To know: The number of Pakistanis made homeless by the floods has climbed to six million.
"There is a migration of refugees to urban Bertoua, but it is difficult to know the number of refugees present in the town.
By Samantha Henig August 23, 2010 To know: The number of Pakistanis made homeless by the floods has climbed to six million.
The decision by a three-judge panel said it was impossible to know the number of people killed or imprisoned because the crimes were covered up.
But hepatitis C is more easily transmitted than H.I.V., and Dr. Jagger says monitoring is so spotty that it is impossible to know the number of health care worker-to-patient transmissions.
"It's very important for us to know the number of Iraqis that are vulnerable, that are known to us, and that number is around 32,000," said Imran Riza, the United Nations refugee agency representative in Jordan.
Once the diagnosis is established, it is obviously important to know the number of cases, whether the cases were scattered over the course of a year or occurred within a short period, and what the geographic distribution is.
(and really, his inability to know the number of houses his wife has been able to secure for him is like George HW Bush's inability to know the price of milk, a gaffe that should haunt him for weeks) – is this really the legacy they want to promote?
"I used to know the number of schools in the United States, junior highs, private schools, junior colleges, even average class sizes," he said, recalling simpler times, when his chief responsibility was promoting the safe use of firearms and the joys of shooting sports, which is to say 16 months ago.
The lesson is simple: If you want to know the number of socks in a drawer, nothing beats actually counting the socks, and if you want to know who should win a skating competition, nothing beats counting all the judges, preferably a large number of judges.
But Palestinian residents and Israeli officials say that Hamas is tending its own wounded in separate medical centers, not in public hospitals, and that it is difficult to know the number of dead Hamas fighters, many of whom were not wearing uniforms.
