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Rank of [Manhattan|Manhattan] among [NewYork|New York State] counties using the largest amount of [Pesticides|pesticide] in [1990s|1997]

: 1

Percentage of households on U.S. [NativeAmerican|Indian] reservations that have [Telephone|phone] service

: 47

Number of U.S. counties in which a full-time [Poverty|minimum-wage] earner can afford a one-[Bedroom|bedroom] [Housing|apartment]

: 0

Number of pawnbrokers for every [Banking|bank] in Laredo, [Texas|Texas]

: 1.2

Chance that an American is governed by a [GeorgeWBush|Bush]

: 1 in 8

Chance that a [Florida|Florida] maximum-security state [Prison|prison] guard has been [Justice|arrested]

: 1 in 6

Chance that a U.S. major league [Baseball|baseball] player is [Immigration|foreign-born]

: 1 in 5

Percentage change since [1990s|1995] in the average price of a major league [Baseball|baseball] ticket

: +41

Percentage change since last [August|August] in the price of a seat on the [Finance|New York Stock Exchange]

: ???36

Average annual number of civilians [Death|killed] by [NewYorkCity|New York City] [Policing|police] under Mayor [RudolphGiuliani|Rudolph Giuliani]

: 23

Average annual number [Death|killed] under his predecessor, David Dinkins

: 29

Chances that a [Drugs|drug] offense by a [Race|black] U.S. juvenile with no prior [Prison|jail] time will result in imprisonment

: 48 in 100,000

Chance that a [Drugs|drug] offense by a [Race|white] juvenile with no prior [Prison|jail] time will do so

: 1 in 100,000

Amount the U.S. government spent on [Drugs|drug] testing per [Jobs|employee] who tested positive between [1990s|1997] and 1998

: $35,222

Percentage of [Iceland|Icelanders] who have declined including their [Genetics|DNA] in a private company’s national genetic database

: 7

Percentage by which the estimated number of genes on the human [Science|genome] has increased since [1990s|1995]

: 100

Minimum number of new bacteria [LivingOrganism|species] [Science|discovered] to exist in the human mouth last year

: 37

Portion of the funding for a national monument to [Race|black] [FoundingFathers|Revolutionary War] [Business|soldiers] that has been raised since [1980s|1985]

: 1/5

Number of full [AirTravel|flight] tests of the U.S. National [Missile|Missile] Defense system conducted in the program’s first seven years

: 2

Amount by which a [Congress|congressional] estimate of the system’s cost exceeds the [Pentagon|Pentagon’s]

: $19,000,000,000

Percentage change since the end of the [ColdWar|Cold War] in the number of [Army|U.S. Army] troops

: ???39

Percentage change since then in the number of U.S. troop deployments

: +400

Chance that a [UnitedNations|U.N.] peacekeeping mission to [Africa|Africa] has included American troops

: 1 in 9

Chance that a peacekeeping mission undertaken since [1980s|1989] was in [Africa|Africa]

: 1 in 2

Amount the U.S. proposed charging the [UnitedNations|U.N.] last [May|May] to fly a battalion of peacekeepers into [SierraLeone|Sierra Leone]

: $17,000,000

Estimated amount it would cost to fly in a battalion via commercial [AirTravel|airline]

: $6,000,000

Number of [Donkeys|donkeys] used by the [UnitedNations|U.N.] last year to deliver humanitarian aid to displaced families in [Afghanistan|Afghanistan]

: 1,500

Percentage of wells there that are dry

: 60

Number of months after severe floods hit [India|India] last [October|October] that the country suffered severe drought

: 6

Percentage change in [Ethiopia|Ethiopia] ‘s population since its last famine in [1980s|1984]

: +42

Amount [Ethiopia|Ethiopia] has spent on [War|war] with [Eritrea|Eritrea] since [1990s|1998]

: $300,000,000

Change since [1980s|1987] in the percentage of sub-Saharan [Africa|Africans] living on less than $1 a day

: 0

Number of Susan B. Anthony [Money|dollars] the U.S. minted last year to meet new vending-machine demand

: 37,000,000

Percentage of Americans who say that the U.S. government is no longer “ [Democracy|of, by, and for the people] ‚”

: 54

Percentage change in the number of U.S. beach closures or [Pollution|pollution] advisories between [1990s|1997] and 1998

: +74

Pounds of fossilized wood [Crime|stolen] from [Arizona|Arizona’s] Petrified Forest each day

: 66

Number of hidden video cameras discovered in the [Men|men’s] showers at a Yosemite campground last [July|July]

: 2

Fine for “nudity‚” that [Mississippi|Mississippi] has proposed levying on [Fashion|fully clothed men “in a discernibly turgid state‚”]

: $2,000
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