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Portion of the world’s population living in “severely water stressed environments”

: 2/5

Amount that the company paid to settle the cases

: $478,000,000

Number of appearances made by [Business|corporate] [HouseOfRepresentatives|representatives] on U.S. [Television|network] nightly [Media|newscasts] last year

: 955

Number of appearances made by [Labor|labor] [HouseOfRepresentatives|representatives]

: 31

Chance that a U.S. [Jobs|employer] faced with a [Labor|union] drive in [1990s|1998] or 1999 illegally fired a [Labor|pro-union] worker

: 1 in 4

Percentage of U.S. [Business|corporate] executives who admit to having cheated at [Golf|golf]

: 82

Percentage of U.S. [College|college] [Student|students] who say they would try to evade the [War|draft] if one were called today

: 37

Ratio of military recruiters to [College|college] counselors at East [California|Los Angeles’s] [Education|Roosevelt High School]

: 5:1

Percentage of [Student|students] in Cleveland’s six-year-old [Education|school voucher] program who attend [Religion|religious] schools

: 99

Estimated percentage of the world’s habitable land owned by major [Religion|religious] groups

: 7

Number of lawsuits filed since [1990s|1999] against a firm then run by the [Men|man] leading [GeorgeWBush|Bush’s] new Corporate Fraud Taskforce

: 3

Estimated percentage of [Labor|work-related] [Death|deaths] worldwide last year that were caused by communicable [Disease|disease]

: 16

Tons of donated U.S. [Corn|corn] refused by [Zimbabwe|Zimbabwe] in [May|May] because it could not be certified genetically unmodified

: 10,000

[Days|Days] this year that [Russia|Russia] banned the import of U.S. poultry because of health concerns

: 35

Minimum number of [KFC|Kentucky Fried Chicken] outlets that the company plans to open in [France|France] by 2006

: 100

Percentage change since 2000 in the number of awards won by Americans at the World Championship [Diet|Cheese] Contest

: +38

Number of square feet of [Business|retail space] per American

: 27

Number of U.S. [Supermarket|supermarkets] where shoppers can pay using fingerprint readers

: 4

Total number of fingerprints on file with [Supermarket|supermarkets] so far

: 6,000

Number of [Monkey|monkeys] that the [FederalGovernment|federal government] has [Science|infected] with [Smallpox|smallpox] since [May|May] 2001

: 24

Projected cost per mile of the security fence [Israel|Israel] is building around the [Palestine|West Bank]

: $2,563,600

Richter-scale magnitude of an [Disaster|earthquake] last [June|June] twelve miles from the Yucca site

: 4.4

Minimum number of U.S. companies, individuals, and organizations that are licensed to possess [Nuclear|radioactive] material

: 67,000

Decades by which the United States applied last [Spring|spring] to extend its [Nuclear|nuclear] testing in the Marshall Islands

: 4

[Days|Days] before [Bolivia|Bolivia’s] [June|June] [Democracy|election] that the U.S. ambassador warned Bolivians not to vote for the Socialist candidate

: 4

Percentage change, after the warning, in the number of [Bolivia|Bolivians] who supported the Socialist

: +198

Ratio of U.S. external [Finance|debt] to that of all [DevelopingNations|developing countries] combined

: 1:1

Ratio of the amount the U.S. pays to service this [Finance|debt] to the total amount [DevelopingNations|developing countries] pay

: 1:15

Radius, in miles, around this year’s G8 summit in [Canada|Canada] within which unauthorized persons were not allowed

: 2

Distance, in miles, from the summit to the area where demonstrations were allowed

: 11

Estimated portion of all U.S. [Nuclear|nuclear] waste that [Nevada|Nevada’s] Yucca Mountain dumpsite will hold when it is full in 2046

: 3/5

Number of [Judaism|Jewish] [Immigration|immigrants] Prime Minister [ArielSharon|Ariel Sharon] said in [June|June] that he wants to attract to [Israel|Israel]

: 1,000,000

Number of the [September11|September 11] [Terrorism|hijackers] whose entry visas came through a special U.S.-[SaudiArabia|Saudi]”Visa Express” program

: 3

Rank of the [UnitedStates|United States] and [Britain|Britain] among countries viewed most favorably by [Islam|Muslims] aged 15 to 25

: 1,2

Number of [NATO|NATO] member nations besides the [UnitedStates|United States] with a civilian oath of loyalty

: 0

Number of [Weapons|weapons] seized in a [1960s|1962] desegregation riot at a fraternity then headed by future senator Trent Lott

: 24

Ratio of the number of acts of [Congress|Congress] overturned by the [SupremeCourt|Warren Court] to those overturned by the Rehnquist Court

: 25:26

Number of bills vetoed by [GeorgeWBush|George W. Bush] during his first 18 months in office

: 0

Number of other [USPresident|U.S. presidents] who have done this since 1850 besides [BillClinton|Bill Clinton] and Millard T. Fillmore

: 0
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