Date on which the results of a 13-member [Media|major-media] consortium’s 2000 [Democracy|election] recount were to be made public
: 9/24Total new [Taxes|tax] cuts for U.S. [Business|businesses] approved by the [HouseOfRepresentatives|House of Representatives] in [October|October]
: $146,000,000,000Ratio of [NewYorkCity|New York City] [Poverty|welfare] recipients whose benefits ended this year to the number of [Policing|police] officers there
: 1:1Percentage change between [1990s|1998] and 1999 in the number of [Women|women] [Labor|construction workers]
: +36Percentage change since [1990s|1994] in the number of [Boy|boys] on competitive U.S. [Education|high school] [Cheerleading|cheerleading] squads
: +470Years after Ernest Hemingway [Suicide|killed] himself that his transsexual son died last [Fall|fall] in a [Florida|Miami] [Women|women’s] [Prison|jail]
: 40Number of members of the rock band [RockMusic|Anthrax] who say they are hoarding [Anthrax|Cipro] so as to avoid an “ironic death”
: 1Minimum number of [Anthrax|anthrax] hoaxes reported in the [UnitedStates|United States] in the three years before [September11|September 11]
: 175Estimated number of inquiries the site has received about open-[Heart|heart] [Medicine|surgery]
: 35Total number of [Business|bids] placed on [Internet|Bidforsurgery.com] since last year
: 12,600Price of a 12-hour do-it-yourself [Anger|anger-management] course from an [Internet|online vendor]
: $165Price per [Family|family] that a [PuertoRico|Puerto Rican] company charged last [December|December] for a 5-minute stay in a refrigerated [Snow|snowscape]
: $30Number of [Folly|mimes] [Guatemala|Guatemala’s] transit department hired last [April|April] to administer [Driving|driver] “[Education|education]” at busy intersections
: 20Date on which the first contract for a [Literature|book] about [September11|September 11] was signed
: 9/13[Days|Days] before this that the New York Times, a consortium member, declared the unreleased results “utterly irrelevant”
: 1Number of consortium members that ran a news story on their decision to delay publicizing the results indefinitely
: 0Number of [Minutes|minutes] of [Media|network news] coverage devoted to [Colombia|Colombia] in the month following [September11|September 11]
: 0Page on which the [NewYorkTimes|New York Times] reported the [EPA|EPA’s] 7-year extension of [Science|genetically modified] [Corn|corn] [Business|sales] last [Fall|fall]
: C6Chance that a “GMO-free”[Food|food] product studied last [April|April] contained no genetically modified ingredients
: 1 in 5Percentage of [Chicago|Chicago] [Fish|sushi] chefs who are of [Japan|Japanese] descent
: 29Percentage who are of [Mexico|Mexican] or [Ecuador|Ecuadoran] descent
: 30Number of years since [FoundingFathers|1776] in which no nation was at [War|war]
: 0Number of [Death|deaths] that resulted
: 2Number of [Manhattan|Manhattan] buildings destroyed in the [Fire|fire] of 1835
: 674Number of the world’s ten tallest buildings that are in [Asia|Asia]
: 8Chance that a [Death|death] caused by international [Terrorism|terrorism] during that period occurred in [Asia|Asia]
: 1 in 2Ratio of [Business|businesses] to military sites attacked by international [Terrorism|terrorists] between [1990s|1995] and 2000
: 38:1Number of [Canada|Montreal] stores vandalized last year for mounting [Christmas|Christmas] displays in [November|November]
: 14Internal code number the [Britain|British] census has assigned to citizens who cited their [Religion|religion] as “Jedi Knight”
: 896Months after the [Y2K|millennium] that [Dublin|Dublin] plans to complete the erection of its 394-foot [Folly|Millennium Spike]
: 20Estimated amount [Ohio|Cleveland] has spent in the last two years fulfilling [Y2K|Y2K]-protection contracts
: $11,000,000Estimated number of [Minutes|minutes] after the [Cat|cat] was released on its first test run that it was [Death|killed] by a [Taxes|taxi]
: 10Minimum number of [Cat|cats] fitted with high-tech listening equipment in a [1960s|1967] [CIA|CIA] project
: 1Minimum number that succeeded in breaching security
: 50Estimated number of mock commando raids on U.S. [Nuclear|nuclear-weapons] facilities that have been staged since [1990s|1995]
: 100Maximum number of gallons of [Oil|oil] stored under the [September11|World Trade Center] on a given day
: 86,000Estimated percentage of U.S. [Energy|electricity] demand that could be met by covering the nation’s roofs with [GreenEnergy|solar panels]
: 27Percentage change since [1980s|1980] in [FederalGovernment|federal funding] for [Science|research] on renewable [Energy|energy] sources
: ???83Earliest year in which the dredging might begin
: 2004Ratio of the projected cost of General Electric’s dredging of its [Pollution|PCBs] from the Hudson River to its total profits last year
: 1:280