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Estimated percentage of the inhabitants of the contiguous [UnitedStates|United States] who have been exposed to [Nuclear|nuclear] [Pollution|fallout]

: 100

Total amount of federal [Agriculture|farm] subsidies received by [Enron|Kenneth Lay] since [1990s|1996]

: $12,038

Total [Democracy|public] [Business|financing] for which [Enron|Enron] has received approval since [1990s|1992]

: $7,219,000,000

Number of recommendations made by the S.E.C. since [1990s|1992] to file [Crime|criminal] charges against individuals

: 609

Number of these recommendations that led to prosecution, conviction, and [Prison|jail] time, respectively

: 189, 144, 87

Weeks during which the U.S. government suspended [War|investment] of federal workers’ [SeniorCitizen|pension] funds this year

: 2

Months during which [Alabama|Alabama] will suspend most jury trials this year due to a lack of funds

: 5

Percentage of new state laws involving biotechnology that increase penalties for destroying genetically [Science|modified] [Food|crops]

: 70

Factor by which the [GeorgeWBush|Bush] Administration’s budget proposal in [February|February] increased [FederalGovernment|federal funding] to fight [WMD|bioterrorism]

: 4

Number of years the directorship of the National Institutes of Health has been vacant

: 2.3

Total amount the [IRS|I.R.S]. has paid Americans in improperly claimed slave reparations since 2000

: $30,000,000

Chance of contracting a “fairly common” form of [Cancer|colon cancer] [Science|reported] on in the [NewYorkTimes|New York Times] [April|April] 4

: 1 in 8,000

Chance of a [Child|child] contracting the “rare [Disease|disease]” neuroblastoma, as cited by another Times article the same day

: 1 in 7,000

Number of artists [Jobs|employed] full-time by the [Media|Wall Street Journal] to convert photographs into [Mendacity|faux engravings]

: 5

Number of ecstasy tablets seized at [Miami|Miami’s] [AirTravel|airport] in [February|February] from an 81-year-old [Women|woman] in a wheelchair

: 9,931

Amount of missing [Lunch|lunch] [Money|money] for which a Kansas City teacher strip-searched 23 third-graders in [March|March]

: $5

Number of [Literature|books] to which a national reading program has assigned points that [Student|students] can accumulate for rewards

: 50,000

Points assigned to Tom Clancy’s Executive Orders and Fyodor Dostoevsky’s [Crime|Crime] and Punishment, respectively

: 78, 40

Date on which the first CD of the [Brooklyn|Brooklyn] rock band I Am the World Trade Center was released

: 5/8/01

Track number of their song “[September|September]”

: 11

Months after the building’s inauguration in [December|December] that [Israel|Israel] used three U.S.-made [Missile|missiles] to [Medicine|destroy] it

: 2.5

Years Reich spent as ambassador to [Venezuela|Venezuela] in the [1980s|1980s]

: 4

Years into his ambassadorship that he was cited for creating illegal “covert [Propaganda|propaganda]” in the [Iran|Iran]-Contra scandal

: 1

[Days|Days] after [April|April’s] [Venezuela|Venezuelan] [Revolution|coup] that he attributed his [Ignorance|ignorance] of events there to an “information blackout”

: 4

Number of the 46 [Journalism|journalists] imprisoned in [LatinAmerica|Latin America] between [1990s|1998] and 2001 who worked in [Venezuela|Venezuela]

: 1

Number of reformist daily [Media|newspapers] in [Iran|Iran]

: 6

Percentage of [Iran|Iranians] and [Kuwait|Kuwaitis], respectively, who say that the [September11|September 11] [SuicideBombing|attacks] were “totally justifiable”

: 8, 18

Percentage of Americans who say this

: 5

Number of the seven U.S. vetoes cast in the [UnitedNations|U.N.] [HomelandSecurity|Security] Council since [1990s|1990] that have [Justice|blocked] censures of [Israel|Israel]

: 6

Amount the U.S. Agency for International [Technology|Development] spent to build [Palestine|Bethlehem] University’s Millennium Hall

: $1,200,000

Years U.S. [LatinAmerica|Latin American] [Hygiene|policy] adviser Otto Reich was a [Corruption|lobbyist] for Mobil [Energy|Oil] before his appointment in [January|January]

: 6

Number of times [Israel|Israel] has formally recognized the [Freedom|right] of a [Palestine|Palestinian] state to exist anywhere

: 0

Ratio of the number of [Israel|Israelis] and [Palestine|Palestinians] [War|killed] in political [Violence|violence] last year to the number of [SriLanka|Sri Lankans] [Death|killed]

: 2:3

Ratio of the number of Americans [War|killed] by [Terrorism|terrorists] last year to the [Science|estimated] number who died from [Food|food] poisoning

: 3:5

Barrels of [Oil|oil] required to raise U.S. [Cattle|cattle] for [Meat|beef] each year

: 155,000,000

[Days|Days] the University of [Georgia|Georgia] heated its campus last [Winter|winter] by burning [Chickens|chicken] fat and other leftover [Food|food] grease

: 21

Ratio of the amount of [Food|food] thrown out by [SouthKorea|South] Korea last year to the amount consumed by [NorthKorea|North] Korea

: 1:1

Number of [Wealth|billionaires] worldwide last year and this year, respectively

: 580, 497

Rank of the [UnitedStates|United States] among countries that [Economics|lost] the largest number of [Wealth|billionaires] in the last year

: 1
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