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Percentage of federal returns audited last year that were filed by [Poverty|poor] Americans seeking Earned Income [Taxes|Tax] Credits

: 44

Chances that the [Taxes|taxes] of a low-income working American [Family|family] will not be reduced by the [GeorgeWBush|Bush] tax [Folly|plan]

: 3 in 5

Number of years ago that new [Energy|energy] secretary Spencer Abraham cosponsored a bill to abolish the Department of Energy

: 2

[Days|Days] before leaving office that [BillClinton|Clinton] revoked the order

: 23

[Hours|Hours] after taking office in [1990s|1993] that [BillClinton|Bill Clinton] ordered a five-year delay on lobbying by ex-White House officials

: 1

Amount by which federal [Taxes|taxes] paid in states carried by [GeorgeWBush|George W. Bush] fell short of federal spending in them, per capita

: $645

Amount by which federal [Taxes|taxes] paid in states carried by [AlGore|Al Gore] in 2000 exceeded federal spending in them, per capita

: $685

Federal income [Taxes|taxes] paid by [PepsiCola|PepsiCo] in [1990s|1999]

: 0

Percentage change between [1990s|1999] and 2000 in the number of [Taxes|audits] of U.S. [Business|corporations]

: ???28

Percentage of [SanFrancisco|San Francisco] [ClassicalMusic|Opera] [Jobs|employees] who claim to have been sickened by theatrical fog or smoke

: 39

Blocks separating [MonicaLewinsky|Lewinsky’s] [Housing|apartment] from [BillClinton|Bill Clinton] ‘s [Harlem|Harlem] office

: 135

Rank of Oasis singer [RockMusic|Liam Gallagher] among public figures most reviled by [Britain|Britons]

: 3

Rank of [SlobodanMilosevic|Slobodan Milosevic] and [AdolfHitler|Adolf Hitler], respectively

: 2,1

Estimated percentage of [Immigration|immigrants] to [Israel|Israel] from former [Russia|Soviet] states since [1990s|1998] who were not [Judaism|Jewish] by birth

: 60

Percentage change since [1980s|1980] in [Religion|church] contributions made per member to 29 major [Christianity|Protestant] denominations

: +40

Percentage change since then in the average amount per member these [Religion|churches] allocated to [Charity|charitable] work

: +10

Price paid on eBay last [December|December] for an eight-week internship at Marie Claire

: $3,575

Chance that a [Television|TV] character engaging in [Sex|sexual] intercourse during the [1990s|1997]-98 season was a [Teenager|teenager]

: 1 in 33

Percentage of U.S. [Education|high school] [Sex|sex-ed] teachers who say that [Folly|abstinence] is the only [BirthControl|birth-control] method they cover

: 23

Percentage of U.S. [Men|men] who say they have neglected their [Sex|sex] lives because of consumer electronics

: 8

Number of tries it took a blind [NorthDakota|North Dakota] [Men|man] to pass a shooting test in [Fall|fall] 2000 before receiving a [Gun|gun] permit

: 2

Number of [Fire|fire] stations in Columbia, [Tennessee|Tennessee], cited for fire-code violations in [January|January]

: 5

Blocks separating [KennethStarr|Kenneth Starr’s] [NewYorkCity|New York] University Law School office from [MonicaLewinsky|Monica Lewinsky’s] [Housing|apartment]

: 7

Chance that an American’s _ [Medicine|Streptoccocus pneumoniae] _ infection is resistant to penicillin

: 1 in 4

Tons of [Medicine|antibiotics] and antimicrobials given to healthy U.S. [Agriculture|farm animals] each year

: 12,500

Tons of [Food|food] suitable for human consumption wasted in the [UnitedStates|United States] each year

: 48,000,000

Number of people protesting genetically engineered [Agriculture|crops] who occupied a [Monsanto|Monsanto] [Agriculture|farm] in [Brazil|Brazil] on [January|January] 26

: 1,300

Square miles of [Canada|Quebec City] to be enclosed with chain-link fencing during a free-trade meeting there this month

: 2

Pounds of paper used to produce 400 hard copies of [NewYorkCity|New York City’s] report on the Fresh Kills landfill’s closing

: 14,800

Declared value of the [Jewelry|jewelry] [Crime|stolen] from [Entertainment|rapper] Prodigy last [December|December] after he left a [Music|music]-video shoot in [NewYorkCity|Queens]

: $343,000

Minimum number of stuffed [Animal|lions] that [Pakistan|Pakistan]’s recently ousted prime minister took with him into exile last year

: 2

Number of [Business|soldiers] discharged from the [USMilitary|U.S. military] for [Diet|obesity] during the [1990s|1990s]

: 41,799

Average number of people [War|killed] in Laos each year since [1970s|1973] by U.S. bombs left over from the [VietnamWar|Vietnam War]

: 28

Years before a [Britain|British] official was [Murder|killed] in Athens last [Winter|winter] that a [CIA|CIA] bureau chief was killed there with the same [Gun|gun]

: 25

Minimum number of such accidents, according to a U.S. [GAO|General Accounting Office] report

: 233

Number of accidents involving U.S. [Nuclear|nuclear] arms between [1950s|1950] and [1980s|1980], according to the [Pentagon|Pentagon]

: 32

Percentage of U.S. [Nuclear|nuclear] [Energy|power] plants operating in [1990s|1996] that have since broken federal safety regulations

: 92

Gallons per day that the proposed [Oil|drilling] of [Alaska|Alaska’s] [Arctic|Arctic] National Wildlife Refuge is projected to yield

: 42,000,000

Gallons by which daily U.S. [Oil|oil] consumption would drop if [Transportation|SUVs’] average fuel efficiency increased by 3 mpg

: 49,000,000
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