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		$14.8 million: Amount the government of Kazakhstan will reportedly spend on pesticides next year. This year's $4.7 million allocation failed to prevent a massive locust invasion.	23/99

		17,239: Number of books about Jesus Christ in the collection of the United States Library of Congress.

		9,801: Number of booksin the collection about Shakespeare, the second most popular literary subject.

		3.5 billion: Number of people worldwide who rely on plant-based medicine for their primary health care.

		19.7%: Proportion of the Swedish population aged 16 to 84 that smokes. Sweden is the first and only country in the world to meet the WHO's target for reducing smoking.


		188: Number of member states of the United Nation, as of last Tuesday (October /99)when the tiny Pacific island nations of Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga joined.

		232: Number of casualties claimed by land mines in Kosovo since the withdrawal of Serbian troops last June.

		2.1%: Unemployment rate in Centro, Portugal, the European Union region with the lowest unemployment. Ceuto y Melilla, Spain, ranks highest at 24.8%.

		33.4 million: The number of people estimated to be infected with HIV. 22.5 million live in sub-Saharan Africa.

100 billion: personal fortune of the richest man in the world -- Bill Gates
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