8/92Percentage change, since 1970, in beer production in China, per capita: +372

United States Feed Grain Council (Washington)/U.S. Census Bureau (Hyattsville, Md.)

4/85Number of beer cans manufactured since they were introduced in 1935: 610,000,000,000

Can Manufacturers Institute (Washington, D.C.)

11/01Percentage change since 1996 in the number of U.S. apprehensions of people trying to cross the Mexican border: +9

U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service

    Percentage change since then in the number of U.S. border guards assigned there: +60

U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service

    Percentage change since 1999 in the number of people who died on U.S. soil while crossing the border illegally: +56

U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service

5/93Percentage of Americans who would accept a new 50¢ tax on a six-pack of beer to help finance health-care reform: 87

NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll (Washington)

5/03Percentage of Mexicans who believe that the U.S. Southwest rightfully belongs to Mexico: 58

Zogby International (Utica, N.Y.)