CRIME
8.56
Number of murders per every 100,000 people in Nevada, which has been ranked, for the fourth year in a row, as the state with the highest murder rate in the country. The national average is 5.6
3.5%
Rise in Nevada's population between July 2005 and July 2006, the nation's second fastest-growing state over that period
AIR TRAVEL
$16 billion
Estimated savings from cheaper ticket prices that airline passengers would see as a result of an "open skies" aviation deal aimed at liberalizing transatlantic travel
3.5 million
Estimated tons of additional CO2 emissions the "open skies" deal would create annually....
