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Your support makes all the difference.Wild animals slaughtered to celebrate Roman
Emperor Trajan's conquest of Dacia
(Romania): 11,000
Animals killed on Spanish roads every year:
10,000,000
Monthly living expenses of actress Kim Basinger:
dollars 22,000
After bankruptcy plan: dollars 10,000
Capitalisation of US corporation after merger of
Bell Atlantic and Tele-Communications Inc:
dollars 60,000,000,000
Pounds of opium sold by British business to
Chinese addicts in 1837-38: 5,250,000
Number of polluting jet travel trips available
each year in the United States for every US man,
woman and child: 2
Juggernaut-loads of fuel jettisoned before landing
by British Airways jetliners in 1992-93: 65
Sci-fi novels published in Britain in 1989: 130
In 1992: 84
Daily illegal immigrant arrests on the US border
near El Paso, Texas: 1,200
After revamped policing: 75
Percentage of 16- to 18-year-olds in full-time
post-compulsory education in Britain: 40
In Spain: 61
In France: 82
In Germany: 89
Years Last Exit to Brooklyn, Tropic of Cancer,
Tropic of Capricorn, Naked Lunch and The Ginger
Man were between them banned in Britain: 83
Sources: Derek Wall, 'Green History' Routledge; Earth Island Journal; Time Magazine; Paris Match; Natural History; RM/Aerospace Facts & Figures (500m trips); BA (1,500 tonnes); Locus Magazine (US); USA Today; Dept for Education Statistical Bulletin; Flamingo Modern Classics/Penguin/RM.
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