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Amount a nonprofit U.S. [RepublicanParty|conservative] group pays [Drugs|drug-addicted] [Women|women] to undergo sterilization

: $200

Year in which “idiot,” “fool,” and “nitwit” were removed from [Microsoft|Microsoft] Word’s [Language|thesaurus]

: 2000

Date of an [Magazine|Economist] correction [Justice|apologizing] for ever implying that President [GeorgeWBush|Bush] was [Democracy|elected]

: 11/17/01

Minimum number of [Anger|physical assaults] made on [Russia|Russian] [Journalism|journalists] in 2000

: 60

Minimum number of [Crime|criminal] defamation lawsuits pending against [Journalism|journalists] and cartoonists by [Panama|Panamanian] officials

: 81

Change since [1990s|1990] in the number of hotel rooms in [Cuba|Cuba]

: +22,400

Percentage of hotel rooms in [Cuba|Cuba] in hotels awarded a four- or five-star rating by the Cuban Ministry of [Entertainment|Tourism]

: 65

Total annualized percentage return on [NewYorkCity|New York City’s] [Finance|stock markets] on perfectly [Sun|sunny] [Days|days] between [1980s|1982] and [1990s|1997]

: +25

Total annualized percentage return on perfectly cloudy [Days|days] during that period

: +9

Percentage change in a state’s consumption of [Alcohol|alcohol] for every one percent its unemployment rises

: ???3

Year in which Bayer [IntellectualProperty|trademarked] “[Heroin|Heroin]”

: 1898

Number of [Women|women] who have accepted such payments since [1990s|1997]

: 567

Estimated number of [FDA|FDA]-approved prescription medications on the U.S. market

: 10,000

Percentage of all U.S. prescription-drug mass-[Media|media] [Advertising|advertising] in 2000 that was accounted for by 50 drugs

: 95

Percentage increase since [1990s|1999] in the number of prescriptions for these 50 drugs and all other drugs, respectively

: 25, 4

Estimated number of [Medicine|appendectomies] performed each year on Americans without appendicitis

: 40,000

Minimum percentage of votes in each [NewYorkCity|New York City] [Democracy|election] since [1980s|1988] not counted due to mechanical or human error

: 3

Percentage of votes by which Michael Bloomberg won the city’s mayoralty last [Fall|fall]

: 2.3

Number of [May|May] Day [Democracy|demonstrators] the city prosecuted last [June|June] for “masquerading in public”

: 12

Percentage of Americans [Ignorance|who believe] that U.S. [Islam|Muslims] have an “obligation to help authorities track down [Terrorism|terrorists]”

: 60

Number of attendees at a [WashingtonDC|Washington, D.C.], conference that month entitled “What if [Congress|Congress] Were Obliterated?”

: 60

Amount the [Pentagon|Pentagon] has paid a [WashingtonDC|Washington] P.R. firm since then to help sway [Democracy|public] opinion abroad

: $7,100,000

Minimum amount the [SaudiArabia|Saudi] government spent last [Fall|fall] on multi-page U.S. print ads touting King Fahd

: $3,200,000

Percentage of [Oil|oil] imported by the U.S. last year that came from [MiddleEast|Persian Gulf countries]

: 23

Percentage that came from [Canada|Canada] and [Mexico|Mexico]

: 27

Ratio of U.S. [Democracy|public] high [Education|schools] named after [AbrahamLincoln|Abraham Lincoln] to those named after Jefferson Davis

: 11:1

Estimated number of acres of [CivilWar|Civil War] battlefield that were lost to development last year

: 50,000

Estimated number of U.S. cluster bomblets dropped on [Afghanistan|Afghanistan] last [Fall|fall] that remain unexploded

: 5,000

Ratio of bodies dug from [Kosovo|Kosovo’s] mass graves since [1990s|1999] to people [Terrorism|killed] in the [September11|September 11] [SuicideBombing|attacks]

: 1:1

Pages of [RonaldReagan|Reagan White House] archives to be kept from the public indefinitely by order of [GeorgeWBush|President Bush] last [October|October]

: 68,000

Last year in which there was a decrease in [Race|racial-profiling] claims made against U.S. [AirTravel|airport] [HomelandSecurity|security]

: 1998

Ratio of the number of such claims made last year before [September11|September 11] to those made in all of 2000

: 2:1

Chance that a U.S. resident has a valid U.S. passport

: 1 in 5

Chances that a resident of Florence, [Arizona|Arizona], is living in [Prison|prison]

: 3 in 4

Number by which a new [Science|study] claims that [Media|media] estimates of the U.S. [Islam|Muslim] population are inflated

: 3,200,000

Estimated number of weeks after [September11|September 11] that the American [Judaism|Jewish] Committee sponsored the study

: 1

Percentage of [Media|Newsweek’s] [September|September] health issue that was sponsored by a pharmaceutical lobbying group

: 100

Rank of the [CocaCola|Coca-Cola] Company among [Africa|Africa’s] largest private-sector [Jobs|employers]

: 1
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