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.
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.
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.
Estimated number of soccer balls the U.S. government sent Iraq this summer to help "bring life back to normal."
Amount Thailand has promised to pay survivors of anyone who dies of SARS contracted there.
Percentage of Indian college students who cite Gandhi and Hitler, respectively, as models for leaders of India.
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.
Average salary of a state legislator in 2002.
$130,000.00
Average amount, according to The Center for Public Integrity, spent lobbying one.
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.
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.