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Published: Sep 06, 2008 12:30 AM
Modified: Sep 06, 2008 05:37 AM

Notable numbers

Statistics from the past week that deserve a doubletake

 

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$798,000 - The amount of federal money -- per month -- Cherry Hospital stands to lose if the state mental health facility in Goldsboro gets decertified because of safety issues.

1,107 - The number of North Carolina babies who died before their first birthdays in 2007.

18,000 - The number of North Carolina teenagers who got pregnant in 2005.

31 - The average number of years a person can expect to live in Swaziland, where 40 percent of the adults are infected with HIV.

$109.71 - The price of a barrel of light sweet crude on Tuesday. It reached a high of $147 in April.

$312,790 - What Wake schools superintendent Del Burns will receive after a 4 percent pay raise.

18,000 - The number of people still missing in the wake of the May 12 earthquake in China.

116 - The percentage increase in illicit drug use for Americans between the ages of 55 and 59 over the past five years.

4 - The latest prison sentence, in years, for former lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who has already spent two years in prison in a separate corruption case.

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