Total [MilitaryIndustrialComplex|U.S. military spending] the [GeorgeWBush|Bush] Administration projects it will have spent by the end of 2008
: $3,200,000,000,000Last year in which a quarterly rise in [MilitaryIndustrialComplex|U.S. military spending] was greater than the one last [Spring|spring]
: 1951Percentage of the White House’s proposed [Afghanistan|Afghanistan] spending in 2004 devoted to reconstruction
: 3Square feet of roads under construction in the [Palestine|occupied territories] in the [1990s|1990s] per settler
: 185Square feet of [Israel|Israeli] [Transportation|roads] under construction in the [1990s|1990s] per Israeli
: 57Average percentage since then
: 79Average percentage of the [Judaism|Jewish] vote won by the [DemocraticParty|Democratic] [Democracy|presidential] candidate in the [1980s|1980s]
: 59Number of [DemocraticParty|Democrats] among the 10 largest political donors since [1990s|1991]
: 9[Democracy|Campaign contributions] that one voting-[Technology|technology] [CEO|CEO] raised to become a [GeorgeWBush|Bush] “Pioneer‚” this year
: $100,000Percentage of [Democracy|votes] cast in U.S. elections last year that were counted by the largest [Technology|voting]-technology firm
: 52Number of [Florida|Florida] [Education|high school] [Student|students] who take physical-education courses [Internet|online]
: 1,204Percentage change since 2000 in the number of U.S. [Medicine|surgeries] performed each year to treat morbid [Diet|obesity]
: +178Grams by which the amount of [Diet|fat] in [McDonalds|McDonald’s] fattiest salad exceeds that in its fattiest burger
: 3First year in which the [Language|definition] of [Holiday|“turkey‚”] in Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary went beyond fowl
: 1949Ratio of the institute’s budget to the estimated price of [Entertainment|Jennifer Lopez’s] engagement ring
: 3:4Percentage by which the [Pentagon|Defense Department] proposed cutting its budget this year by closing its Peacekeeping Institute
: 0.001Number of [Banking|banks] and suppliers that [GulfWar|Gulf War] [Veterans|veterans] are suing for aiding [Iraq|Iraq]’s purchases of [Weapons|weapons] and chemicals
: 44Total U.S. [MilitaryIndustrialComplex|military spending] between [1940s|1941] and 1948
: $3,100,000,000,000Minimum number of facts and rules with which a [Technology|computer] must be programmed to have common sense
: 200,000,000Number of [Animal|tortoises] that died of [GlobalWarming|heat exhaustion] at the Glasgow Zoo in one day last [August|August]
: 7Age in years of a [California|California] bristlecone pine that is the [Age|oldest] [Trees|tree] on earth
: 4,733Age in years of a [Nevada|Nevada] bristlecone when the U.S. Forest Service let a graduate [Student|student] cut it down in [1960s|1964]
: 4,950Rank of the [WorldWildlifeFund|World Wildlife Fund] among organizations most trusted by [Europe|Europeans] and Americans, respectively
: 2, 8Rank of [CocaCola|Coca-Cola]
: 8, 2Number of sequels to The Gods Must Be Crazy in which its star N!xau appeared before his death last [July|July]
: 3Amount that a [Louisiana|Louisiana] [BaptistFaith|preacher] paid [Caucasian|white] people to [Race|integrate] his [Sunday|Sunday] [Religion|services] last [August|August], per person
: $5Price of admission to the World’s Fair of [Money|Money] held last [August|August] in [Baltimore|Baltimore]
: $0Attendance at last year’s largest annual conference on “establishing the truth behind‚” [JohnFKennedy|JFK’s] assassination
: 165Minimum number of such conferences held worldwide each year
: 3Number of people per sauna in [Finland|Finland]
: 2.5Number of people per [Technology|mobile-phone] line in the United States
: 2Last year in which visits to U.S. [NationalPark|national parks] increased
: 1999Years of study it took the [EPA|EPA] to conclude in [August|August] that it is not responsible for regulating CO2 emissions
: 3[Days|Days] after announcing this conclusion last [July|July] that the Geological [Polling|Survey] issued a memo discounting it
: 7Years it took the U.S. Geological [Polling|Survey] to conclude that [Environment|Arctic] refuge [Oil|drilling] would substantially reduce [Animal|caribou]
: 12Amount [California|California] has received per capita in energy-company settlements since then
: $2.60Amount that [Energy|energy] companies’ market [Mendacity|manipulation] cost [California|California] consumers between 2000 and 2001 per capita
: $260Amount by which federal subsidies to U.S. [Agriculture|cotton farmers] last crop-year exceeded 2001’s U.S. cotton sales
: $300,000,000Cotton-subsidy reparations proposed by four [Africa|African] countries at the WTO’s [Mexico|Cancún] meeting this [Fall|fall]
: $250,000,000