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Percentage voted down, pending, and passed, respectively

: 58, 28, 14

Percentage of Americans who say “no one” is the leader of the [DemocraticParty|Democratic Party]

: 10

Number of bills to reform U.S. [Democracy|election] procedures introduced in state legislatures since last [November|November]

: 1,775

Number of [Business|business] days given [Nevada|Nevada] citizens last [Summer|summer] as notice of the only public hearing on the 7,300-square-foot site

: 10

Age, in months, at which an [Child|infant] can distinguish between a [Bird|bird] and an [Transportation|airplane]

: 9

[Prison|Prison] sentence, in years, received in [June|June] by an [Oregon|Oregon] [Dissent|activist] for setting [Fire|fire] to a [Driving|car] dealership

: 23

Number of cars destroyed in the [Fire|fire]

: 3

Number of [Days|days] a [Quebec|Quebec] protester was [Prison|jailed] in [April|April] for allegedly catapulting three stuffed [Animal|animals] at [Policing|police]

: 17

Number of [TurkeyBird|turkeys] raised in the United States last year, per American

: 0.95

Percentage change since [1990s|1999] in annual sales of [Tofu|Tofurky]

: +43

Ratio of [NewYork|New York] [Bird|bird] [Death|deaths] last [Summer|summer] attributed to West Nile virus to those attributed to [Pollution|pollution]

: 2:3

Percentage of [Manhattan|Manhattan’s] population [Death|killed] during the cholera epidemic of 1832

: 50

Minimum number of U.S. [Food|food] products recalled in the last year due to contamination from StarLink [Corn|corn]

: 336

Total cumulative profit earned by the [Finance|Nasdaq’s] 4,200 companies since [September|September] [1990s|1995]

: 0

Amount spent last year on [Banking|company credit cards] issued to [FederalGovernment|federal government] [Jobs|employees]

: $17,300,000,000

Number of high-security federal buildings that [Espionage|undercover U.S. agents] entered last year using [Mendacity|fake I.D].

: 19

Number of years that [OsamaBinLaden|Osama bin Laden’s] half-brother owned the [Houston|Houston] [AirTravel|Gulf Airport] before his death in [1980s|1988]

: 6

Number of years since then that [AirTravel|the airport] has been owned by his estate

: 13

Percentage change since [1990s|1999] in the annual number of ships worldwide attacked by [Piracy|pirates]

: +57

Estimated percentage change since [1990s|1997] in the population of two [LivingOrganism|species] of vultures in [India|India]

: ???90

Number of sparrows requested by [China|Chinese] [Agriculture|farmers] in [September|September] to help end a plague of locusts

: 20,000

Number of [Italy|Italian] [Policing|police] instructors who were trained for [July|July’s] Genoa summit by L.A. sheriff’s department officers

: 32

Members of [Congress|Congress] who [Democracy|voted] against this [Fall|fall’s] resolution to authorize an armed response to [September11|September 11’s] [Terrorism|attack]

: 1

Members who [Democracy|voted] against the [1960s|1964] [VietnamWar|Gulf of Tonkin Resolution] to authorize further U.S. attacks on [Vietnam|Vietnam]

: 2

Chances that a [Army|U.S. soldier] in the [VietnamWar|Vietnam War] volunteered

: 4 in 5

Chance that a [Army|U.S. soldier] in [WWII|World War II] did so

: 1 in 3

Number of deserters from the [USMilitary|U.S. military] last year

: 5,320

Chance that a [Immigration|foreign-born] U.S. resident’s country of origin has undergone U.S. occupation or attack since [1940s|1945]

: 1 in 6

Year in which the [France|French] recognized the [Murder|murder] of two thirds of [Turkey|Turkey’s] [Armenia|Armenians] during World War I as “[WarCrime|genocide]”

: 2001

Number of [Days|days] after [Turkey|Turkey] canceled a major order from a [France|French] defense contractor

: 5

Percentage of Americans who live within a half mile of [Nuclear|nuclear-waste] transport routes to a proposed dump in [Nevada|Nevada]

: 18

Percentage change since [1990s|1996] in the number of U.S. apprehensions of people trying to [Immigration|cross] the [Mexico|Mexican] border

: +9

Percentage change since then in the number of U.S. border guards assigned there

: +60

Percentage change since [1990s|1999] in the number of people who died on U.S. soil while [Immigration|crossing] the border illegally

: +56

Estimated number of [Colombia|Colombians] who live in “[BillClinton|Bill Clinton] ,” a [Homelessness|homeless] settlement near Cartagena

: 10,000

Factor by which the number of [Palestine|West Bank] houses demolished by [Israel|Israel] this year exceeds the number demolished last year

: 8

Weeks before the World Trade Center [Terrorism|attack] that [ArielSharon|Ariel Sharon] referred to [YasirArafat|Yasir Arafat] as “our bin Laden”

: 11

[Hours|Hours] after the [September11|September 11] [Terrorism|attack] that an [Alaska|Alaska] [HouseOfRepresentatives|congressman] speculated that it may have been committed by “eco-terrorists”

: 9

Rank of [Energy|gas] mileage among the 35 things Americans say they look for in buying a [Transportation|new car or truck]

: 20
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