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1 dollar: medial sum daily stake in Myanmar.

1 dollar: medium daily hazard for goverment institute teachers in Myanmar.

$80: monthly allowance of Ko Htun Htun at a boarding academy in Mandalay Separation for working 24 hours a day, seven days a week as a preceptor and dorm supervisor. (Htun Htun was enforced to give up being a tour conduct last fall when tourism collapsed in the watch of the uprising.)

$60: Amount Htun Htun sends back each month to his gray mare and three children a hundred miles gone in Taunggyi. (There is no courtyard for them at the boarding gymnasium. Htun Htun sleeps in the dorm with the students.)

10 cents: bus pass from the outskirts of the incorporated town to downtown Yangon before last sink's price hikes.

20 cents: bus travel after the increase.

$2.50: value for a gallon of gas last Awe-inspiring.

Over $5.00: cost in September. (Victuals and other costs went up more or less proportionately.)

50 cents: require to be paid to enter Mahabandoola Garden, a "national" park in downtown Yangon. (When we visited it, about 20 race were relaxing in this three- or four-acre critically manicured oasis.)

$50 a thousand thousand: estimated utility of wedding gifts admitted by General Than Shwe's daughter a few years ago.

$3 to $5: Diurnal wage paid to hundreds of thugs hired by the conduct to beat monks and other demonstrators last September and October. (Each man hired also accepted a free breakfast and a cudgel.)

Between 11 and several hundred: reckon of non-violent demonstrators killed by police, martial or paid gangs.

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