Number of the [UnitedNations|U.N.’s] 31 global [Pollution|environmental] agreements that have been
: 10Number of the [UnitedNations|U.N.’s] 21 human-rights agreements that have been ratified by the [UnitedStates|United States]
: 4Percentage of U.S. land where [Hunting|hunting] is illegal
: 3.5Percentage of U.S. coastal waters where this is true
: 0.005Number of U.S. marine sanctuaries where [Fishing|fishing] is illegal
: 0Number of 21 cruise ships tested by [Alaska|Alaska] last [Summer|summer] whose wastewater met federal [Pollution|sewage]-treatment [Regulation|standards]
: 1Year in which [Iceland|Iceland] plans to have ceased all use of fossil fuels
: 2030Estimated year in which [Texas|El Paso, Texas], will exhaust its current sources of water
: 2030Minimum 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]
: $7,460,000,000Chance 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 508Price paid at auction in [May|May] for a sculpture of [JohnPaulII|Pope John Paul II] being struck by a [Space|meteorite]
: $800,000Number of domestic [USMilitary|U.S. military] target-practice sites that are closer to populated areas than the one on Vieques
: 6Ratio of the [Cancer|cancer] rate on [PuertoRico|Puerto Rico’s] main island to that on Vieques
: 5:6Chance that a [Child|baby] born in [Belarus|Belarus] will contract thyroid [Cancer|cancer] in his or her lifetime
: 1 in 4Chances that a [Teenager|teenage] [Boy|boy] in [Botswana|Botswana] will die of [AIDS|AIDS], given current infection rates
: 9 in 10Percentage change since [1990s|1998] in the amount Americans spend each year on [PrescriptionDrugs|prescription drugs]
: +40Estimated number of Americans who died last year from adverse reactions to such drugs
: 218,000Rank of being “[Suffering|free of pain]” among seriously ill Americans’ top priorities regarding care at the end of their life
: 1Rank of being “at peace with God”
: 2Amount the inventor of the [Color|yellow] “smiley face” had received for it by the time of his death in [April|April]
: $45Estimated amount Tiger Woods’s [Golf|caddie] made last year
: $1,000,000Price of “Invisible Jim,” an [Toy|empty doll-shaped package], from a U.S. toy [Labor|manufacturer]
: $3Price of a pair of [Fashion|stonewashed, sanded, hand-torn jeans] from an [Italy|Italian] designer
: $2,222Number of left-wing [Colombia|Colombian] groups on the list
: 2Number of right-wing [Colombia|Colombian] groups on the [UnitedStates|United States] ‘ designated foreign [Terrorism|terrorist] list
: 0Estimated percentage of [Colombia|Colombia’s] [Drugs|cocaine] exports controlled by right-wing paramilitary leaders
: 40Percentage of the working residents of Del Rio, [Texas|Texas], who are directly [Jobs|employed] in the [Drugs|war on drugs]
: 20Percentage of [Palestine|Palestinians] working in [Israel|Israel] last [Summer|summer] who lost their [Jobs|job] after Israel’s blockade began in [October|October]
: 70Months after his [Democracy|election] in [February|February] that [ArielSharon|Sharon] criticized [Palestine|Palestinians] for “sending [Child|children] to the front”
: 2Age at which [Israel|Israeli] Prime Minister [ArielSharon|Ariel Sharon] enlisted in an underground [Judaism|Jewish] paramilitary group in [Palestine|Palestine]
: 14Percentage of Americans who believe that [Terrorism|Timothy McVeigh] was acting as part of an as-yet-unidentified “larger group”
: 40Number of decades between the end of the [Science|study] and the [Alabama|Alabama] legislature’s expression of “regret” over it in [May|May]
: 3Duration in decades of an [Alabama|Alabama] [Science|study] that allowed hundreds of syphilitic [AfricanAmerican|African Americans] to go untreated
: 4Chances that a [Mississippi|Mississippi] [AfricanAmerican|African American] opposes removing the state flag’s Confederate emblem
: 3 in 10Ratio of the starting salary of an [Oklahoma|Oklahoma] [Prison|prison] guard to the federal [Poverty|poverty] level for a [Family|family] of four
: 10:11Number of new [Labor|worker-protection] rules whose enactment [GeorgeWBush|Bush] ordered postponed on his first day in office
: 9Percentage of these decisions that [GeorgeWBush|President Bush] has proposed to allow the government to ignore indefinitely
: 100Estimated number of court decisions citing federal negligence in endangered-[LivingOrganism|species] protection that remain unheeded
: 270