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Number of the [UnitedNations|U.N.’s] 31 global [Pollution|environmental] agreements that have been

: 10

Number of the [UnitedNations|U.N.’s] 21 human-rights agreements that have been ratified by the [UnitedStates|United States]

: 4

Percentage of U.S. land where [Hunting|hunting] is illegal

: 3.5

Percentage of U.S. coastal waters where this is true

: 0.005

Number of U.S. marine sanctuaries where [Fishing|fishing] is illegal

: 0

Number of 21 cruise ships tested by [Alaska|Alaska] last [Summer|summer] whose wastewater met federal [Pollution|sewage]-treatment [Regulation|standards]

: 1

Year in which [Iceland|Iceland] plans to have ceased all use of fossil fuels

: 2030

Estimated year in which [Texas|El Paso, Texas], will exhaust its current sources of water

: 2030

Minimum number of [Hours|hours] of [Energy|blackouts] predicted for [California|California] this [Summer|summer]

: 260

[FederalGovernment|Federal funds] budgeted this year for cleanup of the [Pentagon|Defense Department’s] [Pollution|hazardous waste]

: $7,460,000,000

Chance that a member of the [Europe|European] Parliament [Democracy|voted] in [January|January] to support [EuropeanUnion|E.U.] participation in Plan [Colombia|Colombia]

: 1 in 508

Price paid at auction in [May|May] for a sculpture of [JohnPaulII|Pope John Paul II] being struck by a [Space|meteorite]

: $800,000

Number of domestic [USMilitary|U.S. military] target-practice sites that are closer to populated areas than the one on Vieques

: 6

Ratio of the [Cancer|cancer] rate on [PuertoRico|Puerto Rico’s] main island to that on Vieques

: 5:6

Chance that a [Child|baby] born in [Belarus|Belarus] will contract thyroid [Cancer|cancer] in his or her lifetime

: 1 in 4

Chances that a [Teenager|teenage] [Boy|boy] in [Botswana|Botswana] will die of [AIDS|AIDS], given current infection rates

: 9 in 10

Percentage change since [1990s|1998] in the amount Americans spend each year on [PrescriptionDrugs|prescription drugs]

: +40

Estimated number of Americans who died last year from adverse reactions to such drugs

: 218,000

Rank of being “[Suffering|free of pain]” among seriously ill Americans’ top priorities regarding care at the end of their life

: 1

Amount the inventor of the [Color|yellow] “smiley face” had received for it by the time of his death in [April|April]

: $45

Estimated amount Tiger Woods’s [Golf|caddie] made last year

: $1,000,000

Price of “Invisible Jim,” an [Toy|empty doll-shaped package], from a U.S. toy [Labor|manufacturer]

: $3

Price of a pair of [Fashion|stonewashed, sanded, hand-torn jeans] from an [Italy|Italian] designer

: $2,222

Number of left-wing [Colombia|Colombian] groups on the list

: 2

Number of right-wing [Colombia|Colombian] groups on the [UnitedStates|United States] ‘ designated foreign [Terrorism|terrorist] list

: 0

Estimated percentage of [Colombia|Colombia’s] [Drugs|cocaine] exports controlled by right-wing paramilitary leaders

: 40

Percentage of the working residents of Del Rio, [Texas|Texas], who are directly [Jobs|employed] in the [Drugs|war on drugs]

: 20

Percentage of [Palestine|Palestinians] working in [Israel|Israel] last [Summer|summer] who lost their [Jobs|job] after Israel’s blockade began in [October|October]

: 70

Months after his [Democracy|election] in [February|February] that [ArielSharon|Sharon] criticized [Palestine|Palestinians] for “sending [Child|children] to the front”

: 2

Age at which [Israel|Israeli] Prime Minister [ArielSharon|Ariel Sharon] enlisted in an underground [Judaism|Jewish] paramilitary group in [Palestine|Palestine]

: 14

Percentage of Americans who believe that [Terrorism|Timothy McVeigh] was acting as part of an as-yet-unidentified “larger group”

: 40

Number of decades between the end of the [Science|study] and the [Alabama|Alabama] legislature’s expression of “regret” over it in [May|May]

: 3

Duration in decades of an [Alabama|Alabama] [Science|study] that allowed hundreds of syphilitic [AfricanAmerican|African Americans] to go untreated

: 4

Chances that a [Mississippi|Mississippi] [AfricanAmerican|African American] opposes removing the state flag’s Confederate emblem

: 3 in 10

Ratio of the starting salary of an [Oklahoma|Oklahoma] [Prison|prison] guard to the federal [Poverty|poverty] level for a [Family|family] of four

: 10:11

Number of new [Labor|worker-protection] rules whose enactment [GeorgeWBush|Bush] ordered postponed on his first day in office

: 9

Percentage of these decisions that [GeorgeWBush|President Bush] has proposed to allow the government to ignore indefinitely

: 100

Estimated number of court decisions citing federal negligence in endangered-[LivingOrganism|species] protection that remain unheeded

: 270
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