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Years since Afghanistan had a functioning legislature: 8

Number of bombs which have been dropped on Afghanistan by President Bush's Administration: 8,000

Number of bombs which would have been dropped on Afghanistan by a President Gore Administration: N/A

Landmines planted in Afghanistan as of 1997: 10 million

Percentage of Afghans under age 15: 42.2

Percentage of Afghan children who die before age five: 26

Percentage of adult Afghans who are literate: 31

Proportion of Afghan population which fled the country during the wars of the 1990s: 1 in 3

Afghan refugees still in Pakistan and Iran in early 2000: 3.4 million

Percentage of Afghan children over age eight that experienced the death of a parent between 1992 and 1996: 29

Percentage that saw many people killed at one time by rocket or artillery attacks: 50

Percentage who believed they would die during the conflict: 90

Number of children who have been killed during the past 20 years of war in Afghanistan, before this year: 400,000

Number of children who have died of malnutrition and illness during this same period: 4 million

Number of Afghan children under the age of five who die each year due to easily treatable illness: 268,000

Percentage of Kabul's teachers, civil servants and medical doctors, respectively, which were women according to a 1997 report: 70, 50, 40

Percentage of a woman's body that suffered severe burns that could not be treated because the Taliban refused to let a male doctor remove her clothing: 80

Number of delegations of Islamic scholars from Cairo who traveled to Afghanistan to argue, without success, that Islamic law did not support the Taliban's decision to destroy the historic cliffside Buddhas of Bamiyam: 1

Number of horses in caravan which supplies the Northern Alliance front: 300

Combined proven oil reserves, in barrels, of Afghanistan neighbors Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan: 15 billion

Proven natural gas deposits for these four countries, in cubic meters: 9 trillion

Total worth of oil and gas reserves in the Central Asian republics, at last year's prices, in U.S. dollars: 3 trillion

Afghanistan's proven and probable natural gas reserves, in cubic feet: 5 trillion

Afghanistan's proven and probable oil and condensate reserves, as estimated by the Soviet Union, in barrels: 95 million

Percentage of Earth's potential oil reserves believed to be under the Caspian Sea: 16

Percentage of Central Asia Gas. a consortium that planned an ambitious gas pipeline across Afghanistan, that was controlled by California-based UNOCAL: 46.5

Years before UNOCAL pulled out of the pipeline project after failed negotiations with the Taliban: 7

Distance, in kilometers, pipeline was to stretch from the Caspian Sea through Afghanistan to Pakistan: 1,271

Estimated cost of pipeline, including proposed additional extension to India, in U.S. dollars: 2.5 billion

Number of major newspaper articles in the 60 days preceding Oct. 24 in which the terms "Afghanistan," "oil," "pipeline" and "Unocal" appeared, according to the Lexis-Nexis database: 19

Number of these articles which were published in the United States: 9

Number of these U.S.-published articles which include details of UNOCAL and U.S. efforts to negotiate with the Taliban: 3

Out of 30 countries surveyed by Gallup International, number where a majority of people agree that, in response to the September 11 terrorist attacks, military attacks are preferable to pursuing justice nonviolently through international law, however long it takes: 2*