Number of new [Labor|government jobs] created since 2000
: 721,000Chance that a civilian federal worker is [Jobs|employed] by the [HomelandSecurity|Department of Homeland Security]
: 1 in 12Rank of 2002 among fiscal years since [1980s|1980] in which the fewest [Immigration|refugees] entered the United States
: 1Number of [Immigration|refugees] the United States accepted in the last year, expressed as a percentage of the legal maximum
: 40Percentage change since last year in the annual U.S. cap on such visas
: ???66Percentage change last year in the number of applications for the most common U.S. [Labor|professional-worker] visas
: ???40Chances that a participant in [California|California’s] [September|September] 24 gubernatorial debate grew up speaking [Language|English] at home
: 2 in 5Date on which [ArnoldSchwarzenegger|Arnold Schwarzenegger] met with [Enron|Enron] [CEO|CEO] Kenneth Lay to discuss [California|California’s] energy policy
: 5/17/01Chance that a mention of [BillClinton|Clinton] was made by Wesley Clark
: 0Number of times they mentioned [BillClinton|Bill Clinton]
: 36used the [Language|word] “jobs‚” in their first four debates after [Labor|Labor Day]
: 111Average percentage of Americans asked to participate in [Polling|Gallup polls] who do
: 40Number of votes he won
: 0Number of citizen reports on file at the [NorthAmerica|North American] Reporting Center for [Animal|Amphibian Malformations]
: 2,240Average number of gallons of blood spilled to produce one [Fashion|mink coat]
: 1.65Percentage change since last year in the number of U.S. [Wealth|millionaires]
: ???3Percentage change since 2001 in the number of U.S. families in [Poverty|poverty]
: +6Amount by which the number of U.S. [Death|deaths] in 2000 from lack of [Insurance|medical insurance] exceeded those from [AIDS|AIDS]
: 967Factor by which [Medicine|antibiotic] treatment before the age of 6 months increases the chance of developing asthma by age 7
: 2.6Average price paid per metric ton last [September|September] at the first U.S. auction of [Pollution|carbon-emission] allowances
: 98?Factor by which the average price paid on [Europe|Europe]’s open market exceeds this
: 11Percentage change in the price of a share of [Education|Edison Schools] stock since [February|February] 2001
: ???95Number of [NewYorkCity|New York City] eighth-graders deemed “proficient‚” on last year’s end-of-[Summer|summer]-school reading exam
: 0Percentage of those who took the test who were promoted to the ninth grade
: 78Number of candidates who ran for a school-board seat in the South [Mississippi|Mississippi] County School District last [Fall|fall]
: 1Percentage of [Iraq|Baghdad’s] citizens asked to participate in a [Polling|Gallup poll] last [September|September] who agreed to do so
: 98Percentage of [Iraq|Iraq’s] [Urban|urban] areas with access to potable water a year ago and today, respectively
: 92, 60Average number of [Iraq|Iraqi] civilians [Death|killed] by [Gun|gunfire] in [Baghdad|Baghdad] each day last [August|August]
: 17Average number [Death|killed]
: 1.6Average number of [Army|U.S. soldiers] wounded in [Iraq|Iraq] each day since the invasion began
: 9.2Percentage change since [1990s|1999] in the number of desertions from the [Army|U.S. Army]
: +36Percentage change between 2001 and 2002 in [Toy|G.I. Joe] sales
: +46Estimated number of [Mendacity|artificial] [Christmas|Christmas] [Trees|trees] displayed in [Housing|U.S. homes] each year for every real one
: 2.6Spending Winston Churchill approved in [1940s|1943] to research [Folly|making an aircraft carrier] out of [Ice|ice] and wood pulp
: $136,000iles] were assembled in [Cuba|Cuba] under Khrushchev’s order
: 10[Days|Days] after a [1960s|1961] meeting with Khrushchev that [JohnFKennedy|President Kennedy] leaked claims of U.S. [Nuclear|nuclear]-[Missile|missile] superiority
: 29Year in which a [Terrorism|terrorist] threat against “[Holiday|S. Claus],‚” the “Prime Minister‚” of the [NorthPole|North Pole], was declassified by the [CIA|CIA]
: 1997Percentage who say this today
: 2Percentage of U.S. [Islam|Muslims] who said in 2000 that they would vote for [GeorgeWBush|George Bush]
: 40