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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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