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Percentage of the 145 [Lawyer|lawyers] in the offices of [Houston|Houston’s] U.S. Attorney who were recused from the [Enron|Enron] case in [January|January]

: 100

Months after George H. W. [GeorgeHWBush|Bush] lost the [1990s|1992] [Democracy|election] that James Baker began lobbying [Kuwait|Kuwait] on [Enron|Enron’s] behalf

: 5

[Days|Days] before [Enron|Enron] declared [Bankruptcy|bankruptcy] that Baker’s public-policy institute awarded [AlanGreenspan|Alan Greenspan] its “Enron Prize”

: 19

Number of U.S. [Sport|professional-sports] stadiums whose [Business|corporate namesakes] have filed for [Bankruptcy|bankruptcy] since [December|December] [1990s|1999]

: 5

Number of [Boxing|boxers] who have died in the United States since [1970s|1970] from injuries sustained in the ring

: 53

Chances that a U.S. senator has received [Democracy|campaign] contributions from [Enron|Enron] since [1990s|1997]

: 3 in 5

Grams of [Nuclear|nuclear] waste per capita in the U.S., the U.K., and [Canada|Canada], respectively

: 7, 15, 50

Number of years a [Sheep|sheep] can remember another sheep’s face

: 2

Last date the “community [Freedom|right to know]” database on hazardous substances was available on the [EPA|EPA’s] [Internet|website]

: 9/20/01

Total [Democracy|voting] population of a Denton, [Texas|Texas], [Taxes|tax] district when a development plan was approved there in [1990s|1996]

: 1

Weeks before the vote that the resident was moved there by Dell [Computer|Computer] so that he could approve the plan

: 5

Total number of opposition candidates who ran for the 84 seats in [Singapore|Singapore’s] [Democracy|parliament] last [November|November]

: 24

Number of [Days|days] they were allowed to [Democracy|campaign]

: 9

Annual amount that Unilever’s acquisition deal with [Sweets|Ben & Jerry’s] requires it to donate to “social change” groups

: $1,100,000

Amount of its donation last year that was given to the Ruckus Society, which trains activists in civil disobedience

: $100,000

Number of [Sweden|Swedish] [Teenager|teenagers] [Justice|convicted] of lese majesty in [December|December] for hitting the king with a [Sweets|cream cake]

: 4

Total number of [Sweden|Swedish] officials hit by [Sweets|cream cakes] last year

: 3

Number of the world’s 25 [War|civil wars] that have been going on for more than ten years

: 17

Number of [Media|journalists] and [Army|U.S. soldiers], respectively, [Murder|killed] by hostile fire in [Afghanistan|Afghanistan] last year

: 7, 1

Number of these [Journalism|journalists] who were American

: 0

Percentage of Americans in [November|November] who believed the government was censoring news from the war in [Afghanistan|Afghanistan]

: 59

Percentage of these Americans who thought such [Censorship|censorship] was “a good idea”

: 80

Year in which a [Pentagon|Pentagon] report warned that banning chlorine sales to [Iraq|Iraq] would cause epidemics of waterborne [Disease|diseases]

: 1991

Maximum amount one Northern Alliance [Business|soldier] charged families of dead [Taliban|Taliban] soldiers for the return of their corpses

: $1,500

Estimated number of [Afghanistan|Afghan] civilians [War|killed] by U.S. bombing last year

: 3,950

Last year in which a country other than [Afghanistan|Afghanistan] was the world’s top source of [Refugee|refugees]

: 1980

Percentage change since [January|January] 2001 in the share price of the largest private [Prison|prison]-management [Business|company]

: +440

Weeks after [Italy|Italy] passed a new [Science|evidence]-restriction law that the prime minister tried to use it in his own defense

: 2

Minimum number of copies of a new [Bulgaria|Bulgarian] translation of [AdolfHitler|Mein Kampf] [Business|sold] last year

: 3,000

Amount the [UnitedStates|United States] spent in [1940s|1949] on international aid and diplomacy

: $66,400,000,000

Amount the [UnitedStates|United States] plans to spend on this in 2002

: $23,800,000,000

Percentage change since then in the number of [Child|births] of triplets, quadruplets, quintuplets, and sextuplets

: +448

Minimum number of [Iraq|Iraqis] who have died of such [Disease|diseases] since the ban was enacted in [1990s|1990]

: 100,000

Chance that a U.S. case of [AIDS|HIV] is resistant to at least one of the 16 anti-AIDS [Drugs|drugs] in use

: 1 in 2

Number of [LasVegas|Las Vegas] strip clubs purchased on [September|September] 10 by a [StanfordUniversity|Stanford] [Medicine|medical]-school professor

: 3

Chances that a [Entertainment|movie] released in the U.S. last year was [Pornography|pornographic]

: 9 in 10

Years by which the average life span of an [AcademyAwards|Oscar-winning] screenwriter is shorter than that of one merely nominated

: 3.6

Number of [IntellectualProperty|copyright]-violation notices sent to U.S. universities last year by a firm tracking [Student|students’] [Music|music] downloads

: 7,873

Percentage change since [1980s|1980] in the number of [Child|births of twins] in the U.S. each year

: +67
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