CONTRACEPTION
$51 million
Price of a program introduced by Brazil's President, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, to subsidize birth-control pills. Under the plan, a month's supply of pills will cost about 20¢
150,000
Estimated number of people who attended Pope Benedict XVI's May 13 Mass in Aparecida, north of São Paulo, during which he condemned abortion and contraception. Brazil, the world's largest Catholic country, recorded some 125 million followers in 2000
PIRACY
$39.6 billion
Estimated loss from software piracy suffered by the tech industry worldwide in 2006
$262
Estimated value of pirated software loaded onto a typical computer in...
