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Number of [USPresident|U.S. presidents] since 1860 whose party controlled both houses of [Congress|Congress] by the third year of their first term

: 12

Retail price Mattel suggests that toy stores assign its [Lingerie|Lingerie] [Barbie|Barbie], dressed in “merry widow” or “peek-a-boo” style

: $45

Ratio of net profit earned by U.S. [AirTravel|airlines] since [1970s|1970] to federal subsidies given the industry since [September11|September 2001]

: 1:1

Minimum 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

: 35

Chance that a [Doctor|doctor] [Comedy|laughs] along with a patient’s laughter

: 1 in 10

Chances that a [Doctor|doctor] shows no response

: 7 in 10

Percentage of [GulfWar|Gulf War] [Veterans|veterans] reporting chronic postwar symptoms who share a single bacterial infection

: 40

Minimum number of locals hired to act as [Arab|Arabs] heckling [USMilitary|U.S. troops] during an army war game in [California|California] last year

: 15

Number of [Arab|Arabic] linguists fired by the [Army|U.S. Army] since [August|August] for being [Homosexuality|gay]

: 7

Estimated number of people who have died there since then as a result

: 20,000

Percentage change since [1990s|1990] in the number of U.S. school [Child|children] labeled “disabled”

: +37

Percentage of U.S. high [Education|schools] receiving federal aid whose [Student|students’] contact information [Army|the army] sought last [Fall|fall]

: 100

Average amount of aid each [Education|school] district stands to lose if its schools do not supply the information

: $762,083

Page of the [Education|No Child Left Behind] education law passed last year on which this new requirement is noted

: 559

Rank of [Schlock|Michael Moore’s] Stupid [Caucasian|White] [Men|Men] among the [NewYorkTimes|New York Times’s] top “[Business|business]” bestsellers in [September|September]

: 1

Years after [Entertainment|rapper] Chuck D called [Elvis|Elvis Presley] “straight-out racist” that he claimed “a great deal of respect” for him

: 14

Factor by which the number of Americans who have “tried to impersonate [Elvis|Elvis]” exceeds the population of [Tennessee|Tennessee]

: 3

Rank of Mom, Dad, and [RudolphGiuliani|Rudolph Giuliani] among those whom recent [College|college] graduates say they most wish to emulate

: 1,2,3

Chances that a U.S. adult does not want to live to be 120 under any circumstances

: 2 in 3

Estimated number of [Women|women] [Murder|killed] as [Witch|witches] in [Tanzania|Tanzania] each year

: 500

Number of these presidents whose party already controlled both houses

: 10

Number of “third” parties whose candidates won state legislative seats last year

: 5

Portion of the eight seats they won accounted for by Progressive Party candidates in [Vermont|Vermont]

: 1/2

Number of U.S. states that use nonpartisan commissions to draw new [Congress|congressional] districts

: 6

Number of [Louisiana|Louisiana’s] last three [Democracy|elected] [Insurance|insurance] commissioners convicted of [Corruption|corruption]

: 3

Percentage change since [1990s|1998] in the number of federal convictions for [HealthCare|health-care] fraud

: +43

Chance that a drug dose prescribed to a U.S. [Medicine|hospital] patient is either administered improperly or forgotten

: 1 in 5

Chances that a [Rwanda|Rwandan] [Women|woman] [Rape|raped] during the [1990s|1994] [Genocide|genocide] is now [AIDS|HIV]-positive

: 2 in 3

Years since [Crime|criminal] charges were filed against him in [1990s|1991] that Union Carbide’s former [CEO|CEO] has been in hiding

: 11

Ratio of Americans [Murder|killed] by [Terrorism|Timothy McVeigh] and the D.C. snipers to those killed in [GulfWar|Gulf War] combat

: 5:4

Ratio of kilotonnage of U.S. [WMD|bombs] dropped during the [GulfWar|Gulf War] to that of the [WWII|atomic bomb] dropped on [Japan|Hiroshima]

: 7:1

Number of countries that supplied both sides during the [Iran|Iran]-[Iraq|Iraq] war

: 10

Number of these that are among the world’s five largest [WarTactics|arms-manufacturing] countries

: 4

Percentage of federal discretionary spending in 2001 devoted to “[HomelandSecurity|homeland security]” or the Department of [War|Defense]

: 51

Percentage of the $1.1 trillion in [Iraq|Iraqi] [Oil|oil] [Corruption|contracts] that are held by [France|French] or [Russia|Russian] companies

: 69

Price charged by a [Ukraine|Ukrainian] company for a half-day tour of the [Chernobyl|Chernobyl] [Nuclear|nuclear]-plant site

: $460

Number of years that a former [Pollution|Union Carbide] factory in Bhopal, [India|India], has been leaking toxic chemicals

: 18
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