7/90Number of trees George Bush has pledged to plant in the United States in the next five years: 5,000,000,000

The White House

    Amount he has proposed to cut from existing Forest Service tree-planting programs next year: $32,000,000

U.S. Forest Service

7/90Amount of trash left in New York City’s Central Park by people attending Earth Day festivities, in tons: 100

Dept. of Parks (N.Y.C.)

7/90Amount of trash retrieved from Mount Everest since April, in tons: 2

Mt. Everest International Peace Climb (Port Townsend, Wash.)

7/90Amount the West Berlin city government has paid East Germany to dump trash there since 1975: $700,000,000

Flora Lewis, New York Times (Paris)

7/90Value of the South African iron and steel the U.S. has imported since Congress imposed sanctions in 1986: $350,000,000

Ken Bunting, Fort Worth Star-Telegram

7/90Amount the U.S. government has paid Romania since 1980 for Soviet-made weapons for intelligence purposes: $40,000,000

Benjamin Weiser, Washington Post

    Estimated amount of the payment that went directly into the Ceausescu family’s private bank accounts: $8,000,000

Benjamin Weiser, Washington Post

7/90Number of East German spies still operating in West Germany, according to West Germany: 5,000

Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Köln, West Germany)

7/90Number of West Germans expected to file claims for property seized by East Germany since 1949: 500,000

Central Association of West German House, Apartment, and Real Estate Owners (Düsseldorf, West Germany)

7/90Number of foreclosures initiated by the Farmers Home Administration during the first three months of 1989: 103

U.S. Dept. of Agriculture

    Number of foreclosures initiated during the first three months of 1990: 559

U.S. Dept. of Agriculture

7/90Acres of solar panels it would take to fulfill all human energy needs: 83,000,000

Michael Oppenheimer, Environmental Defense Fund (N.Y.C.)

    Percentage of the earth’s landmass this represents: 0.2

Michael Oppenheimer, Environmental Defense Fund (N.Y.C.)

7/90Chances that a piece of solar-energy equipment manufactured in the United States last year was exported: 1 in 2

Solar Energy Industries Association (Arlington, Va.)

7/90Number of seconds added to 1989 to accommodate a decrease in the earth’s rotational speed: 1

U.S. Naval Observatory

7/90Number of animal species into which a human gene has been introduced: 16

Foundation on Economic Trends (Washington)

7/90Sales of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles merchandise since the film was released in April: $500,000,000

Surge Licensing (Jericho, N.Y.)

    Sales of tickets to the film: $110,000,000

New Line Cinema (N.Y.C.)

7/90Percentage of American pet owners who keep a photograph of their pet in their wallet: 40

Center for Interaction of Animals and Society, University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)

7/90Percentage of parents who say they want the option of having their child’s school photograph retouched: 30

Photo Marketing Association (Jackson, Mich.)

7/90Portion of all references to Dan Quayle in the Washington Post last year that were in the Style section: 1/2

Quayle Quarterly (Bridgeport, Conn.) /Harper’s research

7/90Number of votes received by the Beer Drinkers Union in the East German elections held last March: 2,534

German Information Center (N.Y.C.)

    Number of votes received by the Unification Now party: 2,396

German Information Center (N.Y.C.)

7/90Number of the 15 republics in the Soviet Union in which there are independence movements: 15

Institute for East-West Security Studies (N.Y.C.)

7/90Portion of all national constitutions that were written after 1965: 3/4

Albert P. Blaustein, Rutgers University School of Law (Camden, N.J.)

7/90Percentage increase, since 1988, in the number of publications seized or banned worldwide: 121

Committee to Protect Journalists (N.Y.C.)

    Percentage increase, since 1988, in the number of journalists killed worldwide: 104

Committee to Protect Journalists (N.Y.C.)

7/90Average number of Latin American countries the United States has invaded and occupied each decade since 1900: 5

Instituto Histórico Centroamericano (Managua, Nicaragua)

7/90Ratio of Japan’s investment in Latin America to its investment in Asia: 1:1

Japan External Trade Organization (N.Y.C.)

7/90Total number of hours each school day the children of the president of Mexico spend learning Japanese: 3

Liceo Mexicano Capones (Mexico City)/Mexican Embassy (Washington)

7/90Number of uninterrupted hours a Boston girl played Nintendo before having an epileptic seizure: 3

Edward J. Hart, Franciscan Children’s Hospital (Boston)

7/90Percentage of American children under the age of 6 who say that the first U.S. flag was sewn by Betsy Ross: 15

Playskool, Inc., (Pawtucket, R.I.)

    Percentage who say it was sewn by Barbara Bush: 29

Playskool, Inc., (Pawtucket, R.I.)

7/90Number of times George Bush telephoned Gloria Estefan during her stay in the hospital in March: 3

Magikcity Media (Miami)

7/90Percentage of American women who said in 1970 that men were “basically kind, gentle, and thoughtful”: 67

Virginia Slims-Roper Organization poll (N.Y.C.)

    Percentage who say this today: 51

Virginia Slims-Roper Organization poll (N.Y.C.)

7/90Price of a full back-waxing for men at La Carezza in New York City: $30

La Carezza (N.Y.C.)

7/90Number of Census Bureau employees who have been bitten by people they were trying to count: 1

Census Bureau (Suitland, Md.)

7/90Percentage of Iowans who say it’s not the heat, it’s the humidity: 87

Des Moines Register Iowa poll