates say they most wish to emulate
: 1,2,3Chances that a U.S. adult does not want to live to be 120 under any circumstances
: 2 in 3Estimated number of [Women|women] [Murder|killed] as [Witch|witches] in [Tanzania|Tanzania] each year
: 500Number of these presidents whose party already controlled both houses
: 10Number whose bid for reelection failed
: 1Number of “third” parties whose candidates won state legislative seats last year
: 5Portion of the eight seats they won accounted for by Progressive Party candidates in [Vermont|Vermont]
: 1/2Number of U.S. states that use nonpartisan commissions to draw new [Congress|congressional] districts
: 6Number of [Louisiana|Louisiana’s] last three [Democracy|elected] [Insurance|insurance] commissioners convicted of [Corruption|corruption]
: 3Percentage change since [1990s|1998] in the number of federal convictions for [HealthCare|health-care] fraud
: +43Chance that a drug dose prescribed to a U.S. [Medicine|hospital] patient is either administered improperly or forgotten
: 1 in 5Chances that a [Rwanda|Rwandan] [Women|woman] [Rape|raped] during the [1990s|1994] [Genocide|genocide] is now [AIDS|HIV]-positive
: 2 in 3Years since [Crime|criminal] charges were filed against him in [1990s|1991] that Union Carbide’s former [CEO|CEO] has been in hiding
: 11Ratio of Americans [Murder|killed] by [Terrorism|Timothy McVeigh] and the D.C. snipers to those killed in [GulfWar|Gulf War] combat
: 5:4Ratio of kilotonnage of U.S. [WMD|bombs] dropped during the [GulfWar|Gulf War] to that of the [WWII|atomic bomb] dropped on [Japan|Hiroshima]
: 7:1Number of countries that supplied both sides during the [Iran|Iran]-[Iraq|Iraq] war
: 10Number of these that are among the world’s five largest [WarTactics|arms-manufacturing] countries
: 4Percentage of federal discretionary spending in 2001 devoted to “[HomelandSecurity|homeland security]” or the Department of [War|Defense]
: 51Percentage of the $1.1 trillion in [Iraq|Iraqi] [Oil|oil] [Corruption|contracts] that are held by [France|French] or [Russia|Russian] companies
: 69Price charged by a [Ukraine|Ukrainian] company for a half-day tour of the [Chernobyl|Chernobyl] [Nuclear|nuclear]-plant site
: $460Number of years that a former [Pollution|Union Carbide] factory in Bhopal, [India|India], has been leaking toxic chemicals
: 18