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Harper’s Index
Total amount the Bush campaign paid Enron and Halliburton for use of corporate jets during the 2000 recount: $15,4001
Maximum amount each of Enron's 4,500 laid-off employees would receive as part of a proposed settlement: $13,5002
Average amount the company paid each of its 140 top executives last year: $5,300,0003
Months that Vice President Dick Cheney has refused to release documents related to current U.S. energy policy: 164
Months since his release from prison that nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee has been looking for work: 245
Years that the National Security Agency's new head of research held the same position at Disney: 26
Number of Hollywood films released in the last two years for which Senator Orrin Hatch has co-written songs: 27
Number of teenagers enrolled last summer in Secure Corps, a "homeland security training" camp in Pennsylvania: 928
Grant given a Maryland professor last October to create an online archive of dot-com-era business plans: $300,5009
Number of Japanese McDonald's that began offering broadband Internet access in May: 910
Size in acres of a billboard that a Chinese town is constructing next to its ancient giant Buddha: 1011
Hours that the Empire State Building was lit "Snapple Yellow" in August: 812
Percentage of Americans who say vacationing leaves them tired: 5413
Number of traffic tickets issued in July by British Columbia police officers posing as squeegee men: 9014
Number of bookies arrested in India in March on charges they took bets on Hindu-Muslim riots: 10115
Percentage of seats in Pakistan's parliamentary elections this month that will be reserved for women: 1916
Number of Afghan refugees whose 2002 return the U.N. budgeted for in January: 800,00017
Number who have returned home since then: 1,500,00018
Percentage of Israeli settlers who say they would respect a government decision for them to leave the settlements: 6819
Percentage who say they remain in the settlements for the quality of life: 7520
Percentage of Americans who said in August that they had a clear idea of why the U.S. would consider attacking Iraq: 5621
Amount of Iraq's oil revenue since 1996 spent on anything but humanitarian programs, Kuwaiti reparations, or U.N. costs: 022
Minimum annual U.S. spending on searching for missing soldiers: $100,000,00023
Number of U.S. soldiers missing in action since 1945: 88,13524
Chance that one of the 264 barrios of Medellin, Colombia, is controlled by right-wing paramilitaries: 1 in 425
Estimated chance last year: 1 in 1026
Number of Argentines who have applied to be on a new job-search game show since April: 6,50027
Percentage change in U.S. spending on border enforcement since 1995: +20028
Percentage change since then in the estimated number of illegal immigrants living in the United States: +5729
Number of corrections professionals who attended a mock riot at a former West Virginia prison in May: 1,23530
Minimum number of U.S. universities where Halloween celebrations last year included at least one student in blackface: 431
Rank of Richard Nixon masks among the top U.S. costumer's best-selling political masks over the last five years: 132
Number of the last six U.S. presidents who bested their opponents in the company's election-year Halloween mask sales: 633
Percentage of Americans who blame Bill Clinton's "moral failings" for the current business scandals: 5134
Percentage who blame President Bush's "close ties to big corporations": 4635
Percentage of CEOs who blame CEOs for the scandals: 6936
Value of the Dow Jones industrial average in 1996 when Alan Greenspan warned of investors' "irrational exuberance": 6,43737
Average number of U.S. print-media references to "our new reality" each week since September 11, 2001: 1.438
Average number of words of MTV's The Osbournes censored per minute: 2.839
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