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To: Bilow who wrote (115217)	9/19/2003 1:26:41 PM
From: Rascal	Respond to of 281500

Startling Statistics you provide. A Few More: Ratio of Iran's military budget to the amount spent by the Pentagon since last fall for "increased worldwide posture" : 1:1 Amount the Defense Department has lost track of, according to a 2000 report by its inspector general : $1,100,000,000,000 Ratio of this amount to the rest of the world's military budgets combined : 2:1 Approximate number of accounting systems in use at the Defense Department : 2,300 Percentage change since 2001 in the median annual compensation of CEOs of major U.S. defense contractors : +79 Average salary of a state legislator last year : $30,300 Average amount spent lobbying one : $130,000 Number of U.S. commercial sites besides Disneyland and Disney World that have been granted no-fly-zone protection : 0 Number of industry-funded trips that FCC officials have taken since 1995 : 2,514 Rank of Las Vegas among the top destinations of such trips : 1 Number of books by Henry Kissinger found in Iraqi deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz's mansion in April : 2 Number by New York Times reporter Judith Miller : 1 Number of countries to which the U.S. sent troops between 1900 and 1993 for the purpose of establishing democracy : 14 Number that were democracies ten years after the withdrawal of U.S. forces : 4 Ratio of Kosovo residents to Western peacekeepers there in 1999 : 40:1 Ratio of Afghanistan residents to Western peacekeepers there now : 5,000:1 Ratio of the estimated number of people killed worldwide by war last year to the number killed by traffic : 1:4 harpers.org Figures cited have been adjusted for inflation and are the latest available as of June 2003. "Harper’s Index" is a registered trademark. Rascal @WesWing.com