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Amount the Treasury Department will borrow this year to pay for the [Taxes|tax] refund

: $51,000,000,000

Minimum number of garden [Gnome|gnomes] relocated to the forest since [1990s|1996] by [France|France’s] Garden Gnome Liberation Front

: 6,000

Estimated number of [Mammal|mink] released from a Spanish [Murder|fur] [Agriculture|farm] in [July|July] by unidentified [AnimalRights|activists]

: 13,000

Minimum number of [Plants|plant] [LivingOrganism|species] that can be found only in [Colombia|Colombia]

: 15,000

Ratio of acres of [Colombia|Colombia] sprayed with defoliants last year to acres of [Vietnam|Vietnam] sprayed with [VietnamWar|Agent Orange] in [1960s|1964]

: 3:2

Ratio of [Oregon|Oregon] rainfall in [April|April] 2000 to rainfall last April after a [NativeAmerican|Native American] tribe held a rain ceremony there

: 2:3

Amount the tribe subsequently billed an [Oregon|Oregon] power company for costs associated with the ceremony

: $32,000

Percentage of his presidency that [GeorgeWBush|George W. Bush] has spent at or en route to vacation spots

: 42

Amount of [Democracy|campaign] contributions that Sen. James Jeffords has returned since leaving the [RepublicanParty|Republican Party] in [May|May]

: $17,470

Estimated amount of new contributions he has received since then

: $45,000

Number of “[Fashion|trouser accidents]” requiring [Medicine|hospital] treatment in [Britain|Britain] in [1990s|1999]

: 5,945

Amount it had projected spending to service U.S. [Finance|debt] this year, before the [Taxes|tax] bill passed

: $57,000,000,000

Maximum domestic damages at which a U.S. [Law|law] caps U.S. liability for a [Nuclear|nuclear] accident in [Space|space]

: $9,500,000,000

Maximum total foreign damages at which the same law caps U.S. liability for such an accident

: $100,000,000

Maximum reparation per survivor of [Nazi|Nazi] [Slavery|slave-labor] camps won in a class-action lawsuit settled last [May|May]

: $7,038

Average amount in legal fees each of the winning [Lawyer|lawyers] will receive

: $1,089,325

Spending [Money|money] that [SlobodanMilosevic|Slobodan Milosevic] can earn per day for laundry duty at the [UnitedNations|U.N.] [Prison|prison] at The Hague

: $2

Amount [Romania|Romania] plans to spend by 2003 to build a [Entertainment|Count Dracula theme park]

: $20,000,000

Number of [GeorgeWBush|George W. Bush] [Halloween|Halloween] masks [Business|sold] nationwide last year by a [NewYorkCity|New York] distributor

: 15,811

Number of [AlGore|Al Gore] masks [Business|sold]

: 15,739

Number of [Censorship|surveillance cameras] installed at [Radio|WBAI’s] studios in [May|May] to monitor remaining [Jobs|employees]

: 8

Number of abstentions to reaffirming the treaty last year besides those of the [UnitedStates|United States], [Israel|Israel], and [Micronesia|Micronesia]

: 0

Number of “[Murder|kills]” a [AirForce|U.S. Air Force] report [Insect|anticipates] achieving with [Space|space-based lasers] in the future

: very many

Percentage of Americans who say [Israel|Israel] and the [MiddleEast|Arab nations] will never “be able to settle their differences and live in peace”

: 64

Percentage of [Russia|Russian] [Nuclear|nuclear] [Science|scientists] who say they are willing to work on another country’s [Missile|missile]-defense program

: 21

Minimum number of nations currently targeted by the [UnitedStates|United States] ‘ integrated [Nuclear|nuclear-war] plan

: 5

Percentage change in the incidence of worker contamination at Los Alamos labs between [1990s|1993] and 1995

: +76

Chances that an accident there in [1990s|1994] resulted in a “loss of control of radioactive material”

: 2 in 3

Chance that an accident resulted in a “loss of control of classified matter”

: 1 in 20

Number of staff members fired from [NewYorkCity|New York’s] nonprofit [Media|WBAI]-FM since [December|December] and banned from its premises

: 12

Number of “[WMD|weapons of mass destruction]” allowed in [Space|space], according to a [1960s|1967] treaty ratified by the [UnitedStates|United States]

: 0

Number of [Television|network-TV] dramas scheduled this [Fall|fall] whose protagonists are [Jobs|employed] in [Law|law] enforcement or the legal system

: 17

Chances that an American believes that the [FirstAmendment|First Amendment]”goes too far” in guaranteeing [HumanRights|rights]

: 2 in 5

Chance that an American believed this last year

: 1 in 5

Number of people [Justice|arrested] at last year’s [RepublicanParty|Republican National Convention]

: 390

Number [Justice|arrested] at [July|July’s] [G-8|G-8] summit in Genoa, [Italy|Italy]

: 298

Number of “useless laws” that [Italy|Italy’s] new prime minister promised to eliminate if [Democracy|elected]

: 60,000

Chances that a state [DeathPenalty|execution] carried out last year took place in [China|China]

: 7 in 10

Chance that the [Death|death] of a [Parenting|pregnant] [Nepal|Nepalese] is the result of an unsafe [Abortion|abortion]

: 1 in 2

Ratio of the [Death|death] rate among [Parenting|pregnant] [Women|women] in [Nepal|Nepal] to the rate for pregnant women worldwide

: 2:1
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