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Privately owned Brazilian virgin timberland     $.005
New Mexico (U.S.A.) agricultural land            $.05
Privately owned Costa Rican rainforest           $.20
Kerala (India) agricultural land                 $.78
Indonesian coral reefs                          $1.00
New Jersey (U.S.A.) agricultural land           $1.98
Prime Australia vineyard                        $9.07
U.S. interstate highway                       $154.00
Standard Tokyo three-bed room apartment     $5,066.67
Manhattan real estate, New York, U.S.A.    $10,821.60
Single-depth lakeside plot, Hollywood
 Forever Cemetery, Hollywood,
  California, U.S.A.                       $62,857.14
SOURCES: Cited values in, or Worldwatch estimates based
 on data in, the following (in order): Land and Farm, Inc.
(www.landandfarm.com); U.S. Department of Aqriculture
 Economic Research Service (New Mexico and New jersey land values):
Portfolio Costa Rica Cwww.portfoliocr.com); National
 Council of Applied Economic Research (New Delhi, India);
 Kilikanoon Wines/news; United Nations Environment
 Programme; U.S. Federal Highway Administration;
 Daily Times (Pakistan); Miller Samuel, Inc.; Hollywood
 Forever Cemetery.