4/91Number of U.S. combat deaths in Vietnam before a Washington antiwar rally drew more than 75,000 people: 14,000
Number of U.S. combat deaths in the Persian Gulf before the January 26 rally that drew more than 75,000 people: 0
4/91Percentage of TV evening-news coverage of the Vietnam War between 1965 and 1970 that depicted casualties in battle: 3
4/91Number of walls the size of the Vietnam Memorial it would take to list all the Vietnamese who died in the war: 69
4/91Number of courses on the Vietnam War required for graduation from West Point: 0
4/91Percentage increase, since 1988, in the number of American college students who have their own credit card: 37
4/91Estimated percentage of all deposits in America’s nine largest banks that are held in foreign branches: 51
4/91Amount the federal government spent last year on the savings and loan bailout, per hour: $7,420,000
4/91Percentage increase, during 1990, in the number of times the word “recession” appeared in the New York Times: 200
4/91Percentage of U.S. taxpayers who pay more in Social Security tax than in federal income tax: 38
4/91Change, since 1980, in the amount checked off on tax returns for the Presidential Campaign Fund: -$8,500,000
4/91Chances that an American who strongly favors the U.S. attack on Iraq is in the market for a house: 1 in 5
Chances that an American who strongly opposes the attack is in the market for a house: 1 in 12
4/91Total amount Kuwait invested in the United States last year: $4,000,000,000
Number of these invasions the United States sent troops to help repel: 3
4/91Number of cats the U.S. Army has shot in the head since 1983 in order to research battlefield injuries: 648
4/91Number of beagles used in radiation research that the Department of Energy will bury in a toxic-waste dump in 1991: 850
4/91Estimated percentage of the oil spilled by the Exxon Valdez that has been removed from the environment: 8
4/91Number of bees that invaded a Bayport, New York, house while the owners were on vacation last spring: 20,000
4/91Average number of miles an item of food consumed in the United States travels before it is eaten: 1,200
4/91Ratio of the size of the female spider monkey’s clitoris to the size of the male monkey’s penis: 2:1
4/91Average number of months an American teenage girl is sexually active before using birth control: 12
4/91Change, between the ages of 9 and 14, in the percentage of American girls who say “I am happy the way I am”: -31
4/91Rank of white, Hispanic, and black girls, among those who lose the most self-esteem during puberty: 1,2,3
4/91Amount the British Boy Scouts have earned since 1988 by selling corporate advertising space on merit badges: $500,000
4/91Stud fees the Justice Department plans to earn in 1991 from a show horse seized from an alleged drug dealer: $2,500,000
4/91Winning volume in the Japanese Annual Loud Voice Contest, held in Tokyo last December, in decibels: 115.8