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Number of [Animal|leaf-cutter ants] required to lift a 10-pound [Americana|picnic basket]

: 60,133

Number of [Firearms|semiautomatic] paint-ball rifles ordered by the [California|LAPD] in preparation for this month’s [DemocraticParty|Democratic] convention

: 40

Amount [NewJersey|New Jersey’s] Camden [Policing|police] spent on riot gear in preparation for [Philadelphia|Philadelphia’s] [RepublicanParty|GOP] convention

: $47,775

Number of years remaining in Pat Buchanan’s “political life,‚” according to Buchanan

: 10

Minimum amount [BillClinton|President Clinton’s] [SeniorCitizen|pension] and staff will cost U.S. [Taxes|taxpayers] if his life span is average

: $6,072,000

Ratio of the number of [Business|corporate] mergers signed under the [BillClinton|Clinton] Administration to those signed under [RonaldReagan|Reagan]

: 3:1

Number of prizes in [Economics|economics] ever funded by the Nobel Foundation

: 0

Number funded “in memory of Alfred Nobel‚” by the [Banking|Bank of Sweden]

: 31

Percentage of [Propaganda|public relations] executives who say they have “had to [Mendacity|lie] ‚” in the course of their [Jobs|jobs]

: 25

Distance that the [Animal|silver-spotted skipper caterpillar] can propel its own feces, in feet

: 5

Percentage change since [1990s|1995] in the number of assaults against federal officers patrolling the [California|California] border

: +617

Number of [Hours|hours] at 95?F it takes for [Diet|egg] salad to go bad

: 4.6

Percentage change in the [Disease|gonorrhea] rate among [Teenager|teens] and [Age|young adults] when the [Taxes|beer tax] is raised by 20 cents

: ???9

Percentage of U.S. [Teenager|teenagers] who say they have engaged in [Sex|oral sex]

: 55

Average number of words in the [Education|written vocabulary] of a 6- to 14-year-old American [Child|child] in [1940s|1945]

: 25,000

Ratio of the number of words for the [Color|color] blue in Maya to the number in Spanish

: 3:1

Estimated number of [Insect|fireflies] it would take to generate the visible brightness of the [Sun|sun]

: 14,286,000,000

Average number of [Seconds|seconds] it takes to complete a transaction at a [Diet|Wendy’s drive-through]

: 150.29

Percentage of last year’s U.S. [Agriculture|grain sales] to the [Europe|European Union] this represents

: 96

Percentage of national forestland unprotected under the [BillClinton|President’s] proposed [Law|ban] on forest-[Transportation|road construction]

: 78

Miles of new roads that the ban would allow in [Alaska|Alaska] ‘s Tongass National Forest

: 500

Amount her foundation paid Pacific Lumber to spare the [Trees|trees]

: $50,000

Price of a two-week stay at [California|California’s] Entrepreneurship Camp, for ages 9 through 16

: $1,950

Chance that a contestant who’s appeared on [ABC|ABC] ‘s Who Wants to Be a [Wealth|Millionaire] has won a million dollars

: 1 in 67

Chance that a contestant who appeared on the show’s [Britain|British] precursor ever won a million pounds

: 0

Number of [Entertainment|entertainment] award ceremonies scheduled to be held in the U.S. this year

: 332

Number of U.S. states that declared last [August|August] 8 “[Holiday|National Admit You’re Happy Day]‚”

: 19

Amount by which last year’s [WTO|WTO] accord is projected to increase annual U.S. [Agriculture|grain sales] to [China|China]

: $1,000,000,000

Rank of a [Starbucks|Starbucks] store locator among the most commonly downloaded non-email [Technology|Palm Pilot applications]

: 1

Number of months last [Spring|spring] that a [Louisiana|Louisiana] town’s [Pollution|sewage] lines were connected to its fresh water supply

: 3

Gallons of [Pollution|bourbon] that flowed into the Kentucky River last [May|May] during a [Fire|fire] at a [Whiskey|Wild Turkey] warehouse

: 200,000

Percentage of the trailers provided [NorthCarolina|North Carolina’s] Hurricane Floyd victims last [Fall|fall] that were still in use in [May|May]

: 56

Percentage of [Refugee|refugees] from the [Bosnia|Bosnian] [War|war] who have not returned to their [Housing|homes] since [1990s|1995’s] peace accord

: 39

Estimated number of years it will take to [War|remove] the 600,000 active mines in [Bosnia|Bosnia]-Herzegovina

: 30

Minimum 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
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