Get Access to Print and Digital for $23.99 per year.
Subscribe for Full Access

Number of [RepublicanParty|G.O.P.] [Democracy|presidential] conventions since [1910s|1911] with a larger percentage of [Race|black] delegates than last [Summer|summer’s]

: 5

Damages for war [Crime|crimes] that a U.S. court has ordered [Serbia|Serb] leader Radovan Karadzic to pay 14 [Bosnia|Bosnian] plaintiffs

: $745,000,000

Estimated [Democracy|voter registration rate] among [Kosovo|Kosovo] [Serbia|Serbs], whose leaders are calling for a boycott of this [Fall|fall’s] elections there

: 2

Estimated [Democracy|voter registration rate] among [Kosovo|Kosovo] [Albania|Albanians] last [August|August]

: 83

Factor by which annual [USMilitary|U.S. military] aid to [Colombia|Colombia] has increased since then

: 31

Factor by which [Drugs|cocaine] production in [Colombia|Colombia] has increased since [1990s|1995]

: 2

Price in [Kenya|Kenya] of 100 units of nevirapine, a drug that prevents [Motherhood|mother]-to-[Child|child] [AIDS|HIV] transmission

: $874

Factor by which pregnancy makes a [Women|woman] more [Ugliness|attractive] to [Disease|malaria-carrying] [Mosquito|mosquitoes]

: 2

Percentage change since last year in the number of [Death|deaths] in [Britain|Britain] due to the human form of [MadCowDisease|mad cow disease]

: +175

Number of U.S. [Sheep|sheep] and elk that have tested positive for a variant of [MadCowDisease|mad cow disease] in the last year

: 60

Percentage by which 11 million [Death|unexplained lobster deaths] reduced [LongIsland|Long Island] Sound’s [Lobster|lobster] harvest last [Fall|fall]

: 90

Tons of [Pollution|SF5CF3], a synthetic [GlobalWarming|greenhouse gas], [Science|discovered] this year to have accumulated in the atmosphere since [1950s|1950]

: 4,000

Ratio of destructiveness to the [GlobalWarming|ozone] layer of a molecule of carbon dioxide to that of a molecule of SF5CF3

: 1:18,000

Number of Americans federally registered as [Democracy|presidential candidates] this year

: 239

Percentage of [RepublicanParty|G.O.P.] delegates at the [1910s|1912] and 2000 conventions, respectively, who identified themselves as [Race|black]

: 6, 4.1

Percentage of House votes cast by [DickCheney|Dick Cheney] and [AlGore|Al Gore] on [Abortion|abortion] between [1970s|1979] and [1980s|1984] that were the same

: 93

Number of House [Abortion|abortion] bills voted on since [1990s|1994] for every campaign-finance bill [Democracy|voted] on

: 9

Number of years that a Philip Morris consultant was also working as [GeorgeWBush|George W. Bush’s] gubernatorial campaign manager

: 2

Damages that 5 [Tobacco|tobacco] companies were ordered to pay plaintiffs last [July|July] in a [Florida|Florida] class-action suit

: $144,800,000,000

Months before this that [Florida|Florida] reduced its appeal bond fee from 100 percent of damages to a maximum of $100 million

: 2

Number of Colt [Firearms|revolvers] that a [Texas|Texas] judge repaired during jury selection in a capital-[Murder|murder] trial last [Fall|fall]

: 2

Estimated tons of [Pollution|lead] contained in the [Science|estimated] 315 million [Technology|computers] that will be obsolete by 2004

: 600,000

Number of [Literature|novels] by a current vice [Democracy|presidential] candidate’s [Marriage|wife] wherein a vice president dies [Crime|in flagrante delicto]

: 1

Minimum number of times that Senator [JohnMcCain|John McCain] winked while endorsing [GeorgeWBush|George W. Bush] at last [Summer|summer’s] convention

: 5

Column inches that the _ [NewYorkTimes|New York Times]_ devoted last [August|August] 13 to [JoeLieberman|Joe Lieberman’s] resemblance to actor Sam Jaffe

: 9

Minimum number of months required for a [Duck|lame duck] to fully recover

: 3

Year in which [Science|scientists] confirmed that subjecting newborn [Animal|rats] to [Suffering|pain] may have long-term neurological effects

: 2000

Percentage change since [1980s|1986] in the annual number of U.S. [Science|patents] awarded for a gene or gene fragment

: +6,519

Average number of miles by which the [Transportation|Concorde] flies closer to the [Sun|sun] than other passenger [AirTravel|planes]

: 4.7

Tons by which the Earth’s weight was [Science|discovered] this year to have been overestimated

: 8.8 X 10^18

Percentage change since [1970s|1978] in the number of Americans who say they believe in [Superstition|ghosts]

: +200

Number of U.S. houses that are really haunted, according to the [SupernaturalBeing|Ghost] [Science|Research Society]

: 789

Estimated number of [Mendacity|fake] haunted houses operating commercially in the [UnitedStates|United States] last [October|October]

: 3,000

Rank of Ravalli among [Montana|Montana] counties with the largest growth rate in both population and [Fire|fire] damage since [1990s|1992]

: 1

Average number of [Death|corpses] per acre at the University of [Tennessee|Tennessee’s] “body [Agriculture|farm],‚” for the [Medicine|study] of decomposition

: 10

Average number of people living per square mile in the [Palestine|Gaza Strip], [NewJersey|New] Jersey, and [Japan|Japan], respectively

: 8,000, 1,100, 828

[Days|Days] after the group accepted the offer that the mayor vetoed the deal as “insulting‚”

: 4

Amount a [Illinois|Chicago] [Suburbs|suburb’s] city council offered a [Islam|Muslim] group last [June|June] to abandon its plans for a mosque there

: $200,000
Close
“An unexpectedly excellent magazine that stands out amid a homogenized media landscape.” —the New York Times
Subscribe now

Debug