Numbers: May 1, 2000

43 Governments in Italy since 1959, the latest of which dissolved last week

1 Governments in Cuba since 1959

$43,000,000 Cost of a new computerized system to track the 500,000 foreign college students in the U.S.

9,767 Visas issued from 1991 to 1996 to students from Middle Eastern countries on the State Department's list of governments that support terrorism

1 Lapsed student-visa holder convicted in the World Trade Center bombing

94% U.S. households that have telephone service

22% Households on Navajo reservations with phone service

1 in 147 Incarceration rate among U.S. residents last year, up from 1 in 218 in...

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