Chance an American believes that [War|peace] in [MiddleEast|the Middle East] will require a military [Democracy|victory]
: 1 in 2Chance an American believes it is very likely that the [Israel|Israeli]-[Palestine|Palestinian] conflict will lead to World [War|War] III
: 1 in 5Rank of “[Religion|no religion]” among responses given in [1990s|1990] by Americans asked to identify their religious grouping
: 5Number of [Florida|Florida] State University [Student|students] [Justice|arrested] in [March|March] for protesting while not in a designated “[AnimalRights|free]-[Propaganda|speech] area”
: 12Average number of times former [Lawyer|attorney] general [JanetReno|Janet Reno] did this in as many months
: 7Number of times [Lawyer|Attorney] General [JohnAshcroft|John Ashcroft] has overruled a local prosecutor’s decision not to seek the [DeathPenalty|death penalty]
: 12Amount that [BillClinton|Bill Clinton’s] first 320 appointees spent on [Democracy|campaign] contributions in the election cycle prior to [HillaryClinton|Clinton’s] election
: $1,040,000Amount that [GeorgeWBush|Bush’s] first 320 appointees spent on [Democracy|campaign] contributions in the previous election cycle
: $1,590,000Percentage of their respective nations’ [Democracy|popular vote] won in 2000 by [GeorgeWBush|George W. Bush] and [Venezuela|Venezuela’s] [HugoChavez|Hugo Ch?vez]
: 48, 60Length in pages of the U.S.-[Russia|Russia] [Nuclear|nuclear]-arms-reduction treaty drafted in [May|May]
: 3Ratio of [Japan|Japanese] to U.S. companies among the top ten recipients of U.S. [Science|patents] last year
: 7:2Number of subscribers to [Japan|Japanese] prime minister Junichiro Koizumi’s email [Magazine|magazine] Lionheart
: 2,200,000Number of years that a member of the Council on Foreign Relations has authored Parade [Magazine|magazine’s] celebrity-gossip column
: 11Number of [Hours|hours] [Israel|Israeli] soldiers in Ramallah broadcast [Pornography|pornography] on seven [Palestine|Palestinian] [Television|television] stations in [March|March]
: 48Number of references to [Palestine|Palestinian] retaliation
: 14Number of references to [Israel|Israeli] “retaliation” on U.S. network nightly newscasts between [September|September] 2000 and [March|March] 2002
: 118[Israel|Israeli] military budget today expressed in these terms
: 187Military budget of [Israel|Israel] in [1960s|1967] expressed as a percentage of the budgets of [Egypt|Egypt], [Iraq|Iraq], [Jordan|Jordan], and [Syria|Syria] combined
: 58Length in pages of the U.S.-[Russia|Soviet] [Nuclear|nuclear]-arms-reduction treaty signed by [GeorgeHWBush|George H.W. Bush] in [1990s|1991]
: 630Percentage change in the number of prescription-drug products recalled by the [FDA|FDA] since [1990s|1998]
: +40[Days|Days] after receiving it last year that a [California|California] dump lost its landmark status because it is a [Pollution|Superfund] site
: 20Amount spent since [1980s|1989] to clean up the site
: $23,000,000Percentage change in the number of U.S. beach closings between [1990s|1999] and 2000
: +83[Minutes|Minutes] after a [Disaster|tornado] hit Shiloh, [Illinois|Illinois], in [April|April] that the town’s warning siren sounded
: 30Months after enacting it that [California|California’s] [Energy|energy] commission last [Spring|spring] renewed its ban on using duct tape on ducts
: 16Chances an American [Folly|believes] the government should regulate [Comedy|comedy] routines that make light of [Terrorism|terrorist] [SuicideBombing|attacks]
: 2 in 5Number of requests [Nevada|Nevada] has received since [January|January] for a new license-plate design featuring a mushroom cloud
: 322Amount [Congress|Congress] allocated Blue Springs, [Missouri|Missouri], this spring to help the town combat “gothic culture”
: $237,437Miles from Blue Springs to the nearest Gothic cathedral
: 4,280Chance that a prescription drug approved by the [FDA|FDA] will be recalled or require relabeling within 25 years of its release
: 1 in 5Percentage who say they would do so for the maker of a pill that could make part of their body smaller
: 6Percentage of Americans who would sign away their [Freedom|right] to sue the maker of a pill that could make part of their body bigger
: 3Ratio of Avon ladies to [Business|soldiers] in [Brazil|Brazil]
: 5:2Percentage of [Britain|Britons] who feel “vulnerable” in forests
: 31Percentage of [Men|male] [Fish|fish] in two [Britain|English] rivers that [Science|scientists] say have been “effectively [Feminism|feminised]” by estrogen in the water
: 100Number of years after its founding that the shipping [Media|newspaper] Lloyd’s List last [April|April] stopped referring to ships as “she”
: 268Number of [Fishing|fishing] boats bought and sunk by the U.S. government since [1990s|1995] in efforts to [Regulation|protect] [Fish|overfished] [LivingOrganism|species]
: 88Daily fine introduced last month for the [Nature|outdoor] use of upholstered furniture in Normal, [Illinois|Illinois]
: $100Rank today
: 3