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Average cost of one F-15 supersonic fighter aircraft: dollars 125,000,000
Extra acres of public land sought by the US military for 50-ft elevation supersonic training and bombing flights: 1,500,000
Percentage of Kenya's rhinoceros population killed during the 1970s: 90
Aseptic juice drink boxes thrown away each day in the United States: 8,000,000
Scottish electronics employees in 1979: 42,500
In 1991: 45,500
Skin cancer (melanoma ICD 172) deaths in Wales in 1988: 47
In 1991: 75
Tonnes of acid rain-causing orimulsion fuel imported for electricity generation in 1989: 47,000
In 1991: 465,000
Bicycles imported from China in 1990: 100,983
In 1991: 141,874
Americans in hospital emergency wards last year after accidents involving supermarket trolleys: 33,000
Sources: Philippe Nicolet/Paris Match; RM/BBC Radio News; E The Environmental Magazine; J M Kioko, Kenyan Wildlife Service; Aseptic Packaging Council Scottish Office; ibid; Welsh Office; ibid; DTI; ibid; DTI; ibid; In Context/US Consumer Product Safety Commission
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