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Number of incumbent [RepublicanParty|Republican] governors who have won the presidency since 1898

: 0

Number of incumbent vice presidents [Democracy|elected] to the presidency between 1836 and [1980s|1988]

: 0

Percentage of newborns in [India|India] who would qualify for intensive care if they were born in [California|California]

: 30

Rank of [France|France], [Italy|Italy], and [Germany|Germany], respectively, among countries with the best overall [HealthCare|health]-care systems

: 1,2,25

Number of troops [Italy|Italy] mistakenly sent to Kristianstad, [Sweden|Sweden], last [May|May] instead of Kristiansand, [Norway|Norway]

: 116

Number of [Days|days] in the [1970s|1970s] that the system was operational before it was abandoned as inadequate

: 135

Cost to produce Safeguard, the only U.S. ground-based long-range [Missile|missile] shield ever deployed

: $23,500,000,000

Year in which [MikhailGorbachev|Mikhail Gorbachev] told [RonaldReagan|Ronald Reagan], “I think you’re wasting your [Money|money] ‚” on [StarWars|Star Wars]

: 1987

Number of national and independent armies [War|fighting] in the [Congo|Democratic Republic of the Congo]

: 12

Number of incumbent [Democracy|vice presidents] elected to the presidency between 1836 and [1980s|1988]

: 0

Chance that a 15-year-old [Africa|African] [Boy|boy] will die of [AIDS|AIDS]

: 1 in 2

Percentage change since [1990s|1990] in the number of [WarCrime|deaths] from accidental poisoning among [SeniorCitizen|elderly] Americans

: ???10

Percentage change since then in the number of such [Death|deaths] among Americans between the ages of 45 and 64

: +188

Number of the three [Cancer|cancer] survivors on the [SupremeCourt|Supreme Court] who are also over 70

: 2

Percentage of [Justice|death-penalty] trials since [1970s|1976] that appeals courts have found to include “serious, reversible error‚”

: 68

Chance that a government [Justice|execution] since [1970s|1976] was performed in [Texas|Texas]

: 1 in 3

Percentage of Americans who favor repealing the [Taxes|estate tax]

: 60

Estimated percentage of Americans deceased last year whose estates paid the [Taxes|tax]

: 2

Factor by which [Housing|homeowners’] [Taxes|deductions] claimed by Americans last year exceed the budget of HUD

: 3

Estimated portion of U.S. coastal [Housing|homes] whose plots will be obliterated by [GlobalWarming|erosion] by the year 2060

: 1/4

Average number of new [Wealth|homes] built each day in [NewYork|New York’s] East Hampton last year

: 0.93

Ratio of the number of copies of _ [Literature|The Great Gatsby] _ [Business|sold] each month in the U.S. to the number sold in the author’s lifetime

: 5:3

Amount contributed for a [Education|University of Nebraska] [EnglishLanguage|English] chair last [June|June] by the founder of [Mendacity|CliffsNotes]

: $250,000

Estimated percentage of [Uganda|Ugandan] [Democracy|voters] who support postponing a multiparty political system

: 80

Percentage of [Palestine|Palestinians] who said at the time that they believed this would occur

: 38

Date by which the [Palestine|Palestinian] Authority announced last [Summer|summer] that a Palestinian state would be established

: 9/13/00

Estimated number of people who live in a “state of concern‚”

: 180,000,000

[Days|Days] after the Koreas’ rapprochement last [June|June] that the U.S. replaced the term “rogue states‚” with “states of concern‚”

: 4

Ratio of [MilitaryIndustrialComplex|Lockheed Martin’s] [1990s|1999] [Business|sales] to the $13 million fine it will pay for giving secret [Technology|technology] to [China|China]

: 1,962:1

Ratio of Motorola’s commercial sales in [China|China] last year to the value of its U.S. defense contracts

: 3:1

Percentage change since then in [Television|TV] networks’ combined annual ad revenue

: +46

Percentage change since [1990s|1991] in the size of the network [Television|TV] audience

: ???24

Length, in pages, of [AlGore|Al Gore’s] [1960s|1969] [Harvard|Harvard] thesis on the impact of [Television|TV] “on the conduct of the Presidency‚”

: 105

Number of times [Narcissism|Maureen] [Schlock|Dowd’s] [NewYorkTimes|New York Times] column has likened a [Democracy|male political candidate’s] style to [Parenting|lactation]

: 3

Number of Chevron [Oil|oil] tankers named after [CondoleezzaRice|Condoleezza Rice], [GeorgeWBush|George W. Bush’s] foreign-policy adviser

: 1

Ratio of the amount of [Energy|energy] generated by 1 gallon of [Corn|ethanol] to the amount of energy required to produce it

: 1:0.9

Pounds of [Energy|fuel] required to maintain this year’s 11,500 [Sport|Olympic] torches

: 2,029

Factor by which [Pollution|dioxin] levels detected around the Village site during construction exceeded [EPA|EPA] guidelines

: 1,540

Percentage by which the [Cancer|cancer] [Death|death] rate in the area around [Australia|Sydney’s] [Sport|Olympic Village] exceeds the rest of the city’s

: 8.5
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