Number of [Animal|leaf-cutter ants] required to lift a 10-pound [Americana|picnic basket]
: 60,133Number of [Firearms|semiautomatic] paint-ball rifles ordered by the [California|LAPD] in preparation for this month’s [DemocraticParty|Democratic] convention
: 40Amount [NewJersey|New Jersey’s] Camden [Policing|police] spent on riot gear in preparation for [Philadelphia|Philadelphia’s] [RepublicanParty|GOP] convention
: $47,775Number of years remaining in Pat Buchanan’s “political life,‚” according to Buchanan
: 10Minimum amount [BillClinton|President Clinton’s] [SeniorCitizen|pension] and staff will cost U.S. [Taxes|taxpayers] if his life span is average
: $6,072,000Ratio of the number of [Business|corporate] mergers signed under the [BillClinton|Clinton] Administration to those signed under [RonaldReagan|Reagan]
: 3:1Number of prizes in [Economics|economics] ever funded by the Nobel Foundation
: 0Number funded “in memory of Alfred Nobel‚” by the [Banking|Bank of Sweden]
: 31Percentage of [Propaganda|public relations] executives who say they have “had to [Mendacity|lie] ‚” in the course of their [Jobs|jobs]
: 25Distance that the [Animal|silver-spotted skipper caterpillar] can propel its own feces, in feet
: 5Percentage change since [1990s|1995] in the number of assaults against federal officers patrolling the [California|California] border
: +617Number of [Hours|hours] at 95?F it takes for [Diet|egg] salad to go bad
: 4.6Percentage change in the [Disease|gonorrhea] rate among [Teenager|teens] and [Age|young adults] when the [Taxes|beer tax] is raised by 20 cents
: ???9Percentage of U.S. [Teenager|teenagers] who say they have engaged in [Sex|oral sex]
: 55Percentage who consider the practice “gross‚”
: 55Average number of words in the [Education|written vocabulary] of a 6- to 14-year-old American [Child|child] in [1940s|1945]
: 25,000Average number today
: 10,000Ratio of the number of words for the [Color|color] blue in Maya to the number in Spanish
: 3:1Estimated number of [Insect|fireflies] it would take to generate the visible brightness of the [Sun|sun]
: 14,286,000,000Average number of [Seconds|seconds] it takes to complete a transaction at a [Diet|Wendy’s drive-through]
: 150.29Percentage of last year’s U.S. [Agriculture|grain sales] to the [Europe|European Union] this represents
: 96Percentage of national forestland unprotected under the [BillClinton|President’s] proposed [Law|ban] on forest-[Transportation|road construction]
: 78Miles of new roads that the ban would allow in [Alaska|Alaska] ‘s Tongass National Forest
: 500Amount her foundation paid Pacific Lumber to spare the [Trees|trees]
: $50,000Price of a two-week stay at [California|California’s] Entrepreneurship Camp, for ages 9 through 16
: $1,950Chance that a contestant who’s appeared on [ABC|ABC] ‘s Who Wants to Be a [Wealth|Millionaire] has won a million dollars
: 1 in 67Chance that a contestant who appeared on the show’s [Britain|British] precursor ever won a million pounds
: 0Number of [Entertainment|entertainment] award ceremonies scheduled to be held in the U.S. this year
: 332Number of U.S. states that declared last [August|August] 8 “[Holiday|National Admit You’re Happy Day]‚”
: 19Amount by which last year’s [WTO|WTO] accord is projected to increase annual U.S. [Agriculture|grain sales] to [China|China]
: $1,000,000,000Rank of a [Starbucks|Starbucks] store locator among the most commonly downloaded non-email [Technology|Palm Pilot applications]
: 1Number of months last [Spring|spring] that a [Louisiana|Louisiana] town’s [Pollution|sewage] lines were connected to its fresh water supply
: 3Gallons of [Pollution|bourbon] that flowed into the Kentucky River last [May|May] during a [Fire|fire] at a [Whiskey|Wild Turkey] warehouse
: 200,000Percentage of the trailers provided [NorthCarolina|North Carolina’s] Hurricane Floyd victims last [Fall|fall] that were still in use in [May|May]
: 56Percentage of [Refugee|refugees] from the [Bosnia|Bosnian] [War|war] who have not returned to their [Housing|homes] since [1990s|1995’s] peace accord
: 39Estimated number of years it will take to [War|remove] the 600,000 active mines in [Bosnia|Bosnia]-Herzegovina
: 30Minimum number of [Haiti|Haitian] politicians [Terrorism|assassinated] since [1990s|1994’s] [USMilitary|U.S. military] intervention
: 8[Business|Bounty] placed on the head of any U.S. DEA agent last [January|January] by [Mexico|Mexico’s] Juarez [Drugs|drug cartel]
: $200,000