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[ February 2008 ]

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Minimum number of [September11|9/11] memorials constructed so far in [NewYorkCity|New York City]

: 700
February 2008 • Source: Cal Snyder (N.Y.C.)

Ratio of the total square footage of the world’s [WalMart|Wal-Marts] to that of [Manhattan|Manhattan]

: 9:7
February 2008 • Source: Wal-Mart (Bentonville, Ark.)/ U.S. Census Bureau (Suitland, Md.)

Percentage of Americans who said they were among the “have-nots‚” in [1980s|1988] and last year, respectively

: 17, 34
February 2008 • Source: Pew Research Center for the People and the Press (Washington)

Percentage change since [1990s|1999] in the number of Americans on [HealthCare|Medicaid]

: +34
February 2008 • Source: U.S. Census Bureau (Suitland, Md.)/Center for Studying Health System Change (Washington)

Portion of U.S. [Doctor|doctors] who now say they limit or no longer accept new [HealthCare|Medicaid] patients

: 1/2
February 2008 • Source: U.S. Census Bureau (Suitland, Md.)/Center for Studying Health System Change (Washington)

Portion of the $1.7 billion in federal [HurricaneKatrina|Hurricane Katrina] relief spent by [Mississippi|Mississippi] that has benefited [Poverty|poor] residents

: 1/10
February 2008 • Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development/Mississippi Development Authority (Jackson)

Percentage of post-[HurricaneKatrina|Katrina] recovery [Corruption|contracts] that were awarded without full and open competition

: 70
February 2008 • Source: Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (Washington)

Amount that D.C. city officials were found last [Fall|fall] to have embezzled through a dummy firm called Bilkemor LLC

: $346,700
February 2008 • Source: Dan Keating, Washington Post

Government salary at which Bernard Kerik in [1990s|1999] said that he felt like he was on “welfare‚”

: $150,500
February 2008 • Source: U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (N.Y.C.)/New York City Department of Corrections

Percentage of likely [RepublicanParty|Republican] voters last [October|October] who knew that [RudolphGiuliani|Rudolph Giuliani] was pro-choice

: 37
February 2008 • Source: USA Today-Gallup Poll (Washington)

Ratio of this to the total military spending on both wars so far

: 1:1
February 2008 • Source: Linda Bilmes, Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.)/U.S. Department of Defense

Minimum number of U.S. [BoyScouts|Boy Scout] or Cub Scout troops that are sponsored by [Islam|Islamic] organizations

: 97
February 2008 • Source: Boy Scouts of America (Irving, Tex.)

Year by which an [Iran|Iranian] automaker plans to build the first “Islamic car‚”

: 2011
February 2008 • Source: Iran Khodro Industrial Group (Tehran)

Size in acres of the world’s largest handmade carpet, completed in [Iran|Iran] last [Summer|summer]

: 1.4
February 2008 • Source: Iran Carpet Co. (Tehran)

Percentage of U.S. consumers of [Judaism|kosher] [Food|food] who buy it because they lack [Islam|halal] options

: 16
February 2008 • Source: Mintel International Group (Chicago)

Number of different skin tones that members of the [Asia|South Asian] matchmaking site Shaadi.com can register as having

: 6
February 2008 • Source: Shaadi.com (N.Y.C.)

Number of different “castes‚” to which they can register as belonging

: 275
February 2008 • Source: Shaadi.com (N.Y.C.)

Number of members of The Atlasphere, an [Evil|Objectivist] dating site

: 7,125
February 2008 • Source: TheAtlasphere.com (Albuquerque)

Amount that [Prostitute|prostitutes] at [Nevada|Nevada]’s BunnyRanch have contributed to [LibertarianParty|Ron Paul], according to the brothel’s owner

: $15,000
February 2008 • Source: Dennis Hof (Carson City, Nev.)

