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[ November 2004 ]

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Percentage change from 2000 to 2003 in the number of [Immigration|immigration] [Justice|appeals] sent to the U.S. 9th Circuit Court

: +355
November 2004 • Source: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (San Francisco)

Price paid on [Business|eBay] last [November|November] for two bottles of [TurkeyBird|turkey][Sweets|-and-gravy][Soda|soda]

: $63
November 2004 • Source: eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.)

Distance in feet traveled by the winning [Pumpkin|pumpkin] at [Delaware|Delaware]’s [Sport|Punkin Chunkin] Competition last year

: 4,434.28
November 2004 • Source: Bruce Bradford (Howell, Mich.)

Length in feet of the barrel of “[Gun|The Second Amendment]‚” [Pumpkin|pumpkin] cannon from which it was shot

: 150
November 2004 • Source: Bruce Bradford (Howell, Mich.)

Maximum number of rounds a semi-automatic [Firearms|rifle] may hold to be considered legal in [NewJersey|New Jersey]

: 15
November 2004 • Source: Evan F. Nappen (Eatontown, N.J.)

Maximum number allowed by the recently lifted federal ban on [Firearms|assault rifles]

: 10
November 2004 • Source: Evan F. Nappen (Eatontown, N.J.)

Minimum number of [California|Californians] serving a [Justice|life sentence] for [Adultery|cheating] on a [Driving|driving] exam

: 1
November 2004 • Source: Citizens Against Violent Crime (Santa Ana, Calif.)

Percentage of judges nominated by [GeorgeWBush|George W. Bush] since 2000 who have been confirmed by the [Senate|Senate]

: 89
November 2004 • Source: Office of Senator Patrick Leahy (Washington)

Last year in which there was as low a federal judicial vacancy rate as in 2004

: 1984
November 2004 • Source: Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (Washington)

Percentage by which [JohnAshcroft|John Ashcroft] cut the number of judgeships on the federal Board of [Immigration|Immigration] Appeals in 2002

: 50
November 2004 • Source: U.S. Department of Justice Executive Office for Immigration Review (Falls Church, Va.)

Average number of [Seconds|seconds] by which orders placed at these franchises are processed more quickly than at others

: 30
November 2004 • Source: McDonald's Corporation (Chicago)

Estimated chance that a classified document is “over-classified,‚” according to a [Pentagon|Pentagon] official this year

: 1 in 2
November 2004 • Source: Carol A. Haave (Washington)

Years since U.S. law began defining [Abortion|aborted fetuses] with “pulsation of the umbilical cord‚” as legal persons

: 2.5
November 2004 • Source: Harper's Research

Rank of antidepressants and anti-ulcer [Drugs|drugs] among the best-selling [PrescriptionDrugs|prescription drugs] worldwide last year

: 3,2
November 2004 • Source: IMS Health (Plymouth Meeting, Pa.)

Rank of cholesterol-lowering [Drugs|drugs]

: 1
November 2004 • Source: IMS Health (Plymouth Meeting, Pa.)

Percentage change between 2002 and 2003 in the number of U.S. [SelfHelp|buttock-augmentation] surgeries

: +533
November 2004 • Source: The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (N.Y.C.)

[Obesity|Weight] in pounds of a “[Wealth|millionaire]‚” seeking “Cinderella‚” in a New York [Magazine|magazine] personal ad last [Summer|summer]

: 444
November 2004 • Source: New York magazine (N.Y.C.)

[Days|Days] after the [1960s|1964] [VietnamWar|Gulf of Tonkin Resolution] that [DickCheney|Dick Cheney] [Marriage|married], securing a draft deferment

: 22
November 2004 • Source: Office of Lynne Cheney (Washington)

Price charged on Amazon.com this year for Lynne [DickCheney|Cheney]’s out-of-print [Homosexuality|lesbian] historical novel, Sisters

: $1,000
November 2004 • Source: Amazon.com, Inc. (Seattle)

Number of U.S. [Media|newspaper] editorials and op-eds published this year that included the phrase “pot calling the kettle black‚”

: 16
November 2004 • Source: Harper's Research

Number of [Army|U.S. soldiers] returned from [Iraq|Iraq] in the last year who have been diagnosed with [MentalHandicap|mental-health problems]

: 5,375
November 2004 • Source: Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington)

Chance that a [DemocraticParty|Democratic] president has not

: 0
November 2004 • Source: Jimmy Carter Library & Museum (Atlanta)

Number of [NewYork|New York] [Democracy|voters] who are also registered in [Florida|Florida]

: 46,000
November 2004 • Source: New York Daily News (N.Y.C.)

Deadline for completion of the first federally mandated national list of registered [Democracy|voters]

: 2006
November 2004 • Source: Board of Elections (Albany, N.Y.)

Number of U.S. states in which voters can cast ballots in advance by [PostalService|mail] or in person without providing a reason

: 30
November 2004 • Source: helpingamericansvote.org (Washington)

Number of states with such a policy in [1990s|1996]

: 11
November 2004 • Source: helpingamericansvote.org (Washington)

Ratio of [Hours|hours] of live U.S.-convention [Television|coverage] per U.S. network this year to hours of live coverage on Al Jazeera

: 1:2
November 2004 • Source: Harper's Research

Number of [Death|dead bodies] pictured in the [NewYorkTimes|New York Times] during the first week of [September|September]

: 16.5
November 2004 • Source: Harper's Research

Number of countries [Death|they] represented

: 5
November 2004 • Source: Harper's Research

Chances that one of them [Death|died] in [Iraq|Iraq]

: 2 in 3
November 2004 • Source: Harper's Research

Chance that a [RepublicanParty|Republican] president has not won the [Democracy|popular vote]

: 1 in 6
November 2004 • Source: Jimmy Carter Library & Museum (Atlanta)

Ratio of [Suicide|suicides] worldwide in 2001 to [War|war] [Death|deaths]

: 7:2
November 2004 • Source: World Health Organization (Geneva, Switzerland)

Ratio of Americans [Death|killed] by [Disaster|lightning] since [January|January] 2002 to those killed by [Terrorism|terrorism]

: 3:2
November 2004 • Source: National Weather Service (Silver Spring, Md.)/U.S. Department of State Counterterrorism Office (Washington)

Factor by which the annual number of [Africa|Sahara] [Disaster|dust storms] has increased in the last 50 years

: 10
November 2004 • Source: Andrew Goudie (Oxford, England)

Minimum number of customers trampled to death in [September|September] at the opening of a [SaudiArabia|Saudi Arabian] [Business|Ikea]

: 2
November 2004 • Source: Ghasson A. Al-Sulaiman Co. Ltd. (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)

Percentage of [Britain|Britons] [SeniorCitizen|over the age of 50] who have [Medicine|hurt] themselves attempting to open [Business|product packaging]

: 71
November 2004 • Source: De Vere Media (Hampshire, England)

Estimated number of [Afghanistan|Afghans] who [Death|died] in last year’s [Nut|pistachio] [Agriculture|harvest]

: 50
November 2004 • Source: Afghan Non-Governmental Organization Security Office (Kabul, Afghanistan)

Number of [Food|restaurants] in Guizhou, [China|China], closed in [April|April] for adding [Drugs|opium] to their dishes

: 215
November 2004 • Source: Guizhou Provincial Bureau of Public Security (Guiyang, China)

Number of U.S. [Food|McDonald’s] franchises whose drive-through order taking has been [Business|outsourced] to another state

: 2
November 2004 • Source: McDonald's Corporation (Chicago)
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