2/86Number of Americans who have someone else’s heart: 300

Cleveland Clinic Foundation

2/86Number of Americans who were conceived in a test tube: 400

Mt. Sinai Medical Center (Cleveland)

2/86Percentage of U.S. households composed of a father who works, a mother who doesn’t, and two children: 4

U.S. Census Bureau

2/86Percentage of acknowledged male homosexuals who are fathers: 25

“Gay and Bisexual Fathers,” by Dr. Barbara Keating and Dr. Kelley M.L. Brigman (Mankato State University, Minn.)

2/86Percentage of the babies born to unmarried white women under 25 that are given up for adoption: 8

National Committee for Adoption (Washington, D.C.)

    Percentage of the babies born to unmarried black women under 25 that are: 1

National Committee for Adoption (Washington, D.C.)

2/86Percentage of Americans who say that birth control information should be available on television: 78

Louis Harris and Associates (New York City)

2/86Coverage of South Africa on ABC’s evening news in the month before Pretoria’s media ban (in minutes): 10.8

Harper’s research

    In the month after the ban: 3.2

Harper’s research

2/86Coverage of South Africa in the New York Times in the month before the ban (in column inches): 727.5

Harper’s research

    In the month after the ban: 402

Harper’s research

2/86Percentage increase in Angolan oil exports to the United States since 1982: 100

U.S. Department of Energy

2/86Number of the three best-selling automobiles in 1985 that were pickup trucks: 2

J. D. Power and Associates (Westlake Village, Calif.)

2/86Portion of fourth-quarter GNP growth in 1985 accounted for by sales of IBM’s Sierra mainframe computer: 2/5

Morgan Stanley & Company (New York City)

2/86Portion of Fortune 1000 companies that employed undercover security agents in 1974: 1/10

Security Letter magazine (New York City)

    In 1984: 1/2

Security Letter magazine (New York City)

2/86Percentage increase, since 1974, in the number of self-employed men: 12

U.S. Department of Labor

    In the number of self-employed women: 74

U.S. Department of Labor

2/86Percentage of new members of AF.L.-C.I.O. unions who are women: 55

A.F.L.-C.I.O. (Washington, D.C.)

2/86Percentage of Americans buying stocks for the first time in 1985 who are women: 57

New York Stock Exchange

2/86Percentage of the Philippines’ 300 government-owned corporations that are headed by Imelda Marcos: 10

New York Times

2/86Percentage of Americans who can’t name an Asian country “near the Pacific Ocean”: 42

Newsweek Advertising Resource Center (New York City)

2/86Students in the United States who are studying Russian: 25,000

W. Averell Harriman Institute for Advanced Study of the Soviet Union (Columbia University)

    Students in the Soviet Union who are studying English: 4,000,000

W. Averell Harriman Institute for Advanced Study of the Soviet Union (Columbia University)

2/86Punches Rocky lands in Rocky IV: 115

Harper’s research

    Punches he takes: 218

Harper’s research

2/86Rambos in the Washington, D.C., telephone book: 3

District of Columbia telephone directory, 1985

2/86Percentage of all hostage deaths in airplane hijackings since 1968 that occurred during rescue attempts: 85

Rand Corporation (Santa Monica, Calif.)/the U.S. State Department

2/86Percentage of defectors to the United States who eventually return to their homeland: 50

U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

2/86Number of cruise ships that will make stops at Cuban ports this year: 17

Cuban mission (New York City)

2/86Number of the Queen Elizabeth II’s last 9 U.S. health inspections that it passed: 2

Cunard Lines (New York City)

2/86Percentage increase in the number of vegetarians in England since 1983: 30

Gallup Poll Ltd. (London)

2/86Write-in votes, in the 1985 Boise, Idaho, mayoral election, cast for Mr. Potato Head: 4

Ada County Elections Office (Boise, Idaho)

2/86Percentage of girls 13 to 18 years old who say they have symptoms of anorexia nervosa: 9

Gallup Organization (Princeton, N.J.)

2/86Weight of the average female fashion model in 1970 (in pounds): 112

Ford Models Inc. (New York City)

    Today: 122

Ford Models Inc. (New York City)

2/86Monthly earnings of China’s top female fashion model: $70

The Face magazine (London)

2/86Price of a founding membership in the Beijing International Golf Club: $15,000

Beijing International Golf Club

2/86Number of submarines shoppers can ride at the West Edmonton Mall in Alberta, Canada: 4

Triple Five Corporation (Alberta, Canada)

    Number of submarines in the Canadian navy: 3

Department of National Defence (Ottawa, Canada)