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Total number of [Nuclear|nuclear] [Weapons|weapons] worldwide when the first nuclear test [Law|ban] negotiations began in [1950s|1958]

: 10,713

Square miles of errant Antarctic [Ice|icebergs] being tracked by the National Ice Center in [WashingtonDC|Washington, D.C.]

: 10,000

Number of [Pollution|toxic spills] reported within one mile of the [BillClinton|Clintons] ‘ new house in Chappaqua, [NewYork|New York]

: 43

Number of objects in the [Brooklyn|Brooklyn Museum’s] permanent collection that are made with [Excretion|human dung]

: 4

Average number of death threats received each week this year by [NewYorkCity|New York City] Mayor [RudolphGiuliani|Rudolph Giuliani]

: 2

Number of [Dog|dogs] and [Prostitute|whores] of whom [YasirArafat|Yasir Arafat] is the son, according to [Syria|Syria’s] defense minister

: 120,000

Percentage change in the number of [Israel|Israelis] living on the [Palestine|West Bank] since the signing of [1990s|1993’s] Oslo peace accords

: +50

Chance that an ethnic [Albania|Albanian] left [Kosovo|Kosovo] while [Serbia|Serbian] troops controlled the region last [Spring|spring]

: 1 in 2

Chance that a [Serbia|Serb] has left [Kosovo|Kosovo] since [NATO|NATO] troops took it over last [June|June]

: 1 in 2

Estimated number of the 222,200 “armor-piercing bomblets‚” dropped on [Kosovo|Kosovo] last [Spring|spring] that remain unexploded

: 11,110

Year in which the [Pentagon|Pentagon’s] military [Education|training] program for [Indonesia|Indonesian] troops ended

: 1998

Average number of U.S. [Weapons|cruise missiles] launched per month during the [BillClinton|Clinton] Administration

: 11

Chance that an American favors the resumption of any form of [Nuclear|nuclear-weapons] testing

: 1 in 10

Percentage by which the number had changed by the time the Limited Test Ban Treaty was signed in [1960s|1963]

: +220

Percentage by which it has changed since then

: ???7

Number of U.S. [Energy|nuclear reactors] that have reported safety violations since [1990s|1996]

: 102

Percentage of federal [Energy|nuclear-safety] inspectors that the [Senate|Senate] proposed laying off last year

: 37

Number of countries that have not made public their assessment of the [Y2K|Y2K] readiness of their [Computer|computer] systems

: 91

Number of countries besides [Australia|Australia] that have ever formally recognized [Indonesia|Indonesia’s] sovereignty over [EastTimor|East Timor]

: 0

Year in which [Congress|Congress] banned the [StateDepartment|State Department’s] military [Education|training] program for [Indonesia|Indonesian] troops

: 1992

Number of titles for “[Transportation|horseless carriages]‚” issued to new [Driving|car owners] in [Maine|Maine] last [Spring|spring] due to a [Y2K|Y2K] error

: 2,000

Price of a bottle of Czar Nicholas II’s [Champagne|champagne] salvaged last year from a ship [Sun|sunk] in [1910s|1916]

: $4,922

Year in which the hotel opened

: 1985

Year in which [NewYorkCity|New York’s] Marriott Marquis hotel began taking reservations for [Holiday|New Year’s Eve] [1990s|1999]

: 1983

Percentage who say they would [Democracy|vote] for Heather Locklear

: 6

Percentage who say they would [Democracy|vote] for [DonaldTrump|Donald Trump] for president over [AlGore|Al Gore] or [GeorgeWBush|George W. Bush]

: 5

Percentage of Americans who believe that the [Media|media] “hurt [Democracy|democracy] ‚”

: 38

[Days|Days] before Time Warner’s Fortune Global Forum opened in [China|China] last [Fall|fall] that China banned Time’s special China issue

: 6

Percentage change in the number of joint ventures signed between [Cuba|Cuba] and foreign companies since [1990s|1992]

: +886

Estimated revenue that the [UnitedNations|U.N.] generates each year for [NewYorkCity|New York City]

: $3,300,000,000

Amount by which the [UnitedNations|U.N.’s] estimate of what the U.S. owes it exceeds the [Senate|Senate’s] estimate

: $774,000,000

Billions cut from the five-year federal [Food|food] stamp budget in [1990s|1996]

: $24

Billions in new federal [Poverty|poverty] spending that the [BillClinton|President] proposed during his poverty tour last [July|July]

: $1

Chance that a U.S. juvenile offender on [Death|death] row is in [Texas|Texas]

: 1 in 3

Percentage of [Parenting|parents] who predicted that their [Child|children] would prefer more time with them

: 56

Percentage who say their greatest wish for their [Parenting|parents] is that they “spend more time with me‚”

: 11

Percentage of U.S. [Child|children] who say their greatest [Avarice|wish] for their [Parenting|parents] is that they make more [Money|money]

: 23

Chance that an American without [HealthCare|health insurance] earns at least $50,000 per year

: 1 in 4

Number of [Death|coffins] unearthed by floods in [NorthCarolina|North Carolina] last [September|September]

: 110
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