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Chance that a [Student|student] [Death|death] at [Education|school] in the last year was a [Suicide|suicide]

: 1 in 5

Chance that the [Murder|murder] of a [Student|student] at [Education|school] in the last two years was caused by [Crime|beating, strangling, or knife wounds]

: 1 in 4

Year in which [GeorgeWBush|George W. Bush] first described juvenile “superpredators‚” as “fatherless, [Jobs|jobless], [Fear|fearless], and godless‚”

: 1996

Year in which his [GeorgeHWBush|father] attended a [CIA|CIA] intelligence meeting wearing a red [Hair|wig] and false nose

: 1975

Rank of [Broccoli|broccoli] and peaches, respectively, among U.S.-grown produce with the highest residual [Pesticides|pesticide] levels

: 18,1

Number of U.S. state and county fairs that participated in last year’s [Cookery|National Best Spam Recipe Contest]

: 77

Ratio of U.S. [Student|students] [Murder|killed] in or near [Education|schools] since last [August|August] to those killed in the [1990s|1992] school year

: 1:2

Percentage change since last year in the number of [Russia|Russians] enrolled in Hebrew [Education|classes]

: +80

Number of [WashingtonDC|Washington, D.C.], cherry [Trees|trees] felled last [Spring|spring] by [Mammal|beavers]

: 4

Percentage change since [January|January] [1990s|1998] in the number of [Russia|Russian] [Religion|Jews] moving to [Israel|Israel]

: +100

Tons of [WMD|uranium] from [Russia|Russia’s] [Nuclear|nuclear] arsenal that the country will [Business|sell] to a U.S. company over the next twenty years

: 500

Annual cost of containing [Plants|plants] and [Animal|animals] accidentally irradiated at [Washington|Washington’s] [Energy|Hanford Nuclear Site]

: $2,000,000

Pounds of [Plutonium|plutonium] that a [Britain|British] [Nuclear|nuclear] plant has dumped into the [Ireland|Irish Sea] since [1950s|1959]

: 397

Percentage change in the number of ponds in [Britain|Britain] since the turn of the century

: ???75

Number of [Days|days] last year that a [Britain|British] [Art|art museum] exhibited a mound of dung from [DollyTheSheep|Dolly], the world’s first cloned [Sheep|sheep]

: 51

Apparent age, in years, of three-year-old [DollyTheSheep|Dolly] ‘s [Genetics|DNA]

: 9

Age at which Elizabeth Dole became a [RepublicanParty|Republican]

: 39

Age at [Death|death] last [March|March] of the [Animal|sturgeon] Nikita, Khrushchev’s gift to [Norway|Norway], after an accidental immersion in salt water

: 38

Number of live contraband [China|Chinese] chipmunks that the [Netherlands|Dutch] government ordered [AirTravel|KLM] to shred last [April|April]

: 440

Number of [CIA|CIA] laptops containing top-secret information [Business|sold] inadvertently at a government-surplus auction in [1990s|1995]

: 25

[Days|Days] after President Roosevelt’s death in [WWII|April] [1940s|1945] that Vice President Truman was told the [WMD|atomic bomb] existed

: 13

[Days|Days] it took Eleanor Roosevelt that year to decline an invitation to [Democracy|run] for U.S. senator from [NewYork|New York]

: 5

Chance that a [NewYorkTimes|New York Times] article about [HillaryClinton|Hillary Clinton’s] [Senate|Senate] [Democracy|campaign] this year mentions her [Marriage|husband]

: 1 in 3

Ratio of annual per capita [Alcohol|alcoholic]-beverage consumption in the U.S. to that in [Russia|Russia]

: 8:3

Ratio of the amount J. P. Morgan paid a [Men|man] to fight in his place in the [CivilWar|Civil War] to what he spent on [Vice|cigars] in 1863

: 1:1

Ratio of [Eggs|eggs] rolled on the White House [Plants|lawn] last [Easter|Easter] to bombs dropped on [Serbia|Serbia] during its Orthodox [Holiday|holy week]

: 1:1

Percentage of the [Medicine|medical] supplies bought since [1990s|1996] under [Iraq|Iraq’s] [Oil|oil]-for-[Food|food] program that has been distributed

: 43

Number of ranks by which 18 U.S. sailors were demoted last [April|April] after refusing [Anthrax|anthrax] vaccinations

: 1

Average number of Americans [Death|killed] each week by [PrescriptionDrugs|prescription drugs]

: 1,900

Average number of [Zimbabwe|Zimbabweans] [Death|killed] each week by [AIDS|AIDS]

: 2,500

Number of troops that could have prevented [Rwanda|Rwanda]’s [1990s|1994] [Genocide|genocide], according to the head of [UnitedNations|U.N.] forces there then

: 5,000

Number of [Days|days] it took the [Germany|German] army to [Imperialism|conquer] [Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia] in [WWII|World War II’s] “Operation Punishment‚”

: 11

Minimum number of [Law|Geneva Convention] violations of which [NATO|NATO] was accused last [May|May] by a [Lawyer|lawyers’] group

: 18

Number that the Defense Logistics Agency has requisitioned since

: 9,000

Number of purple [Heart|hearts] in the U.S. inventory in [1980s|1985]

: 121,475

Circumference in inches of the biceps of the [GIJoe|G.I. Joe] Extreme doll introduced last year, if he were six feet tall

: 27.3

Number of [Days|days] before its unveiling last [Winter|winter] that shrubs and potted [Trees|trees] were positioned to obscure its [Penis|penis]

: 1

Weight in pounds of a bronze [Elephant|elephant] donated to the [UnitedNations|U.N.] last year by [Kenya|Kenya], [Namibia|Namibia], and [Nepal|Nepal]

: 7,000

Weight in pounds of [Thailand|Thailand’s] [1990s|1999] Jumbo Queen, displaying “the grace, elegance, and enormity of an [Elephant|elephant]‚”

: 352
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