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100
Percentage change since 1985 in the number of U.S. neswspapers with reporters covering Congress
What is -72%
100
Number of U.S. Children who attend public boarding schools
What is 4,040
100
Minimum number of Spanish collection agencies whose employees wear costumes in order to shame debors into paying
What is 15
100
Minimum value of governmental bailouts of the global financial industry since 2007, per capita worldwide
What is $1,250
100
Number of poppyseed bagels that could be mad with Afghanistan's annual poppy harvest
What is 357,000,000,000
200
Percentage change since 2007 in the average cost of a U.S. wedding
What is -24%
200
Price paid last winter for the foreclosed boyhood home of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke
What is $83,000
200
Amount that Japan is offering unemployed foreigners of Japanese descent to leave the country
What is $3,100
200
Number of the nine members of the Chinese Communist Party's governing body who were trained as engineers
What is 8
200
Percentage change since last year in the amount Americans spent on canning and freezing supplies
What is +29%
300
Estimated percentage change since last year in the number of Chinese factories producing fireworks for the U.S. market
What is -26%
300
Percentage of 6-to-9 year old American girls who wear lipstick or lip gloss
What is 46%
300
Estimated total amount that world financial institutions will write off by 2010, according to the IMF
What is $4,100,000,000,000
300
Months after being shot at a city council meeting last year that a Missouri reporter was laid off
What is 14
300
Percentage of Somalis last winter who thought pirates were "protecting Somalia"
What is 70
400
Percentage change since 2003 in the number of newspaper reporters covering state legislatures
What is -32%
400
Chance that a top-ten U.S. bestselling book since January has been a book about vampires by Stephenie Meyer
What is 2 in 5
400
Estimated value of the unmined uranium under a 100-acre area in southern Virginia
$7,740,000,000
400
Minimum number of "czars" Obama has appointed
What is 17
400
Minimum number of Americans whose health care is paid for by taxes
What is 83,000,000
500
Percentage of rich Americans who say they haven't yet "lost faith in the integrity of financial service institutions"
What is 36%
500
Number of front-page Boston Globe stories since 2007 that have ben written by journalism students
What is 12
500
Amount that Utah plans to raise by levying an $8 "conviction fee" against each person found guilty there
What is $2,800,000
500
Percentage of Americans in April who identified themselves as Republican
What is 27
500
Number of readings and other events listed so far this year on CowboyPoetry.com
What is 286