Numbers: Mar. 13, 2006

$400 billion Estimated amount by which Americans will underpay the IRS this year

$360 billion Projected 2006 U.S. budget deficit

72% Proportion of U.S. troops in Iraq who say a total pullout should occur in the next year

85% Proportion who say the main mission in Iraq is to retaliate for Saddam's role in 9/11

25 million Number of free condoms distributed by prostitutes and health workers in Brazil during Carnival, as part of a government anti-AIDS effort

$48 million Amount of an AIDS-prevention grant that the U.S. is refusing to renew because Brazil will not state formally that prostitution...

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