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Ratio of the weight of a [Diet|croissant] at an Au Bon Pain to that of a typical croissant at a [Paris|Parisian] bakery

: 2:1

Holes of [Sport|golf] that [Japan|Japan’s] prime minister played after learning of [February|February’s] fatal collision of a [Fishing|fishing] boat and a U.S. sub

: 3

Average duration of a [Japan|Japanese] prime minister’s tenure since [August|August] [1990s|1993], in months

: 16

Estimated number of blank ballots cast in [Dissent|protest] during [Israel|Israel’s] national [Democracy|election] in [February|February]

: 56,000

[Days|Days] before the [Democracy|election] that the [Israel|Israeli] [SupremeCourt|supreme court] rejected a request that blank ballots be counted

: 4

Amount [Iraq|Iraq] pledged last [December|December] to support the [Palestine|Palestinian] Intifada

: $930,000,000

Amount [Iraq|Iraq] pledged in [January|January] to aid “[Poverty|poor] Americans”

: $93,000,000

Estimated number of Americans who are eligible for [Food|food] stamps but have not applied

: 12,400,000

Average number of [Diet|pounds] gained by an international [Student|student] during his or her first ten weeks in the U.S.

: 2

Average number of [Minutes|minutes] devoted to [BillClinton|President Clinton] during each of his first 50 [Days|days] in office

: 18.04

Ratio of per capita Ritalin use in [Vermont|Vermont] to per capita use in [California|California]

: 3:1

Concentration of over-the-counter painkillers, in parts per billion, detected in [Missouri|Missouri’s] Blue River last [February|February]

: 0.98

Percentage of the [Energy|electrical] supply of the U.S. and [Canada|Canada], respectively, that is produced by dams

: 10, 62

Percentage of the [UnitedStates|United States’] 77,000 dams that are equipped with [Energy|hydroelectric] generating stations

: 3

Performance of the [Panama|Panama] Canal Authority last year, on a scale of one to ten, according to its advisory board’s chair

: 12

Performance of [Entertainment|Ricky Martin] in [Sex|bed], on a scale of one to ten, according to his new [Girl|girlfriend]

: 20

Age range in which a hetero[Sex|sexual] U.S. [Men|man] is most likely to acknowledge having once had a homosexual experience

: 50???65

Age range in which a heterosexual U.S. [Women|woman] is most likely to acknowledge this

: 18???29

Number of [Medicine|medical] scholarships that [Cuba|Cuba] announced it would offer U.S. minorities next year

: 500

Average number of [Minutes|minutes] devoted to [GeorgeWBush|President Bush] on [Media|network evening news] during each of his first 50 [Days|days] in office

: 9.24

Years after the [JohnMcCain|McCain]-Feingold [Democracy|campaign-finance-reform] bill was first introduced that it passed the [Senate|Senate] in [April|April]

: 5

Total amount raised at the two major-party fund-raisers held in the week before its passage

: $9,500,000

Number of members of [Congress|Congress] or their staffers who failed to file a [Taxes|tax] return or pay back taxes in [1990s|1999]

: 856

Amount Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill [Avarice|earned] last year as [CEO|CEO] of Alcoa

: $56,400,000

Rank of Alcoa among the worst U.S. [Pollution|polluters] during O’Neill’s tenure, according to the National Wildlife Federation

: 1

Minimum number of accidental releases of [Pollution|chemicals] or [Oil|oil] leading to [Death|deaths] or injuries at U.S. work sites last year

: 230

Percentage change since [1990s|1995] in [GlobalWarming|carbon emissions] by the [UnitedStates|United States] and [China|China], respectively

: +6, ???15

Ratio of the amount of [Pollution|insecticides] used in the U.S. in [1940s|1945] to the amount used last year

: 1:10

Estimated percentage of U.S. pre-harvest [Food|crops] [Agriculture|lost] to [Insect|insects] in [1940s|1945] and last year, respectively

: 7, 13

Average number of [Food|food-poisoning] incidents in the [UnitedStates|United States] each day

: 208,000

Percentage increase since last [Spring|spring] in [Europe|European] [Diet|meat] orders from [Ostrich|OstrichesOnline.com]

: +200

Estimated number of people who tried to cross illegally into [Britain|England] via the Channel Tunnel each night last year

: 125

Estimated number of [Bosnia|Bosnians] who have been identified from the 4,000 bags of remains from the [1990s|1995] Srebrenica [WarCrime|massacre]

: 80

Amount that the U.S. has given [ElSalvador|El Salvador] for [Disaster|earthquake] relief since [January|January]

: $14,500,000

Estimated amount that [ElSalvador|Salvadorans] living in the U.S. sent home last year

: $1,800,000,000

Annual amount spent since [1990s|1995] to maintain a former U.S. [Congress|congressional] [Nuclear|nuclear] shelter as a tourist site

: $500,000

Percentage change since [1980s|1989] in the annual number of paternity tests conducted at U.S. blood-[Banking|bank]-accredited labs

: +262

Number of U.S. states whose laws still refer to [Child|children] born out of [Marriage|wedlock] as “bastards”

: 13

Number of [PBS|PBS] stations that aired a program called “[Sex|Magnificent Lovemaking]” during [March|March] fund-raising

: 88

Chance that a [CatholicFaith|Catholic] saint named in the last 400 years was canonized by [JohnPaulII|Pope John Paul II]

: 1 in 2
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