1/93Number of the four cats who have lived in the White House since 1933 that were owned by Republicans: 1

Presidential Pets, by Niall Kelly (Abbeville Press, N.Y.C.)/Harper’s research

12/01Minimum number of cats fitted with high-tech listening equipment in a 1967 CIA project: 1

Victor Marchetti (Vienna, Va.)

    Estimated number of minutes after the cat was released on its first test run that it was killed by a taxi: 10

Victor Marchetti (Vienna, Va.)

9/90Federal housing funds spent by New Jersey’s Passaic Housing Authority in 1988 and 1989 to feed stray cats: $14,865

Pat Gilbert, The Record (Hackensack, N.J.)

2/08Number of confirmed suicides in the U.S. Army in 2006: 102

Army G-1 Human Resources Policy Directorate (Washington)/ U.S. Army Medical Command (Fort Sam Houston, Tex.)

    Number of years since accurate record-keeping began in 1981 that the rate was as high: 0

Army G-1 Human Resources Policy Directorate (Washington)/ U.S. Army Medical Command (Fort Sam Houston, Tex.)

12/92Percentage change, since 1980, in the number of military personnel and dependents seeking psychiatric care: +74

Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (Aurora, Colorado)

    Percentage change, since 1987, in the number of suicides among active U.S. Army personnel: +19

U.S. Army