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Jet aircraft lost in 1980s low-flying exercises by the RAF: 76
Percentage of Los Angeles residents who commute alone in cars: 72.3
Rail trips per capita in Portugal each year: 22
In the UK: 13
Number of times articulated road-tankers loaded with 1991 UK North Sea crude would stretch from London to Honolulu and back: 2
Snow cannon in the Alps: 5,000
Percentage of families with one parent 1971: 8
In 1991: 19
Percentage of mothers with a child under five, working or seeking work: 27
Women among US Gulf War forces: 26,000
Tonnes of beef produced by the world's top 10 countries in 1950: 12,845,000
In 1990: 34,651,000
Proportion of UK dairy farms with at least one case of 'mad cow' disease: 2/5
Percentage of British household waste currently recycled: 5
Juggernaut-loads of ozone-layer-destroying CFCs produced per working hour in the EC in 1987: 8
Percentage of people saying they would definitely or probably give up the benefits of science to live in an unpolluted world: 42
Sources: BBC TV;US Census Bureau; RM/Eurostat; ibid; RM/BP; Alp Action; OPCS; ibid; ibid; USA Today; RM/FAO/Geographical; ibid; MAFF; Dept of the Environment; RM/Eurostat; Gallup/Info 93
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