Week in words, week in numbers
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We’ve taken the “most viewed” stories from The Age and The SMH websites from the last week and crunched them into this tag cloud. This week was all about Sydney, with a bit of the Andrew Johns drug scandal thrown in and to make up for all the inexplicable talk of church, lots of s-x:
And for our number boffins: 120: the minimum estimate of the number of American servicemen who have committed suicide while on active duty in Iraq $300 million: cost to taxpayers of hosting APEC 4000: total number of APEC delegates 1000: number of APEC delegates from the US 3500: number of NSW police on duty over APEC 22,000: Number of shifts they will work through the summit 160 million: cost of Sydney’s “ring of steel” 1: number of Chaser members dressed as Osama Bin Laden who have penetrated the APEC exclusion zone 30: number of vehicles in President Bush’s APEC motorcade 5: number of chefs travelling with the US president 250: number of US Secret Service agents in Sydney 15: number of US sniffer dog teams in Sydney 3: number of 747s in the president’s intercontinental air-cade 142: number of comments by noon on Janet Albrechtsen’s ”Howard must go” column on line. |
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