Amount the Treasury Department will borrow this year to pay for the [Taxes|tax] refund
: $51,000,000,000Minimum number of garden [Gnome|gnomes] relocated to the forest since [1990s|1996] by [France|France’s] Garden Gnome Liberation Front
: 6,000Estimated number of [Mammal|mink] released from a Spanish [Murder|fur] [Agriculture|farm] in [July|July] by unidentified [AnimalRights|activists]
: 13,000Minimum number of [Plants|plant] [LivingOrganism|species] that can be found only in [Colombia|Colombia]
: 15,000Ratio of acres of [Colombia|Colombia] sprayed with defoliants last year to acres of [Vietnam|Vietnam] sprayed with [VietnamWar|Agent Orange] in [1960s|1964]
: 3:2Ratio of [Oregon|Oregon] rainfall in [April|April] 2000 to rainfall last April after a [NativeAmerican|Native American] tribe held a rain ceremony there
: 2:3Amount the tribe subsequently billed an [Oregon|Oregon] power company for costs associated with the ceremony
: $32,000Percentage of his presidency that [GeorgeWBush|George W. Bush] has spent at or en route to vacation spots
: 42Amount of [Democracy|campaign] contributions that Sen. James Jeffords has returned since leaving the [RepublicanParty|Republican Party] in [May|May]
: $17,470Estimated amount of new contributions he has received since then
: $45,000Number of “[Fashion|trouser accidents]” requiring [Medicine|hospital] treatment in [Britain|Britain] in [1990s|1999]
: 5,945Amount it had projected spending to service U.S. [Finance|debt] this year, before the [Taxes|tax] bill passed
: $57,000,000,000Maximum domestic damages at which a U.S. [Law|law] caps U.S. liability for a [Nuclear|nuclear] accident in [Space|space]
: $9,500,000,000Maximum total foreign damages at which the same law caps U.S. liability for such an accident
: $100,000,000Maximum reparation per survivor of [Nazi|Nazi] [Slavery|slave-labor] camps won in a class-action lawsuit settled last [May|May]
: $7,038Average amount in legal fees each of the winning [Lawyer|lawyers] will receive
: $1,089,325Spending [Money|money] that [SlobodanMilosevic|Slobodan Milosevic] can earn per day for laundry duty at the [UnitedNations|U.N.] [Prison|prison] at The Hague
: $2Amount [Romania|Romania] plans to spend by 2003 to build a [Entertainment|Count Dracula theme park]
: $20,000,000Number of [GeorgeWBush|George W. Bush] [Halloween|Halloween] masks [Business|sold] nationwide last year by a [NewYorkCity|New York] distributor
: 15,811Number of [AlGore|Al Gore] masks [Business|sold]
: 15,739Number of [Censorship|surveillance cameras] installed at [Radio|WBAI’s] studios in [May|May] to monitor remaining [Jobs|employees]
: 8Number of abstentions to reaffirming the treaty last year besides those of the [UnitedStates|United States], [Israel|Israel], and [Micronesia|Micronesia]
: 0Number of “[Murder|kills]” a [AirForce|U.S. Air Force] report [Insect|anticipates] achieving with [Space|space-based lasers] in the future
: very manyPercentage of Americans who say [Israel|Israel] and the [MiddleEast|Arab nations] will never “be able to settle their differences and live in peace”
: 64Percentage of [Russia|Russian] [Nuclear|nuclear] [Science|scientists] who say they are willing to work on another country’s [Missile|missile]-defense program
: 21Minimum number of nations currently targeted by the [UnitedStates|United States] ‘ integrated [Nuclear|nuclear-war] plan
: 5Percentage change in the incidence of worker contamination at Los Alamos labs between [1990s|1993] and 1995
: +76Chances that an accident there in [1990s|1994] resulted in a “loss of control of radioactive material”
: 2 in 3Chance that an accident resulted in a “loss of control of classified matter”
: 1 in 20Number of staff members fired from [NewYorkCity|New York’s] nonprofit [Media|WBAI]-FM since [December|December] and banned from its premises
: 12Number of “[WMD|weapons of mass destruction]” allowed in [Space|space], according to a [1960s|1967] treaty ratified by the [UnitedStates|United States]
: 0Number of [Television|network-TV] dramas scheduled this [Fall|fall] whose protagonists are [Jobs|employed] in [Law|law] enforcement or the legal system
: 17Chances that an American believes that the [FirstAmendment|First Amendment]”goes too far” in guaranteeing [HumanRights|rights]
: 2 in 5Chance that an American believed this last year
: 1 in 5Number of people [Justice|arrested] at last year’s [RepublicanParty|Republican National Convention]
: 390Number [Justice|arrested] at [July|July’s] [G-8|G-8] summit in Genoa, [Italy|Italy]
: 298Number of “useless laws” that [Italy|Italy’s] new prime minister promised to eliminate if [Democracy|elected]
: 60,000Chances that a state [DeathPenalty|execution] carried out last year took place in [China|China]
: 7 in 10Chance that the [Death|death] of a [Parenting|pregnant] [Nepal|Nepalese] is the result of an unsafe [Abortion|abortion]
: 1 in 2Ratio of the [Death|death] rate among [Parenting|pregnant] [Women|women] in [Nepal|Nepal] to the rate for pregnant women worldwide
: 2:1