10/05Amount that Oakland residents can now be fined if their dog has not been implanted with an ID microchip: $100

City of Oakland Animal Services

7/95Maximum price of a three-year license to sell hot dogs outside New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art: $900,600

Department of Parks and Recreation (N.Y.C.)

11/89Number of pages of his newspaper a Filipino editor says military personnel forced him to eat at gunpoint in May: 2

Luis Reyes, Panahon (Masbate, Philippines)

10/84Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of 11: $5,902

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12/92Percentage of American vegetarians who say they eat red meat once a week: 10

Yankelovich Clancy Shulman (Westport, Connecticut) and Vegetarian Times (Oak Park, Illinois)