4,000

Number of children worldwide who die each day from diarrheal disease due to contaminated water or poor sanitation.

UNICEF

$11.3 billion

Estimated cost to supply drinking water and sanitation to underserved populations by 2015, the deadline set under the Millennium Development Goals.

World Health Organization and UNICEF

$20 billion

Funding requested over five years to clean up coastal areas under the Great Lakes Regional Collaboration Implementation Act.

U.S. House of Representatives

$5.6 billion

Amount appropriated for Project BioShield, a ten-year program to support "necessary expenses for securing medical countermeasures against biological terror attacks."

Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act

92

Percentage of the world's opium supply grown in Afghanistan.

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

"That's like - it's very vague. What does that mean, 'outrages upon human dignity'? That's a statement that is wide open to interpretation."

George W. Bush, referring to Common Article 3 of the Geneva Convention, which prohibits torturing prisoners-of-war

"It ... would minimize the risk of contracting the disease."

Former South African Deputy President and National AIDS Council leader, Jacob Zuma, explaining why he took a shower after having condom-less sex with an HIV-positive woman who unsuccessfully accused him of rape

"In 30 years of doing this kind of work I have never seen anything like this. This kind of industrial waste, dumped in this urban setting, in the middle of the city, never."

Jean Loup Queru, a French engineer, on the dumping of toxic waste from a tanker off of Abidjan, Ivory Coast

"I do want to urge all members of the Yale community to call us right away if they see large groups of young people on bikes."

Chief James A. Perrotti of the Yale Police Department

"Democracy was won!"

A coup supporter under General Sonthi Boonyaratglin of Thailand