Average number of people [Murder|killed] per week by a [PopulationControl|sniper] operating in [Suburbs|suburban] [Maryland|Maryland] and [Virginia|Virginia] this [Fall|fall]
: 3Minimum percentage change since last year in [Afghanistan|Afghanistan’s] [Drugs|opium] production
: +1,000Pounds of [Nuclear|weapons-grade] [Uranium|uranium] reported to have been seized in [September|September] from a [Taxes|taxi] in [Turkey|Turkey]
: 33Ounces of black sand that the container-labeled “primarily youranuom”-actually contained
: 0.2Factor by which the cruising speed of [Space|NASA’s] new hypersonic cruise-[Missile|missile] engine exceeds that of previous missiles
: 9.5Percentage by which the speed of light has decreased in the last 20 billion years, according to [Australia|Australian] [Science|scientists]
: 0.0007Average number of miles by which the magnetic [NorthPole|North Pole] moves each year
: 25Year in which the ozone hole over [Antarctica|Antarctica] is expected to close as a result of reduced chlorofluorocarbon use
: 2050Percentage change since [1980s|1980] in the per-watt cost of solar [Energy|energy] in the United States
: ???87[Days|Days] it takes an adult in [California|Los Angeles] to breathe in more air [Pollution|pollution] than [EPA|EPA] guidelines recommend for a lifetime
: 25Ratio of the annual tariffs that [Science|developed] nations impose on one another to those they impose on [DevelopingNations|developing nations]
: 1:4Average number of [Murder|homicides] per week during the same period in [WashingtonDC|Washington, D.C.]
: 7Percentage of Americans [Polling|surveyed] who say they refused to participate in a survey during the past year
: 44Percentage of those contacted for this [Polling|survey] who refused to participate in it
: 60Fee that Sprint PCS charges its “credit-challenged” customers each time they speak with a live representative
: $3Chances of getting a hotel room in [Israel|Bethlehem] on [Christmas|Christmas] in 2000 and 2001, respectively
: 0, 9 in 10Chance that a [Israel|Bethlehem] hotel expects to be open this [Christmas|Christmas]
: 1 in 5Rank of a burning [Holiday|Yule]-log video loop among the top-rated 8-10 a.m. [Television|TV] shows in [NewYorkCity|New York City] last [Christmas|Christmas]
: 1Price of a [Child|child’s] personal [Banking|ATM] from FAO Schwarz last year
: $20,000Chances that a [Child|child] fed [Sweets|”booger”-flavored jelly beans] at a trade show this [Fall|fall] said they tasted like the real thing
: 4 in 5Number of estimates cited in each rally’s coverage in the London Times and the [NewYorkTimes|New York Times], respectively
: 2, 0Number of times [GeorgeWBush|George W. Bush] has said [OsamaBinLaden|Osama bin Laden’s] name in [Democracy|public] since [July|July] 8
: 0[Hours|Hours] after Defense Secretary [DonaldRumsfeld|Donald Rumsfeld] learned Bin Laden was a suspect that he sought reasons to “hit”[Iraq|Iraq]
: 2.5Percentage by which the [Pentagon|Pentagon’s] [September|September] order for [Sunscreen|sunblock] exceeded its last largest such order
: 70Rank of [Israel|Israel] and [Turkey|Turkey] among nations in violation of the largest number of [UnitedNations|U.N.] Security Council resolutions
: 1,2Number of [Kurdistan|Kurdish] members of [Turkey|Turkey’s] parliament [Prison|jailed] in [1990s|1994] when their party was declared illegal there
: 7Number still in [Prison|prison]
: 4Number of [Turkey|Turkish] [College|college] [Student|students] [Freedom|detained] in the last year for requesting [Kurdistan|Kurdish]-language [Education|classes]
: 1,146Organizers’ estimated attendance at this [Fall|fall’s] largest [War|peace] rallies in [London|London] and [NewYorkCity|New York], respectively
: 400,000, 25,000Estimated attendance according to [Policing|police] in each city
: 150,000, 12,000Number of names on the [StateDepartment|State Department’s] list of “suspected [Terrorism|terrorists]”
: 70,000[Minutes|Minutes] that service on two [NewYorkCity|New York] [Transportation|subway] lines was halted this [Fall|fall] after a Sikh worker was seen emerging from a hatch
: 92Amount [Colombia|Colombia] paid civilians for informing on rebels in its first five weeks of recruiting this year
: $340,000Percentage of the 223 trade [Labor|unionists] reported [Murder|murdered] or missing worldwide last year who worked in [Colombia|Colombia]
: 88Number of “sub-harm”[Suicide|suicide]”gestures” made this year by detainees held at the [USMilitary|U.S. military] base at Guantanamo Bay
: 30Minimum number of times the [UnitedStates|United States] has deployed troops abroad in its 226-year history
: 277Number of [Days|days] that the [CIA|CIA’s] museum is open to the public each year
: 0Number of countries that use the U.S. dollar as [Currency|currency]
: 10Number of other countries whose [Currency|currency] is effectively pegged to the dollar
: 34