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[ August 2004 ]

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Number of [September11|them] that are in [SaudiArabia|Saudi Arabia]

: 3
August 2004 • Source: World Trade Centers Association (N.Y.C.)

Number of [September11|World Trade Centers] under development worldwide since [September|September] 2001

: 26
August 2004 • Source: World Trade Centers Association (N.Y.C.)

Minimum number of U.S. firms under [Corruption|contract] in [Iraq|Iraq] that have paid federal fines, settlements, or restitution since 2000

: 7
August 2004 • Source: Project on Government Oversight (Washington)/Harper's research

Words the Times devoted last year to “[Journalism|correcting the record]” after an investigation of reporter Jayson Blair

: 7,102
August 2004 • Source: Harper's research

Words the [NewYorkTimes|New York Times] devoted last [May|May] to examining its own faulty reporting on [Iraq|Iraqi] [Weapons|weapons] of mass destruction

: 3,082
August 2004 • Source: Harper's research

Maximum voltage [NewYorkCity|New York City’s] main post office will deliver to [Animal|pigeons] during the [RepublicanParty|Republican] convention

: 8,000
August 2004 • Source: Bell Environmental Services, Inc. (Parsippany, N.J.)

Average megawattage generated there each day in [June|June]

: 4,300
August 2004 • Source: Coalition Provisional Authority (Baghdad)

Average megawattage of electricity generated in [Iraq|Iraq] each day last year before the invasion

: 4,500
August 2004 • Source: Coalition Provisional Authority (Baghdad)

Estimated year in which [Iraq|Baghdadis] first harnessed electricity, using clay pots lined with copper

: 230 b.c.
August 2004 • Source: The British Museum (London)

Year in which U.S. [Oil|oil] production peaked

: 1971
August 2004 • Source: U.S. Geological Survey (Denver)

Approval rating of [LyndonBJohnson|Lyndon Johnson] in [March|March] [1960s|1968], the month he announced he would not run for reelection

: 36
August 2004 • Source: The Gallup Organization (Princeton, N.J.)

Rank of [RonaldReagan|Ronald Reagan] among [USPresident|U.S. presidents] since [1940s|1945] with the highest average approval rating while in office

: 7
August 2004 • Source: The Gallup Organization (Princeton, N.J.)

Percentage points by which [GeorgeWBush|his] [GeorgeHWBush|father’s] rating fell between the end of the [GulfWar|Gulf War] and [August|August] [1990s|1992]

: 60
August 2004 • Source: The Gallup Organization (Princeton, N.J.)

Percentage points by which the [GeorgeWBush|President’s] approval rating has fallen since [September|September] 2001

: 41
August 2004 • Source: The Gallup Organization (Princeton, N.J.)

Chance that a member of [Texas|Texas’s] Army National Guard [Iraq|was]

: 1 in 31
August 2004 • Source: Texas Army National Guard (Austin)

Chance that a member of [NewYork|New York’s] Army National Guard was in [Iraq|Iraq] in [June|June]

: 1 in 4
August 2004 • Source: New York Army National Guard (N.Y.C.)

Year in which worldwide [Oil|oil] discoveries did

: 1964
August 2004 • Source: Oil Depletion Analysis Centre (London)

Percentage of [Britain|Britons] who cannot name the city that provides the setting for the musical [Chicago|Chicago]

: 65
August 2004 • Source: Endemol UK (London)

Average number of inches by which [Chicago|Chicago] sinks each year as the land it stands on adjusts from the last [Weather|ice age]

: 0.04
August 2004 • Source: Seth Stein, Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.)

Average number of inches by which Churchill, [Canada|Canada], rises each year for the same reason

: 0.4
August 2004 • Source: Seth Stein, Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.)

Average number of feet by which each boat ramp into [Arizona|Arizona’s] Lake Powell has been extended since 2002

: 600
August 2004 • Source: Glen Canyon National Recreation Area (Page, Ariz.)

Ratio of the number of [Insect|cicada] [Eggs|eggs] per square mile of southern [NewJersey|New Jersey] to the number of [Stars|stars] in the [Space|Milky Way]

: 4:5
August 2004 • Source: Jeffrey Lockwood, University of Wyoming (Laramie)/American Museum of Natural History (N.Y.C.)

Credit a [Spain|Barcelona] nightclub offers with the purchase of its “VIP VeriChip” implant, in [EuropeanUnion|euros]

: 100
August 2004 • Source: Baja Beach Club (Barcelona, Spain)

Number of implants the nightclub has [Business|sold] this year

: 12
August 2004 • Source: Baja Beach Club (Barcelona, Spain)

State grant awarded a [Missouri|Missouri] [Policing|police] department’s Youth Outreach Unit two years ago to battle Goth culture

: $273,000
August 2004 • Source: Youth Outreach Unit (Blue Springs, Mo.)

Amount the Unit returned to the state in [April|April] after no Goth-influenced youth could be found to aid

: $132,000
August 2004 • Source: Youth Outreach Unit (Blue Springs, Mo.)

Amount spent in the interim to set up the program

: $141,000
August 2004 • Source: Youth Outreach Unit (Blue Springs, Mo.)

Rank of Labour among British political parties that won the most votes in local elections in June

: 3
August 2004 • Source: BBC News (London)

Chance that an [Africa|African] national leader who left office between [1960s|1960] and 2003 did so because he lost an [Democracy|election]

: 1 in 10
August 2004 • Source: Risk, Rule, and Reason in Africa, by Arthur Goldsmith, Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.)/The Economist (London)

Minimum number of [DevelopingNations|developing countries] whose [Teenager|adolescent] [Child|birth] rate is lower than that of Phillips County, [Arkansas|Arkansas]

: 94
August 2004 • Source: Save the Children (Westport, Conn.)

Price a [Chile|Chilean] cemetery charges for an alarm built into [Death|coffins] to ensure against mistaken live burial

: $462
August 2004 • Source: Camino a Canaan (Santiago, Chile)

Number of years a judge ordered a [Men|man] convicted of [Cocaine|cocaine] possession last [Spring|spring] to keep a [Death|coffin] in his home

: 6.5
August 2004 • Source: Rockdale County Court (Conyers, Ga.)

Percentage change since then in the number of people serving a life sentence in a U.S. [Prison|prison]

: +83
August 2004 • Source: The Sentencing Project (Washington)

Percentage change since [1990s|1992] in the annual number of people [Murder|murdered] in the United States, per 100,000

: ???40
August 2004 • Source: FBI (Washington)

Number of these that have paid fines in connection with [Crime|criminal] cases

: 17
August 2004 • Source: Center for American Progress (Washington)

Number of the 73 firms participating in the [Medicare|Medicare] discount drug program that have been investigated since 2000

: 20
August 2004 • Source: Center for American Progress (Washington)

Minimum amount that [WalMart|Wal-Mart] has received in [Business|subsidies] from state and local governments since [1980s|1980]

: $625,000,000
August 2004 • Source: Good Jobs First (Washington)

Amount they paid

: $87,635,766
August 2004 • Source: Project on Government Oversight (Washington)/Harper's research
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