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Your support makes all the difference.Amount offered to Holocaust survivors by the Hungarian government as compensation for each parent killed in the Holocaust:
$140
Amount offered by the Hungarian government for each sibling killed in the Holocaust:
$70
Amount allocated in President Clinton's proposed military budget to the completion of a national missile-defence shield, similar to "Star Wars":
$6.6bn
Acres of genetically modified crops sown in the world in 1997, five times the acreage sown in 1996:
30 million
Global average number of boys born, for every 100 girls:
105
Average number of boys born in China for every 100 girls:
113.5
Ranking of "Ashley" in the list of most popular girls' names in New York City since 1992:
1
Number of reported cases of forged bank notes in Poland last year:
13,808
Chances that a musical recording, on CD or cassette, will be a pirated copy:
1 in 3
Number of parking tickets issued in London each year:
3.5 million
Average speed of traffic in Central London:
10mph
Number of dust particles in the 16 kg of air breathed daily by the average British office worker:
5 million
Square yards of skin on the average human - home to as many bacteria as there are people in the US:
2
Amount charged an hour by Mary Ward in Boston, a professional "nitpicker" who teaches parents to remove lice from their children's hair:
$50
Number of leeches the Welsh company Biopharm supplies to hospitals around the world each year:
20,000
Chances that a Spaniard still has time to take a siesta - ideally of 20 minutes - after lunch:
1 in 5
Percentage of time a mallard duck sleeps with one eye open and one half of its brain awake, a type of rest known as unihemispheric slow-wave sleep, when predators are nearby:
85
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