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Change since then in a household’s annual spending on [Medicine|medical] services, supplies, and drugs

: ???$99.69

Change since [1980s|1987] in a U.S. household’s average annual spending on [HealthCare|health insurance]

: +$323.28

Portion of the fifteen languages in which the Census Bureau will run ads this month that are [Asia|Asian]

: 2/3

Portion of the words in Webster’s New World Dictionary memorized by one non-[Britain|English]-speaking [Thailand|Thai] [Entertainment|Scrabble] champ

: 2/3

Percentage of the tiles included in [Entertainment|Scrabble] games produced in the U.S. this year that will be made in [China|China]

: 100

Ratio of the number of live [TurkeyBird|turkeys] imported to the U.S. last year to the number exported

: 3:2

Percentage of [TurkeyBird|turkeys] tested by the [Agriculture|Agriculture] Department in [1990s|1996] and 1997 that were infected by [Disease|campylobacteria]

: 90

Rank of [Disease|campylobacteria] among the most common bacterial causes of diarrheal illness in the U.S.

: 1

Percentage change since [1990s|1996] in the number of American adults using the [Internet|Internet] to obtain [HealthCare|health-care] information

: +218

Margin by which the ten-member [Kansas|Kansas] Board of [Education|Education] [Democracy|voted] to drop human [Evolution|evolution] from the curriculum this year

: 2

Number of [Democracy|presidential] candidates besides [Basketball|Bill Bradley] who have publicly criticized the [Kansas|Kansas] board’s decision

: 0

Average [Basketball|NBA] player’s salary in Bill Bradley’s rookie season

: $46,700

Number of the last ten [Basketball|WNBA] coaching vacancies that have been filled by [Men|men]

: 7

Ratio of lines devoted to [HillaryClinton|Hillary Rodham Clinton] in the [1990s|1999] Who’s Who in America to those devoted to [BillClinton|her husband]

: 4:1

Percentage of Americans who said in [November|November] [1990s|1991] that they had not “heard enough‚” about [BillClinton|Bill Clinton]

: 82

Number of consecutive [Days|days] last [Spring|spring] that [Schlock|Michael Moore] trained a [Television|camera] on Lucianne Goldberg’s [Housing|apartment]

: 45

Number of months that a [Religion|Christian] group has [Train|trained] a camera on [Jerusalem|Jerusalem’s] Golden Gate, hoping to [Cinema|film] [JesusChrist|Christ’s] return

: 7

Number of [Entertainment|films] about [Y2K|Y2K disasters] that [Cinema|Hollywood] studios are planning to release in the next four months

: 0

Ratio of the revenue [Russia|Russia] expects to collect this year to the revenue [NewYorkCity|New York City] collected

: 7:8

Percentage of American [Entertainment|ER] viewers who say they learn important [HealthCare|health-care] information from the [Television|program]

: 53

Percentage change since [1990s|1995] in the number of [Medicine|surgeons] worldwide using [Animal|maggots] to cleanse wounds

: +400

Estimated portion of annual spending on the treatment of [Gun|gunshot] wounds that comes from the [FederalGovernment|federal government]

: 1/2

Estimated tons of [Firearms|depleted-uranium] from bullets fired in the [GulfWar|Gulf War] that are still scattered across the battlefields

: 320

Total U.S. arms sales to [Indonesia|Indonesia] since it invaded [EastTimor|East Timor] in [1970s|1975]

: $1,200,000,000

Amount by which the [BillClinton|President] ‘s ten-year [War|defense] budget exceeds that of House [DemocraticParty|Democrats]

: $158,000,000

Amount by which it exceeds that of House [RepublicanParty|Republicans]

: $206,000,000

Total votes by which [DemocraticParty|Democrats] lost six key districts and the chance to regain control of the House last year

: 21,898

Percentage points by which [Democracy|voter] turnout for [Russia|Russia’s] last national election exceeded U.S. turnout in [1990s|1996]

: 21

Number of [WashingtonDC|Washington, D.C.], [Policing|police] assigned to a [Nazi|neo-Nazi American Nationalist Party] [March|march] last [August|August]

: 1,426

Average number of arrests made last year in [Justice|New York City] for every [Crime|crime] reported there

: 1.1

Number of [Harlem|East Harlem] [Banking|ATM machines] offering free service for the neighborhood’s 11,000 [Poverty|welfare] recipients

: 7

Number of Upper East Side [Banking|ATM machines] offering free service for the neighborhood’s 700 [Poverty|welfare] recipients

: 120

Average percentage of revenue on a [Wisconsin|Wisconsin] for-profit [Poverty|welfare] agency’s [Corruption|contract] this year that will be profit

: 17.1

Average percentage of revenue of a [Wealth|Fortune] 500 [Business|company] last year that was profit

: 5.3

Chance that a [Texas|Texan] living below the [Poverty|poverty] line receives [Welfare|welfare]

: 1 in 10

Federal [Poverty|anti-poverty] funds gr[Insect|anted] [Texas|Texas] since [1990s|1996] that have not been spent

: $149,000,000

Ratio of the average annual amount a [Caucasian|white] American spends on [Folly|lottery tickets] to what a [Race|black] American spends

: 1:5
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