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$500 million

Estimated cost of repairing sections of the I-10 causeway crossing Lake Pontchartrain, which was damaged in hurricane Katrina

$453 million

Amount pledged by Congress for the construction of two bridges in Alaska, one of which has been dubbed "the bridge to nowhere." efforts to redirect those funds to the repair of I-10 Failed this week

$90 million

Amount of foreign aid promised for relief efforts in Pakistan

$312 million

Amount the United Nations estimates will be required for relief efforts in Pakistan

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Which is the scariest costume to wear this Halloween?

1) Dick Cheney

2) Harriet Miers

3) Judith Miller

4) A parrot with a British accent

Last week’s results

In covering the Bush White House to date, do you think the mainstream media have behaved like…

75% lap dogs

7% watchdogs

18% junkyard dogs

"Experience is often something you get when you were expecting something else."

Yearbook quote of 19-year-old Lisa O’Connell, the Bridgewater State student who was allegedly drunk when she plowed into a crowd last week on the way home from a party, killing 21-year-old Jacqueline Nilsson

15 months

The new Maximum sentence for illegal underage sex in Kansas, as long as the defendant is under 19 and less than four years older than his or her underage partner. Before Friday’s Kansas Supreme Court ruling, the "Romeo and Juliet" law applied only to heterosexual partners

17 years

The sentence handed down in 2000 by the state of Kansas to Matthew Limon, who as an 18-year-old had homosexual sex with a 14-year-old. Limon will be re-sentenced in accordance with the Supreme Court ruling.