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Ratio of the [Insurance|insurance] industry’s U.S. political contributions last year to those of the legal profession

: 2:5

Chance that a patient given a [PrescriptionDrugs|placebo] in one impotence-drug trial reported an [Sex|erection]

: 1 in 3

Percentage of [Medicine|doctors] at a [NewYorkCity|New York City] hospital who report often not knowing the cost of the drugs they prescribe

: 80

Percentage change in the annual number of [CatholicFaith|Roman Catholic] [Religion|priests] ordained in [Brooklyn|Brooklyn] and [Queens|Queens] since [1980s|1980]

: -92

Number of [CatholicFaith|Catholics] who received penance at a weekend-long “confess-a-thon” held in [WashingtonDC|Washington, D.C.], last [Fall|fall]

: 22,000

Chances that a [Age|young] [AfricanAmerican|black man] living in [California|Los Angeles’s] Watts neighborhood is [Jobs|unemployed] or in [Prison|prison]

: 7 in 10

Chances that an [Alabama|Alabama] voter [Democracy|voted] against legalizing [Marriage|marriage] between [Race|blacks and whites] last [November|November]

: 2 in 5

Percentage change since [1980s|1987] in the [Fish|jellyfish] population off [Louisiana|Louisiana’s] coast

: +400

Number of “prefectures…east of the mountains…growing nothing but thorns,” according to poet Tu Fu

: 200

Number of [Literature|poets] scheduled to attend a literary conference in [China|China] last year before the government banned it

: 200

Maximum number of people who may [Law|legally] congregate [Nature|outdoors] in [Burma|Burma] without government authorization

: 5

Minimum annual “[Child|baby] bonus” that the government of [Singapore|Singapore] pays couples who have a second child

: $500

Ratio of the number of people who died of famine in [NorthKorea|North Korea] since [1990s|1993] to the current population of its capital

: 1:3

Estimated percentage of the U.S. [Corn|corn] supply now [Pollution|contaminated] with genetically engineered StarLink corn

: 20

Year in which the maker of genetically engineered StarLink [Corn|corn] [Mendacity|promised] the [EPA|EPA] it would be fed only to [Animal|animals]

: 1998

Year in which [ColinPowell|Colin Powell] complained, “I’m running out of villains. I’m down to [FidelCastro|Castro] and Kim Il Sung”

: 1991

Amount this represents as a percentage of [USMilitary|U.S. military] aid pledged to [Colombia|Colombia] last year

: 578

Chance that an [Democracy|election] held in [1990s|1999] had such problems

: 1 in 5

Rank of the [DemocraticParty|Democratic Party] and Nike, respectively, among sixty brand names tested for customer loyalty in [1990s|1999]

: 53, 4

Rank of the [RepublicanParty|Republican Party]

: 60

Average number of brand-name items requested per [Shopping|shopping] trip by a U.S. [Child|child] between the ages of four and twelve

: 14

Weeks that a [Massachusetts|Massachusetts] [Education|school] prohibited a [Boy|boy] from cross-dressing last [Fall|fall] before a judge overturned the [Law|ban]

: 13

Number of [Vice|Hooters girls] who visited a [Teenager|teenage] [Disease|leukemia] patient in a [Philadelphia|Philadelphia] [Medicine|hospital] last [Fall|fall] at his request

: 3

Estimated number of minors held in U.S. [Prison|prisons] in [1990s|1998] without segregation from adult inmates

: 3,700

Number of [Florida|Floridian] ex-cons denied the [Freedom|right] to [Democracy|vote] last [November|November] because of felony convictions

: 525,000

Number of times a [Florida|Floridian] can be [Justice|convicted] of DUI before the infraction becomes a felony

: 3

Minimum number of limo rides illegally charged to the [PostalService|U.S. Postal Service] by nine of its executives since [June|June] [1990s|1996]

: 520

Pages of documents related to [Race|racial profiling] by [NewJersey|New Jersey] State [Policing|Police] released by the state last year

: 91,000

Pages of [Haiti|Haitian] government documents that the [UnitedStates|United States] has held since seizing them from the country in [1990s|1994]

: 160,000

Number of years after fleeing [Haiti|Haiti] in [1990s|1995] that death-squad leader Toto Constant was selling real estate in [NewYorkCity|New York City]

: 5

Estimated amount of [Colombia|Colombian] [Drugs|drug] [Money|money] laundered each year via purchases of U.S. goods and services

: $3,000,000,000

Estimated percentage of [Army|U.S. Army] troops deployed in [Bosnia|Bosnia] who will be replaced by National Guardsmen in 2002

: 50

Score shouted by [SupremeCourt|Justice] [AntoninScalia|Antonin Scalia] at a [WashingtonDC|Washington, D.C.], [Sport|tennis] court in [1990s|1998] before claiming victory

: 5???4!

Percentage of [Women|women] who chose [AlGore|Al Gore] or [GeorgeWBush|George Bush] from among last year’s [Democracy|presidential] nominees to be their [ValentinesDay|valentine]

: 40

Percentage who refused to choose

: 44

Rank of assertiveness among qualities the American [Psychiatry|Psychological] Association cites as most common to great presidents

: 6

Number of articles [Media|published] since [1990s|1998] containing the words “[GeorgeWBush|George W. Bush]” and “aura of inevitability”

: 350
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