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News by Numbers
Arizona Summer Wildcat
Wednesday June 11, 2003
- 200 to 300 border crossers use Sky Harbor Airport every day, U.S. Border Patrol officials said.
- $84 million is the estimated cost Northwest Medical Center officials expect to spend on a new hospital in Oro Valley.
- 3,240 civilians were killed in Iraq during the month of Operation Enduring Freedom, according to the Associated Press.
- 18 deaths in Japan are being blamed on Internet suicide pacts the deceased made.
- $1 million could be given to "Survivor" winner, Jenna Morasca, for posing for the August issue of Playboy, depending on how well the issue sells, E! Online said. She won another $1 million for the CBS's reality adventure show.
- 60 people in Lima were taken hostage by captors who are asking for $1 million for their release.
- 40,000 copies of Hillary Clinton's memoirs were sold in 24 hours, breaking Barnes & Noble's record for sale's of a non-fiction book in one day, the bookseller said.
- $100 million investment fund aimed at providing jobs and rebuilding communities in Iraq was created by a U.S. Civil Administrator.
- $800 for the two rovers that are expected to explore up to 132 feet each Martian day, which is 24 hours and 39 minutes long.
- 84 months in prison for ImClone Systems founder Samuel Waksal for his role in an insider trading scandal that brought the indictment of Martha Stewart.
- 940 administrative jobs eliminated by Safeway Inc. to help recover from a sales slump. No pink slips will be handed out in Tucson, according to an Associated Press article.
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