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March/April 2000

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Ratio of never-married women to never-married men,

Santa Clara County:

13:20

Ratio nationwide:

21:25

Cost of a martini at Palo Alto's Blue Chalk Cafe:

$5.50

Percentage of Silicon Valley's most eligible bachelors who say their worst habit is workaholism:

20


Parts in the robot Dexter's hand:

203

Bones in the human hand:

19

Cost of Dexter:

$5,500

Cost to produce Bicentennial Man:

$100 million

Laws of robotics defined by Isaac Asimov:

3


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Herbert Hoover's assets when he graduated from Stanford in 1895:

$40

Value of Hoover's mining company stock in 1898:

$77,000

Love poems attributed to Hoover:

1

State of the Union addresses attributed to Hoover:

4

Length of journey from Kalgoorlie, Australia, to the Sons of Gwalia mine, by camel, in days:

3.75

Sources: 1. San Jose Mercury News; Blue Chalk Cafe; Women.com; 2. Dextrous Manipulation Laboratory; Inner Learning Online; Internet Movie Database; Go Network; 3. Herbert Hoover and Stanford University; Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Archives.

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