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Amount the world has spent since [1970s|1977] on licensed [Entertainment|Star Wars] merchandise

: $4,500,000,000

Number of the [Pentagon|Pentagon’s] 9 [Transportation|Stealth] [Weapons|bombers] that have ever been deployed in combat

: 0

Additional number of [Weapons|bombers] that are being built

: 12

[Money|Expenditures] for which the [Pentagon|Pentagon] could not account last year

: $22,000,000,000

Amount the [Pentagon|Pentagon] will spend this year on its Ballistic [Missile|Missile] Defense or “star wars‚” program

: $4,166,000,000

Number of U.S. [Business|companies and groups] licensed to sell merchandise bearing the [Vatican|Vatican’s] Jubilee 2000 logo

: 31

Number of pages of instructions provided

: 1

Chance that a U.S. [Abortion|abortion] clinic suffered a severely violent [Terrorism|attack] from protesters last year

: 1 in 4

Number of [Education|Ivy League] egg “donors‚” that [Parenting|Options Fertility Registry’s] school [Media|newspaper] ads have found since [1990s|1997]

: 18

Percentage of [Iceland|Iceland’s] gene pool to which Decode Genetics plans to acquire exclusive [Business|commercial] rights this year

: 100

Number of [Agriculture|farmers] that [Monsanto|Monsanto] has investigated for “seed [Piracy|piracy] ‚” since [1990s|1997]

: 500

Number of times a [Florida|Florida] [Fox|Fox-TV] station asked 2 reporters to rewrite a news story on [Monsanto|Monsanto] in [1990s|1997]

: 83

Amount the [Media|station] offered the [Journalism|reporters] to quit their [Jobs|jobs] and keep silent after the news story was killed

: $151,250

Ratio of Americans who say they trust [Television|TV] [Media|news] [Magazine|magazines] to those who say they trust print news magazines

: 2:1

Ratio of those who say they trust local [Television|TV] news to those who say they trust C-Span

: 2:1

Miles per hour at which a [NewYorkCity|New York] [Television|TV] station clocked a [Policing|police] van [Driving|driving] Mayor [RudolphGiuliani|Rudolph Giuliani] to [Lunch|lunch] last year

: 75

[NewYorkCity|] Portion of [Sport|Yankee Stadium] tickets for last year’s World Series games that were available to the public

: 1/6

Portion of [Senate|Senate] gallery seats during the impeachment trial last [Winter|winter] that were

: 1/8

Distance in miles between the [Education|Stanford] dorm room of [ChelseaClinton|Chelsea Clinton] and that of Carolyn Starr, daughter of [KennethStarr|Kenneth]

: 0.7

Length, in pages, of the letter [BillClinton|Linda Tripp] distributed last [Winter|winter] soliciting donations to her legal defense fund

: 12

Number of Americans who have made a donation

: 20,000

Maximum number of pages of [Taxes|tax] forms an American was required to fill out in [1910s|1913]

: 3

Number of the 9 [Prison|prison] [Jobs|employees] named in the [CivilRights|women’s] lawsuit who were charged with a [Crime|crime]

: 0

Number of federally maintained [Transportation|bridges] of which the Department of Transportation has no record

: 4,770

Chance that the annual median flow of an unfettered U.S. stream is greater than it was 50 years ago

: 1 in 3

Estimated percentage of [AquaticLife|coral reefs] in the [IndianOcean|Indian Ocean] [Death|killed] by [GlobalWarming|rising sea temperatures] last year

: 85

Chance that an American believes a manmade [Disaster|disaster] will destroy civilization in the next century

: 1 in 2

Estimated percentage of all [AIDS|AIDS] [Death|deaths] since [1980s|1980] that took place in [Africa|Africa]

: 83

Number of people who died in [Policing|police] custody in [Africa|South Africa] last year

: 758

Maximum number reported to have died in custody during any year under apartheid

: 200

Settlement paid 3 [Women|female] [Justice|federal] [Prison|inmates] last year after guards [Business|sold] them as [Sex|sex] [Slavery|slaves] to [Men|male] prisoners

: $500,000

Change in the value of Ross Perot’s portfolio on the day one of his companies went public last [February|February]

: +$882,112,600

Chance that an American born today will spend time in [Prison|jail]

: 1 in 20

Chance that a [Mexico|Mexican] [Animal|gray wolf] released into the [Arizona|Arizona] [Wilderness|wilderness] last [Spring|spring] has been shot

: 1 in 2

Estimated change since [1990s|1997] in attendance at America’s top 50 [Entertainment|theme parks]

: ???2,000,000

Estimated attendance at a rally for [Finance|debt] relief for [Poverty|poor countries] held outside [Britain|Britain’s] [1990s|1998] [G-7|G-7] summit

: 60,000

Percentage of [Chile|Chile’s] spending on its privatized [SeniorCitizen|pension] system that goes toward administration

: 13

Percentage of spending last year on the U.S. [SocialSecurity|Social Security] system that did

: 1

Factor by which U.S. [Finance|stock market] growth must exceed [GDP|GDP] growth for [SocialSecurity|Social Security] stock investment to work

: 5

Number of years since [1900s|1900] in which this has occurred

: 13
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