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September 30, 2003

1

Rank of Measles among diseases that kill the most children worldwide each year and can be prevented by vaccine.

$558,750

Cost of vaccinating the 745,000 children who died from the disease in 2001.

$1,000,000

Amount of money NIKE is paying 14-year-old soccer prodigy, Freddy Adu, to wear its shoes and clothing for one year.

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2000

The year in which Dick Cheney said that his policy as CEO of Halliburton was that "we wouldn't do anything in Iraq."

$73,000,000.00

Price of the oil-field supplies sold to Iraq by two Halliburton subsidiaries during Cheney's tenure.

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36

Maximum number of miles that Ford's most fuel-efficient 2003 car can drive on a gallon of gas.

35

Maximum number its 1912 Model T could.

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60,000

Estimated number of soccer balls the U.S. government sent Iraq this summer to help "bring life back to normal."

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$100,000

Amount Thailand has promised to pay survivors of anyone who dies of SARS contracted there.

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23 and 17

Percentage of Indian college students who cite Gandhi and Hitler, respectively, as models for leaders of India.

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September 3, 2003

14

Number of countries to which the United States sent military troops between 1900 and 1993 for the purpose of establishing democracy.

4

Number that were democracies ten years after the withdrawal of U.S. forces.

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$30,000

Average salary of a state legislator in 2002.

$130,000.00

Average amount, according to The Center for Public Integrity, spent lobbying one.

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September 2, 2003

90

Number of candy-bar wrappers that Cadbury's new anti-obesity campaign offers to exchange for a basketball.

100

Number of hours of playing basketball required for an 85-pound child to burn off the calories from that many candy bars.

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7.2

Inches of rain that fell in Indianapolis on September 1, 2003, breaking a 108-year-old record for daily rainfall.

6.8

The old record, set on September 4th, 1895.

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