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Friday, February 15, 2008



This Week By The Numbers

BY THE NEWS STAFF


News Reporter


43,000

The number of people left homeless by flooding as a result of weeks of heavy storms in northeastern Bolivia. President Evo Morales declared the floods a national disaster on Tuesday.



$400 billion

The amount U.S. and foreign companies are being asked to pay to South African blacks in a series of lawsuits against the companies that reportedly engaged in business with the former apartheid regime in South Africa.



1

The number of nights Las Vegas showmen Sigfried Fischbacher and Roy Horn will return next February to perform their signature show more than five years after a tiger attack ended their production.



$2 million

The amount of money Republican lawmakers threatened to take back from the federal funding to the city of Berkeley, California and from funds for the University of California- Berkeley, after the town protested the arrival of Marine recruiters, saying they “are not welcome in our city.”



 



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