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55%-43%
Margin by which Democratic front runner John Kerry leads President George W. Bush in the latest Gallup poll
53%-43%
Margin by which Bill Clinton trailed the first President Bush at a comparable point in the 1992 primary race
80%
Proportion of patients at Baghdad's Central Teaching Hospital for Children who leave with infections they didn't have when they arrived
$551 million
Amount spent on public health in Iraq last year, expected to jump to $1.7 billion this year
44%
Proportion of athletes at this year's Summer Olympics who will be women, up from 38% at the 2000 Games
3
Women on this year's 10-member team from Afghanistan
100 million-1 billion
Estimated number of birds killed by flying into glass windows in the U.S. each year
121 million
Number of birds killed annually by U.S. hunters
Sources: Gallup; New York Times; Associated Press; Muhlenberg College
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