Numbers: Sep. 19, 2005

$82,000 Cost of a 10-bus convoy Washington sent to New Orleans last week to pick up Hurricane Katrina evacuees

1 Number of evacuees the belated caravan took to Washington after more than 200 had been flown in free

$1 billion Total spent by wealthy nations each year on agricultural aid to developing countries, a U.N. report states

$1 billion Total spent by those wealthy nations each day subsidizing their own farmers

15 Pages in an appellate ruling that upheld Florida's revocation of the driver's license of a Muslim who refused to be photographed without her veil

13 States that offer a...

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