7/86Number of the 3,010 terrorist attacks worldwide in 1985 that involved Americans: 99

Risks International (Alexandria, Va.)

7/86Rank of the Soviet Union, South Africa, and the United States in per capita prison population: 1,2,3

From the Yaroslavsky Station, by Elizabeth Pond (Universe Books, New York City)

7/86Amount the United States spent in 1985 on radio broadcasts to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union: $146,559,000

Voice of America/Radio Free Europe (Washington, D.C.)

    Estimated amount the Soviet Union spent trying to jam those broadcasts: $300,000,000

Radio Free Europe

7/86Percentage of TV shows broadcast in Nicaragua that are made in the United States: 30

Electronic Media (Chicago)

7/86Value of Central America’s exports in 1980: $7,515,000,000

Inter-American Development Bank (Washington, D.C.)

    In 1984: $4,915,000,000

Inter-American Development Bank (Washington, D.C.)

7/86Amount of money Japan invests overseas each month: $7,000,000,000

Japanese consulate (New York City)

7/86Percentage of all corporate-bond debt issued in 1978 that was rated “A” or better: 81

Salomon Brothers (New York City)

    Percentage issued in 1985 that was: 64

Salomon Brothers (New York City)

7/86Portion of Yale’s 1985 class that applied for jobs at First Boston: 1/3

First Boston Corporation (New York City)

7/86Percentage by which prices for Nazi memorabilia appreciate annually: 20

Selling Hitler, by Robert Harris (Pantheon)

7/86Percentage change in the buying power of the minimum wage since 1981: -26

Washington Analysis Corporation

7/86Percentage increase in cases of tuberculosis in New York City in 1985: 14

New York City Department of Health

7/86Chances that an American Indian will die before the age of 45: 1 in 3

U.S. Office of Technology Assessment

7/86Average weight of a Chinese man’s testicles (in grams): 19.01

One Medicine, by R. V. Short (Springer-Verlag, Berlin)

    Of a Dane’s: 42

One Medicine, by R. V. Short (Springer-Verlag, Berlin)

7/86Percentage of babies born to married American women in 1965 that were unwanted: 20.5

Population Reference Bureau (Washington, D.C.)

    Today: 6.8

Population Reference Bureau (Washington, D.C.)

7/86Abortions per 1,000 live births in New York City: 852

New York City Department of Health

7/86Ratio of male to female ulcer patients in the United States in 1966: 20 to 1

National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, Md.)

    Today: 2 to 1

National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, Md.)

7/86Chances that a woman earns more than her husband: 1 in 5

U.S. Census Bureau

7/86Number of jobs the average worker has held by age 40: 8

Runzheimer International (Rochester, Wisc.)

7/86Number of homes the average person lives in over a lifetime: 30

Mohammed Bailey and David F. Sly (Center for the Study of Population, Florida State University, Tallahassee)

7/86Chances that a man has spent a night in jail: 1 in 5

Roper Organization (New York City)

7/86Number of countries whose independence day is in July: 15

United Nations

7/86Members of the Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence: 907

Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence (New York City)

7/86Percentage of Americans who say that France is not a reliable ally: 54

Washington Post-ABC News poll (New York City)

7/86Rank of Ronald Reagan, among all foreign leaders, in popularity among the French: 1

BVA (Paris)

7/86Tourists who visited the Kennedy Library last year: 252,617

U.S. Office of Presidential Libraries

    Who visited the Johnson Library: 402,768

U.S. Office of Presidential Libraries

7/86Number of Pontiacs in Pontiac, Michigan: 3,723

R. L. Polk and Company (Ann Arbor, Mich.)

7/86Number of tombstones in Tombstone, Arizona: 792

Boot Hill Cemetery and Gift Shop (Tombstone, Ariz.)

7/86People on the waiting list to witness an execution in Florida: 40

Florida Department of Corrections (Tallahassee)

7/86Percentage of Iowans who say they did not try to see Halley’s Comet: 74

The Iowa Poll (Des Moines Register and Tribune Company)

7/86Percentage of people who say they refuse to take part in market-research surveys: 38

Marketing Research Association (Chicago)

7/86Number of patented life forms: 374

U.S. Patent Office

7/86Number of eunuchs in India: 50,000

India Today (New Delhi)

7/86Pairs of socks received as gifts by Vice President George Bush: 48

George Bush’s 1985 financial disclosure report