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Percentage change since 1999 in the number of consumer complaints about harassment by U.S. debt-collection agencies: +564

Number of Americans whose past-due accounts the IRS will turn over to private debt collectors by 2008: 350,000

Salary of the White House’s new Director for Lessons Learned: $106,641

Percentage change since 2004 in the number of Army recruits admitted despite records of “serious criminal misconduct”: +54

Minimum amount of USDA farm subsidies since 2000 that have been paid out to people who do not farm: $1,300,000,000

Minimum value of “small business” contracts given out by the U.S. last year that went to Fortune 500 firms: $1,200,000,000

Estimated chance, according to new fossil research, that a Tyrannosaurus rex lived to full maturity: 1 in 50

Percentage of volunteers in a four-year psychedelic-mushroom study who said they experienced “strong or extreme fear”: 31

Percentage who described the experience as “among the five most meaningful” in their lives: 67

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