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Number of years [Communism|Karl Marx] spent writing opinion pieces for the New York Daily Tribune before publishing _ [Labor|Das Kapital] _

: 10

Number of [PopulationControl|condoms] to be requisitioned per day to each [UnitedNations|U.N. peacekeeper] deployed in [Congo|Congo] and [SierraLeone|Sierra Leone] this year

: 1

Number of “[Marriage|marriage] studies‚” majors learning “the [Art|art] of [Folly|getting and staying married] ‚” last term at a [Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania] [College|college]

: 8

Number of [Japan|Japanese] couples who used [DollyTheSheep|Dolly the cloned sheep] in their [Marriage|wedding] photo before [Science|researchers] ended the practice

: 1

Weeks before [Peru|Peru] ‘s national [Democracy|election] last [April|April] that President Alberto Fujimori raised the [Labor|minimum wage] by 18 percent

: 4

Number of [Immigration|immigrants] [Japan|Japan] would require in order to maintain its present workforce through the year 2050

: 30,450,000

Number of residents of [India|India] without access to fresh drinking water for every [Internet|Internet] user there

: 115

Percentage change since [1990s|1992] in the average [Poverty|household income] of the lowest-paid fifth of [SiliconValley|Silicon Valley] workers

: ???2.7

Number of years after the term “confidence [Men|man]‚” was coined in 1849 that the word “ [Labor|industrialist] ‚” was introduced

: 15

Number of times that [USPresident|U.S. president] Zachary Taylor had ever [Democracy|voted] in a presidential election before taking office in 1849

: 0

Years after the [Potato|Great Potato Famine] began that [Britain|Britain] loosened its land-ownership requirements for [Ireland|Irish] voters

: 5

Ratio of the amount Americans spent on [Potato|potato chips] in [1990s|1996] to spending on federal [Democracy|political campaigns] that year

: 2:1

[Hours|Hours] of [Cookery|cooking] required to remove the “toxins‚” from tomatoes, according to an 1860 [Women|women’s] [Magazine|magazine]

: 3

Minimum number of [Animal|aquatic species] carried in ship ballasts to new ecosystems on any given day

: 3,000

Estimated acres of [Agriculture|topsoil] eroded worldwide each year

: 3,700,000,000

Number of the 155 U.S. [Magazine|magazines] published in 1850 that are published today

: 13

Portion of the 19th century it took [Russia|Russia] to [Imperialism|conquer] the Chechens

: 1/2

Number of “[Psychiatry|psychological] operations‚” specialists that the [Army|U.S. Army] sent to work for [Media|CNN] last year

: 5

Average number of U.S. news stories about [Cuba|Elian Gonzalez] published or aired each day of the first 5 months of his stay here

: 222

Estimated ratio of [Immigration|immigrants] arriving in the U.S. in the 1890s to the number returning home during that period

: 3:2

Points by which the percentage of U.S. [Immigration|residents] born abroad has changed since 1850

: ???0.4

Points by which the percentage of [Race|Americans of African descent] has changed since then

: ???2.8

Estimated percentage change in the [NativeAmerican|Native American] population of [California|California] during the 1850s

: ???65

Portion of [California|California’s] revenue between 1852 and 1870 composed of [Taxes|taxes] paid by [China|Chinese] laborers

: 1/2

Estimated number of “river [Piracy|pirates]” operating on [NewYorkCity|New York City’s] waterfront in 1850

: 500

Portion of [BodyofWater|rivers] in the mid-Atlantic U.S. whose water levels set record lows last [Summer|summer]

: 3/4

Year in which “sold down the river‚” entered the American lexicon

: 1850

Average amount spent on direct [Propaganda|advertising] to U.S. [Child|children] in [1980s|1983] and [1990s|1998], respectively, per child

: $2.68, $36.60

Chances that a 19th century “ [Drugs|opium-eater] ‚” in [Albany|Albany], [NewYork|New York], was a [Women|woman]

: 4 in 5

Chance that the [Marriage|husband] in a two-income U.S. household earns less than his wife

: 1 in 3

Rank of [Holiday|Father’s Day] among [Days|days] on which the largest number of [Telephone|collect calls] are made in the U.S.

: 1

Number of [CharlesDarwin|Charles Darwin’s] [Child|children] who became [Science|eugenicists]

: 1

Years after becoming a [Religion|priest] that [Genetics|Gregor Mendel] completed the work that would earn him the title [Fatherhood|father] of [Science|genetics]

: 16

Price an [Illinois|Illinois] company charges for a pen embedded with [AbrahamLincoln|Abraham Lincoln’s] “genetic essence‚”

: $1,650

Ratio of the average 1850 price in [Texas|Texas] of a healthy [Men|male] [Slavery|slave] to that of 200 acres of prime [Agriculture|farmland]

: 1:1

Amount Shell [Oil|Oil] paid last year to sponsor the [Marriage|wedding] reception of the King of Buganda, [Uganda|Uganda]

: $3,000

Price a year earlier

: $3.87

Price of a gallon of [Energy|gas] in the [Britain|United Kingdom] last [April|April]

: $4.84

Estimated barrels of [Oil|oil] illegally exported by [Iraq|Iraq] last year

: 8,100,000

Estimated minimum value of the diamonds [Business|sold] to De Beers by [Angola|Angolan] rebels since [1990s|1992]

: $1,000,000,000
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