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Your support makes all the difference.Sexually active British women who have never had an orgasm:
1,421,000
Major studios' cost of delivering sample movie videos to 4,500 Oscar jury members:
dollars 4,000,000
Supertanker loads of acid-rain-making sulphur dioxide emitted by Drax, North Yorks, electric power station in 1992:
2.65
Spoons of sugar in a large cola soft-drink:
21
Percentage of childhood cancers
which are cured:
50
Level at which human population growth is expected to level off:
14,000,000,000
Average number of children under the age of three treated for dog bites every year:
5,000
British children per available child psychotherapist:
45,000
New shopping malls built per year
in the US:
1,000
Reported promotional budget of Disney's movie Nightmare Before Christmas:
dollars 14,000,000
Women professors of chemistry in the UK:
1
Houses in Birmingham without indoor
lavatory or bathroom:
5,000
Sales of Diane Von Furstenberg's fashion collection in its first two hours displayed on the USA's QVC TV shopping channel:
dollars 1,200,000
Sources: RM/The Full Treatment (programme supplement) Thames TV (10 per cent); Variety 22 November 1993; RM/Friends of the Earth/Dept of Environment statement 8 April 1993 (supertanker 100K t); The Full Treatment (programme supplement) Thames TV; ibid; Prof Sergei Kapitsa, Cambridge University Global Security Programme Information Pack, Dec 1993; The Full Treatment (programme supplement) Thames TV; RM/ Whitaker's Almanack 1994/The Full Treatment (programme supplement) Thames TV 1992 (263 available, mostly in London); Costing The Earth, BBC Radio 4, 18 December 1993; Variety 15 November 1993; Nancy Lane, BBC Radio 4 Start The Week, 20 December 1993; BBC Radio 4 Today, 20 December 1993; MeTV, The Late Show, 15 December 1993.
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