30 Minutes that L0pht, a group of eight Boston hackers, told the Senate it would take them to cripple the Internet
$10 million Funding the hackers subsequently received from venture capitalists to start their own online security-consulting firm
508 Number of Iranians who in 1999 pledged to sell their kidneys to fund the fatwa against Salman Rushdie
2 Years since the Iranian government announced it would not enforce the Rushdie fatwa
3 Alabama public schools named after slain civil rights leader and Alabama native Martin Luther King Jr.
4 Alabama public schools named after turn-of-the-century assimilationist and fellow Alabamian Booker T. Washington
10 Years since the Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly
2 million Children killed in armed conflict during that period
Sources: AP, BBC, American School Directory, UNICEF
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