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Chance that the victim noticed being bitten

: 1 in 20

Minimum number of [Television|TV] markets in which last [August|August’s] [FCC|FCC] [Democracy|vote] will allow networks to [Media|own more than one station]

: 50

[Days|Days] after the [FCC|FCC] [Democracy|vote] that a [Television|TV] executive told the [NewYorkTimes|New York Times that he was eager to play the “[Media|duopoly game]‚”

: 1

Amount of [Business|corporate] funding or [Propaganda|advertising] accepted by the [Media|Pacifica Radio Network’s] five stations since [1940s|1949]

: 0

Number of [Days|days] last [July|July] that Pacifica locked out the entire staff of [Hippies|Berkeley’s] KPFA over [Censorship|internal politics]

: 17

[Hours|Hours] after the [Entertainment|Woodstock riots] last [Summer|summer] that a participant told a reporter he couldn’t wait to see them on [Television|TV]

: 6

Number of the 10 billion plastic [CocaCola|Coke] bottles distributed in the U.S. each year that are made from [Environment|recycled] material

: 0

Number of confirmed [Death|deaths] caused by doctored [Holiday|Halloween] [Sweets|candy] given to [Child|children] by strangers

: 0

Number of confirmed [Death|deaths] caused by doctored [Holiday|Halloween] [Sweets|candy] given to [Child|children] by their [Family|relatives]

: 1

Chance that an American who contracted [Disease|rabies] from a [Animal|bat] since [1980s|1981] survived the illness

: 0

Number of times it [Men|mentions] or implies that He was [Judaism|Jewish]

: 0

Percentage of the 2.3 million gallons of [Medicine|blood] Americans could donate each month that they actually do

: 0.1

Gallons of untreated [Pollution|sewage] that spilled onto L.A.’s streets last [June|June] after a sanitation plant’s [Y2K|Y2K] test

: 1,200,000

Number of [Transportation|tires] found along the Mississippi River since [1990s|1997] by an [Illinois|Illinois] [Men|man] bent on cleaning it

: 1,916

Billions of gallons of water that the [RepublicanParty|GOP] reported released into a [NewHampshire|New Hampshire] river in [July|July] for an [AlGore|Al Gore] visit

: 4

Billions of gallons actually released, and average amount released into the river each day, respectively

: 1.67, 1.9

Percentage by which a year of [Environment|drought] had lowered the Potomac River by last [August|August]

: 60

Number of [Democracy|federal candidates] publicly declared to have “crossed a Rubicon‚” while campaigning this year

: 3

Number of [Days|days] last [August|August] that [Iowa|Iowa] hosted both the [RepublicanParty|GOP] [Democracy|presidential] straw poll and the [Poverty|National Hobo Convention]

: 1

Number of contestants who vied there for the title of [1990s|1999] Hobo King

: 3

Weeks after [Pakistan|Pakistan] vowed last [July|July] to rid a disputed territory of Pakistani rebels that [India|India] downed one of its [AirTravel|planes]

: 6

Percentage change in domestic discretionary spending required through 2002 to fund [Congress|Congress’s] proposed [Taxes|tax] cuts

: ???18

Portion of these [Taxes|tax] cuts that will go to [Business|corporations]

: 9/10

Ratio of the cost of building an F-22 fighter [AirTravel|jet] to that of upgrading an F-15 to twice the F-22’s effectiveness

: 1,500:1

Value of [Pentagon|Pentagon]-brokered U.S. arms [Business|sales] last year to [Taiwan|Taiwan], expressed as a percentage of such sales to [Israel|Israel]

: 92

Year in which some of the [Nuclear|nuclear] “secrets‚” that [Congress|Congress] alleges [China|China] stole were published in the U.S.

: 1984

Percentage of Americans who say they’re not sure whether the U.S. or [SlobodanMilosevic|Slobodan Milosevic] won the [War|war] in [Kosovo|Kosovo]

: 40

Number of [VietnamWar|Vietnam-era] [AirTravel|helicopters] that the U.S. donated to [Mexico|Mexico] for [Drugs|drug] control between [1990s|1996] and 1997

: 73

Percentage of them that the U.S. agreed to take back last [Summer|summer] after [Mexico|Mexico] found them defective

: 100

Factor by which the 123,500 acres of [Drugs|coca] that [Colombia|Colombia] reports eradicating last year exceeds [CIA|CIA] estimates

: 4

Number of years since [1990s|1997’s] Balanced Budget Act set discretionary spending caps that spending has not exceeded them

: 0

Estimated number of illiterates in [India|India’s] population as it reached one billion last [August|August]

: 300,000,000

Number of [Europe|European] countries with a lower adult literacy rate than that of [Britain|England]

: 2

Amount a clerical error has cost the [Britain|British] government in excess payments to the [RoyalFamily|Queen] since [1990s|1991]

: $31,500,000

Legal fees paid by [RoyalFamily|Princess Diana’s] memorial fund this year to stop the Franklin Mint’s sale of Diana souvenirs

: $48,000

Ratio of daily queries on [Death|burial at sea] received by the Coast Guard last [August|August] to those received a year earlier

: 3:1

Minimum number of [Army|U.S. Army] bases in which space has been reserved for [Witch|Wiccan] [Business|soldiers’] [Holiday|seasonal rites]

: 8

Chances that one of the ten bishop-approved [CatholicFaith|Catholic exorcists] practicing in the U.S. was approved since [1990s|1993]

: 9 in 10

Number of times [CBS|CBS’s] press release for [JesusChrist|Jesus], the miniseries, mentions the “billions‚” of [Christianity|Christians] He inspired

: 2
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