Seventy-one

Legendary American singer Lou Reed has died at the age of seventy-one.

Sixteen plus sixty-one is seventy-seven. Seventeen plus seventy-one is eighty-eight.

Last year, Seed Savers Exchange donated two hundred seventy-one heirloom seed varieties to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, far above Norway. The vault opened in February of two thousand eight. Since then, the exchange has stored one thousand six hundred sixty open-pollinated heirloom seed varieties in the storage center.