Number of U.S. states where a court has held that [Women|women] must return engagement rings if the [Marriage|wedding] doesn’t happen

: 18
February 2008 • Source: Harper's research

Projected total cost of [Medicine|medical] care for U.S. [Veterans|veterans] of the [Iraq|Iraq] and [Afghanistan|Afghanistan] wars

: $500,000,000,000
February 2008 • Source: Linda Bilmes, Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.)/U.S. Department of Defense

Chance that an [Iraq|Iraq] war [Veterans|veteran] who has served two or more tours now has [PTSD|post-traumatic stress disorder]

: 1 in 4
February 2008 • Source: Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (Silver Spring, Md.)

Percentage change since [1990s|1997] in the number of [VietnamWar|Vietnam-era] [Veterans|veterans] seeking treatment for [PTSD|PTSD]

: +108
February 2008 • Source: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Number of confirmed [Suicide|suicides] in the [Army|U.S. Army] in 2006

: 102
February 2008 • Source: Army G-1 Human Resources Policy Directorate (Washington)/ U.S. Army Medical Command (Fort Sam Houston, Tex.)

Number of years since accurate record-keeping began in [1980s|1981] that the rate was as high

: 0
February 2008 • Source: Army G-1 Human Resources Policy Directorate (Washington)/ U.S. Army Medical Command (Fort Sam Houston, Tex.)

Percentage of [DemocraticParty|Democrats] in 2006 who said they supported the [Iraq|Iraq] war when it began

: 21
February 2008 • Source: Polimetrix, Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.)/Gary Jacobson, University of California, San Diego

Percentage of [DemocraticParty|Democrats] in [March|March] 2003 who said they supported the war

: 46
February 2008 • Source: Polimetrix, Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.)/Gary Jacobson, University of California, San Diego

Number of the three [Israel|Israeli]-[Palestine|Palestinian] peace summits since [1970s|1979] that were held in the last two years of a U.S. presidency

: 3
February 2008 • Source: Jewish Voice for Peace (Oakland)

Chances that an [Israel|Israeli] settlement in the [Palestine|West Bank] has built beyond its official borders

: 9 in 10
February 2008 • Source: Peace Now (Jerusalem)

Number of checkpoints and barriers in the [Palestine|West Bank] that were removed between [April|April] and [October|October] of last year

: 80
February 2008 • Source: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Jerusalem)

Number of new checkpoints and barriers that were added

: 115
February 2008 • Source: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Jerusalem)

Number of suspected living [Nazi|Nazis] still being hunted by the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s “Operation Last Chance‚”

: 488
February 2008 • Source: Simon Wiesenthal Center (Jerusalem)

Length, in feet, of a prehistoric sea scorpion whose fossil was first reported last [November|November]

: 8.2
February 2008 • Source: Simon Braddy, University of Bristol (Bristol, U.K.)

Number of votes tallied in an online [Greenpeace|Greenpeace] poll last [Fall|fall] to name a humpback [Whale|whale] in the South [PacificOcean|Pacific]

: 152,000
February 2008 • Source: Greenpeace International (Amsterdam)

Percentage that favored the name “Mr. Splashy Pants‚”

: 79
February 2008 • Source: Greenpeace International (Amsterdam)

Number of the 195 accredited U.S. law [Education|schools] that offer courses in [Law|animal law]

: 90
February 2008 • Source: Animal Legal Defense Fund (Cotati, Calif.)/American Bar Association (Chicago)

Total liability for [IntellectualProperty|copyright] infringement that one [Utah|Utah] professor estimates he amasses in a typical day

: $12,450,000
February 2008 • Source: John Tehranian, University of Utah (Salt Lake City)

Number of customers who have gotten the two-for-one special by saying “I’m [Prostitute|pimpin]’ for Paul‚”

: 58
February 2008 • Source: Dennis Hof (Carson City, Nev.)

Average percentage by which a [Women|woman]’s left [Breast|breast] is larger than her right

: 4
February 2008 • Source: Diane Scutt, University of Liverpool (Liverpool, U.K.)
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