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Ratio of [Internet|eToys’] [1990s|1999] net [Business|sales] through last [September|September] to what it spent on [Advertising|marketing] and advertising

: 2:3

Ratio of the [Marriage|divorce] rate in [NewYork|New York State] in [1990s|1998] to the rate in [Arkansas|Arkansas]

: 2:3

Percentage of [NewYork|New Yorkers] who say they have already [Democracy|decided] which [Senate|Senate] candidate to vote for in [November|November]

: 92

Percentage change in the number of [Drugs|marijuana] arrests since [BillClinton|Bill Clinton] became president

: +56

Percentage change in [Colombia|Colombia’s] estimated [Drugs|cocaine] production since [1990s|1990]

: +154

Number of [Crime|kidnappings] reported in [Colombia|Colombia] in the first nine months of last year

: 2,283

[Hours|Hours] during which [Brazil|Rio de Janeiro] [Transportation|drivers] may [Law|legally] run red lights in order to avoid being carjacked

: 10 P.M.–5 A.M.

Maximum number of years to which a [Burma|Burmese] citizen may be [Justice|sentenced] for owning an unregistered [Technology|computer]

: 15

Percentage change in the [Finance|stock price] of [Microsoft|Microsoft] rival Red Hat in the five weeks after the antitrust ruling

: +218

Number of the 10 disputes involving [Pollution|environmental] or public heath issues that led to a weakening of national laws

: 10

Ratio of the price of a 30-second [Football|Super Bowl] ad to what [PizzaHut|Pizza Hut] paid last [Fall|fall] for an ad on a [Russia|Russian] [Space|space] rocket

: 2:1

[Seconds|Seconds] by which a “slingshot‚” maneuver performed by a [Space|NASA probe] last [August|August] slowed the Earth’s rotation

: 10^???12

Number of feet by which [Arctic|Arctic] sea [Ice|ice] has [GlobalWarming|thinned] since [1970s|1976]

: 4

Number of colonies of [Antarctica|Antarctic] Ad?lie [Penguin|penguins] that have disappeared since [1980s|1988]

: 11

Number of U.S. [Child|children] treated for [Sport|sledding] injuries in [1990s|1998]

: 46,067

Rank of self-inflicted wounds among the top injuries for which [Teenager|teenage] [Girl|girls] were [Medicine|hospitalized] in [NewYork|New York State] in [1990s|1998]

: 1

Rank of [Violence|assault] among the top causes of injuries for which [Teenager|teenage] [Boy|boys] were [Medicine|hospitalized] that year

: 1

Estimated profit earned by [NewYork|New York State] last year on collect calls made by [Prison|prisoners]

: $21,000,000

[Hours|Hours] it took a [Tennessee|Tennessee] jury last [December|December] to decide that the assassination of [MartinLutherKing|Martin Luther King] was a conspiracy

: 2

Number of the 65 international [Business|trade disputes] settled through the [WTO|WTO] that led to a change in national policy or [Law|law]

: 59

[Days|Days] after [China|China] announced it would begin acquiring offensive [Weapons|weapons] that it was accepted into the [WTO|WTO] last [Fall|fall]

: 7

Maximum range at which [China|China] North Industries’ new “portable laser disturber‚” can “injure or dizzy the eyes,‚” in miles

: 6

Estimated tons of high-performance [Terrorism|explosives] that the [Ireland|Irish Republican Army] must turn in by [May|May]

: 2.7

Percentage of [Chechnya|Chechnya’s] air force destroyed last [September|September] when [Russia|Russia] [War|bombed] a single [AirTravel|plane]

: 100

[Days|Days] after [Ukraine|Ukraine] reopened a [Nuclear|nuclear] reactor at [Chernobyl|Chernobyl] last [November|November] that a water leak forced a shutdown

: 6

Megawatts by which the world’s [Energy|nuclear-power] capacity changed during [1990s|1998]

: ???230

Megawatts by which the world’s [Energy|wind-power] capacity changed that year

: +2,200

Percentage increase since [1990s|1994] in annual federal spending on [Driving|highways] and mass [Transportation|transit], respectively

: 50, 33

Ratio of the number of Americans [Death|killed] in [Transportation|traffic] accidents in [1990s|1998] to the number killed by [Medicine|medical] errors

: 1:1

Number of [Africa|Africans] used to test a U.S. polio vaccine made with primate kidney cells in the [1950s|1950s]

: 1,000,000

Number of the 46 [Africa|Africans] [Science|found] to be [AIDS|HIV]-positive before [1980s|1981] who lived within 90 miles of the vaccine trials

: 45

Projected age to which the [AIDS|AIDS] epidemic will lower the life expectancy in sub-Saharan [Africa|Africa] by next year

: 45

Factor by which the pregnancy-related death rate among [AfricanAmerican|African-American women] exceeds that of [Caucasian|white] [Women|women]

: 3

Chance that an [AfricanAmerican|African American] believes that [Race|blacks] will never obtain equality in the U.S.

: 1 in 2

Years after [1990s|1993’s] [Child|Baby] Jessica custody ruling that both her [Parenting|birth parents] and her adoptive parents filed for [Marriage|divorce]

: 6

Chance that a [Drugs|drug] user holds a full-time [Jobs|job], according to a federal study released last year

: 7 in 10

Months after [GeorgeWBush|George W. Bush] became a candidate last year that the study was released

: 3

Number of the two memoirs published by [RepublicanParty|GOP] [Democracy|presidential] candidates last year that use the phrase “toga party‚”

: 2

Number of [Education|textbook] reproductions of _ [FoundingFathers|George Washington] Crossing the [Delaware|Delaware_] retouched by a [Georgia|Georgia] school last year

: 2,322

Number of [Parenting|parental] complaints that prompted the [Education|school] to decide that [FoundingFathers|Washington]’s watch fob resembled [Genitalia|genitalia]

: 0
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