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Pounds of [WMD|ordnance] that can be delivered by Boeing’s new X-45A, the world’s first [Transportation|unmanned fighter jet]

: 3,000

Average number [Death|killed] per day in the two weeks following [ArielSharon|Ariel Sharon’s] visit to the Temple Mount last [Fall|fall]

: 5.1

Chances that an [Energy|OPEC] country discloses its [Poverty|poverty] rate

: 4 in 11

Chance that the [Poverty|poverty] rate of an [Energy|OPEC] country that discloses it is less than 15 percent

: 0

Ratio of the monthly salary the [UnitedNations|U.N.] pays its native clerks in [EastTimor|East Timor] to what it pays its other [Jobs|employees] there

: 1:5.6

Number of [Religion|Falun Gong] members [Justice|arrested] in [China|China] who have died in, en route to, or shortly after their release from [Prison|prison]

: 53

[Days|Days] after his appointment last [July|July] that [Japan|Japan’s] top [Finance|finance] regulator resigned over “suspicious‚” payments he’d received

: 26

Months before the [Japan|Japanese] bombed [WWII|Pearl] Harbor that the [UnitedStates|United States] enacted a complete embargo on trade with Japan

: 5

Number of times that visiting foreign [War|defense] ministers have been injured by the [Pentagon|Pentagon’s] security system since [1990s|1998]

: 2

Number of [NewYorkTimes|New York Times] articles in [1990s|1990], 1992, and 1999, respectively, that mentioned the “ [War|peace dividend‚”]

: 152, 64, 9

Average number of [Palestine|Palestinians] [War|killed] per day by [Israel|Israeli] security forces in the six years preceding the [1990s|1993] Oslo accord

: 0.4

Number of [Transportation|planes] crashed by the Wright brothers before their first successful [AirTravel|flight] on [December|December] 17, [1900s|1903]

: 1

Number of campaigns lost by the sons of [GeorgeHWBush|George H. W. Bush] before winning any

: 2

Ratio of the average duration of an 1858 [AbrahamLincoln|Lincoln]-Douglas senatorial debate to that of a [Democracy|presidential] debate this year

: 4:1

Ratio of the number of glaciers in [Montana|Montana] ‘s Glacier [NationalPark|National Park] in 1850 to the [GlobalWarming|number last year]

: 4:1

Number of the two exorcisms [JohnPaulII|Pope John Paul II] has performed since [1980s|1982] that the [Vatican|Vatican] has deemed a success

: 1

[Minutes|Minutes] required to take in “the true story of [Christmas|Christmas] ‚” at [Arkansas|Little Rock’s] Living Nativity drive-through

: 2

Rank of [BillClinton|Bill Clinton] among the “most important people in the world today,‚” according to U.S. [Education|schoolchildren]

: 1

Rank of the [JohnPaulII|Pope], [HarryPotter|J. K. Rowling], and [Yahweh|God], respectively

: 2, 13, 19

Ratio of the number of [Terrorism|attacks] on U.S. citizens or property in [LatinAmerica|Latin America] last year to those in [MiddleEast|the Middle East]

: 8:1

Change in the [Abortion|abortion] rate in [France|France] since RU-486 was introduced there in [1980s|1988]

: ???4

Price for which an eight-year-old [Colorado|Colorado] [Girl|girl] was offered for [Business|sale] by her [Motherhood|mother] over the [Internet|Internet] last year

: $4,000

Number of couples who will each receive $5,000 this year from [Internet|IUMA.com] for [Parenting|naming their baby] Iuma

: 10

Percentage change since [1990s|1991] in the number of U.S. [Parenting|babies] abandoned after leaving the [Medicine|hospital]

: +61

Number of American states in which [Medicine|physicians] may [Law|legally] prescribe clean needles to addicts

: 48

Number of these states in which pharmacists may [Law|legally] fill such prescriptions

: 26

Factor by which [Texas|Texas’s] [Prison|incarceration] rate has increased since [1990s|1990] for every 1 percent drop in its [Crime|crime] rate

: 4

Factor by which [NewYork|New York’s] incarceration rate has increased since then for every 1 percent drop in its [Crime|crime] rate

: 0.7

Percentage of Americans who say they would prefer being [Death|executed] to serving a [Prison|life sentence without parole]

: 48

Number of the one hundred countries with the world’s highest [Child|birthrates] that have approved the [Abortion|abortion] pill RU-486

: 0

Ratio of the number of [Africa|Africans] [Death|killed] by [AIDS|AIDS] last year to the number killed by warfare

: 19:1

Factor by which the number of [Region|sovereign countries] today exceeds the number in [1940s|1945]

: 3

Ratio of the number of [Agriculture|bushels of] [Wheat|wheat] one barrel of [Oil|oil] could buy in [1950s|1950] to the number it could buy today

: 1:10

Rank of the [UnitedStates|United States] among the world’s largest exporters of [Agriculture|grain] and importers of [Oil|oil]

: 1

Rank of [Estonia|Estonia] among the world’s top importers of U.S. [Diet|frogs’ legs] in [1990s|1998]

: 1

Estimated change in the size of the [Russia|Russian] population last year

: ???800,000

Change in the number of [Russia|Russian] [Democracy|voters] registered in the three months prior to [VladimirPutin|Vladimir Putin’s] election

: +1,298,090

Percentage of the votes cast in [Chechnya|Chechnya] last [March|March] that went to [VladimirPutin|Putin], according to the [Russia|Russian] government

: 51
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