Amount requested by President Bush for the ongoing war in Iraq: $87 billion
Approximate amount required from each U.S. citizen to pay for it: $299
Price of an iPod, the digital music player made by Apple Computer: $299
Approximate amount every millionaire in the U.S. would need to contribute to raise $87 billion: $41,400
Starting price, on Ebay, of a piece of the bullet-riddled door in front of which Amadou Diallo was standing when he was shot to death by New York police in 1999: $41,000
Personal debt of Thomas Jefferson at the end of his life in 1826: $80,000
The value of $80,000 today, adjusted for inflation: $1.5 million
Salary, per year, stipulated in Carolina Panthers football player Todd Sauerbrun’s new four-year contract: $1.5 million
Number of punts Sauerbrun made in a single season to set the team record: 104
Age of Grace Colcord Fogg, a resident of Seabrook, Massachusetts, at her death on September 7: 104
Approximate value of $104 million in 1899, the year Ms. Fogg was born: $2 trillion
The projected U.S. Budget deficit for 2013 if President Bush's Iraq request is honored: $2 trillion
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