We’ve taken the “most viewed” stories from The Age and The SMH websites from the last week and crunched them into this tag cloud.
This week was all about Sydney, with a bit of the Andrew Johns drug scandal thrown in and to make up for all the inexplicable talk of church, lots of s-x:
And for our number boffins:
120: the minimum estimate of the number of American servicemen who have committed suicide while on active duty in Iraq
$300 million: cost to taxpayers of hosting APEC
4000: total number of APEC delegates
1000: number of APEC delegates from the US
3500: number of NSW police on duty over APEC
22,000: Number of shifts they will work through the summit
160 million: cost of Sydney’s “ring of steel”
1: number of Chaser members dressed as Osama Bin Laden who have penetrated the APEC exclusion zone
30: number of vehicles in President Bush’s APEC motorcade
5: number of chefs travelling with the US president
250: number of US Secret Service agents in Sydney
15: number of US sniffer dog teams in Sydney
3: number of 747s in the president’s intercontinental air-cade
142: number of comments by noon on Janet Albrechtsen’s ”Howard must go” column on line.
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