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Chance that an [AmericanMen|American man] considers himself a victim of [Justice|injustice]

: 1 in 4

Chance that an [AmericanWomen|American woman] considers herself a victim of [Justice|injustice]

: 1 in 5

Number of rooms planned for the [Space|Lunar Hilton]

: 5,000

Chance that an [Sex|impotence drug] up for approval by the [FDA|FDA] lists yawning as a side effect

: 1 in 3

Number of the 535 free subscriptions [Pornography|Hustler] offered members of [Congress|Congress] last year that were rejected

: 16

Fee for which [Entertainment|The Amazing Kreskin] says he would be willing to intercede in [KennethStarr|Starr’s] investigation

: $1

Percentage of all American adults under the age of 33 who say this

: 21

Percentage of [Race|African Americans] who say they have [Ignorance|never heard of] [KennethStarr|Kenneth Starr]

: 26

Amount [BillClinton|Bill Clinton] earned last year in residuals for his [1990s|1992] [Music|saxophone] [Entertainment|performance] on Arsenio Hall

: $76

Number of witnesses called in the House [Democracy|campaign-finance] investigation who have [Justice|taken the Fifth]

: 53

Number of [Animal|animals] that died in accidents at [Disney|Disney’s] new Animal Kingdom park before it opened last [April|April]

: 27

Factor by which the sweetness of [Cookery|Sucralose], a newly approved sweetener, exceeds that of sugar

: 600

Percentage of the lab [Animal|animals] launched aboard [NASA|NASA’s] Neurolab last [April|April] that died [Space|in orbit], snails excluded

: 70

Percentage of U.S. [Plants|plant] [LivingOrganism|species] cited as “threatened by extinction‚” by the [Conservation|World Conservation Union] last [April|April]

: 29

[Hours|Hours] after this announcement that Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt declared [War|war on weeds]

: 5.5

Portion of the world’s [Rice|rice] exports that [Indonesia|Indonesia] plans to import this year

: 1/5

Estimated number of [Rwanda|Rwandan] households headed by [Child|children]

: 85,000

Number of juvenile offenders awaiting [Justice|execution] in the U.S.

: 69

Amount the [California|California] [Prison|prison] system has spent since [1990s|1993] to prevent [Bird|birds] from being [Justice|electrocuted] by its fences

: $3,400,000

Percentage change since [1990s|1994] in membership in the American [Animal|Emu] Association

: ???70

Membership of [Netherlands|Holland]’s Society Against [Profanity|Swearing]

: 22,400

Number of [Netherlands|Dutch] [Literature|authors] to whom the Society has [PostalService|mailed] ballpoints inscribed “watch your pen‚”

: 2,000

Number of words in the [1990s|1999] [Language|Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary] whose “offensive‚” designation will be italicized

: 200

Number of [Days|days] last [March|March] that a [Georgia|Georgia] [Teenager|teen] was [Justice|suspended] after wearing a [PepsiCola|Pepsi] [Fashion|shirt] on his [Education|school’s] “[CocaCola|Coke Day]‚”

: 1

Percentage of all privately owned [Animal|bison] in the U.S. that belong to [Wealth|Ted Turner]

: 7

Chance that a mile of [Connecticut|Connecticut] beach is open to the public

: 1 in 3

Number of field hands working at [FoundingFathers|Mt. Vernon] this [Summer|summer] as [Agriculture|Pioneer Farmer Interns]

: 7

Percentage of last year’s campers who were [Judaism|Jewish]

: 8

Price of [Vermont|Vermont’s] ten-day International [Summer|Summer] Institute for Youth in [Holocaust|Holocaust] Studies camp

: $1,000

Ratio of [Pollution|pollution] generated by a leaf blower in one hour to that generated by [Driving|driving] a [Transportation|car] one hundred miles

: 1:1

Maximum deduction allowed [Jobs|employers] for van-pool or mass-transit expenses, per employee

: $65

Maximum [Business|business] deduction allowed U.S. [Jobs|employers] per employee parking space they provide

: $175

Percentage change since [1990s|1994] in the annual number of independent [Banking|commercial banks] opening in the U.S.

: +276

Months before the [1920s|1929] stock [Business|market] crash that Forbes [Magazine|magazine] noted the “heroic scale‚” of U.S. economic growth

: 4

Number of [Business|corporate] spies in the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals

: 6,600

Number of city and state agencies suing [NewYorkCity|New York City] Mayor [RudolphGiuliani|Rudolph Giuliani] over his [Democracy|withholding of public] records

: 4

Minimum amount per 3-month period a former [NewYork|New York] [Welfare|welfare] recipient may earn and be considered “employed‚”

: $100

Chance that a [NewYorkCity|New Yorker] cut from state [Poverty|welfare] rolls in [1990s|1997’s] first quarter was [Jobs|employed] within 3 months

: 1 in 3

Percentage who say they are confident that [SocialSecurity|Social Security] will provide them with “significant‚” income

: 26
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