8/91Amount pledged by the Tobacco Institute last year to a campaign to discourage smoking by minors: $10,000,000
Estimated profit U.S, tobacco companies earned last year from sales of tobacco products to minors: $250,000,000
8/91Federal funds the National Cancer Institute will spend this year interviewing Latin American tribal healers: $100,000
8/91Year Brazil’s Supreme Court first ruled that it is illegal for a man to kill his adulterous wife to defend his honor: 1991
8/91Number of his first 77 decisions in which Supreme Court justice David Souter voted with Chief justice Rehnquist: 68
8/91Weeks after President Nixon referred to Rehnquist as “Renschler” and a “clown” that he appointed him to the Court: 13
8/91Number of times Nixon stopped to autograph food-ration cards during his trip to the Soviet Union last March: 1
8/91Number of times the Soviet Union has voted with the United States in the UN General Assembly since 1989: 22
8/91Average number of Israeli apartments damaged in each Scud attack before Patriot missiles were deployed: 219
8/91Depth of the tank treadmarks left on Pennsylvania Avenue after the Gulf war victory parade in June, in inches: 1/2
8/91Percentage of Panamanians who say that the U.S. invasion of their country in 1989 “wounded the national soul”: 71
8/91Estimated amount Japanese companies donated to American charities last year: $300,000,000
8/91Total PAC funds that went to the 331 candidates challenging incumbents for House seats in 1990: $6,898,631
Total PAC funds that went to the 79 incumbents who ran for re-election unopposed: $13,277,348
8/91Chances that the CEO of a savings and loan received a raise last year: 3 in 5
8/91Rank of pharmacists, clergymen, and doctors, among the professionals Americans say are the most honest: 1,2,3
8/91Percentage of Americans who believe they have healed physical ailments “using the power of mind”: 25
8/91Acres of land purchased for Maharishi Veda Land, a new-age theme park planned for Orlando, Florida: 450
8/91Chances that a worker anywhere in the world is employed by the travel and tourism industry: 1 in 15
8/91Total number of tourists who visited Italy last year: 27,000,000
Total number who visited Disney theme parks in the United States: 41,000,000
8/91Amount of the toxic-waste fine that the EPA levied against Disneyland in 1990: $550,000
8/91Percentage of the electricity consumed in the United States that is used for air-conditioning: 13
8/91Rank of nuclear power, among energy sources that Americans believe the country should rely on more in the future: 1
8/91Percentage of Americans who say that a nuclear power plant in their own community would be “unacceptable”: 60
8/91Estimated radiation dose absorbed by President Bush during his thyroid treatment, in rads: 4
8/91Average radiation dose absorbed last year by a person living 100 miles from the Chernobyl reactor, in rads: 0.4
8/91Pounds of opium stockpiled by the U.S. Defense Department to treat radiation sickness: 32,000
8/91Ratio of the average amount of pesticide used on U.S. lawns to the amount used on U.S. cropland, per acre: 5:1
8/91Amount David Eilers, a 15-year-old Atlanta resident, earned last year from his lawn-mowing service: $49,000
8/91Estimated number of blades of grass in one acre of lawn: 564,537,600
8/91Estimated number of grains of sand in one acre of beach: 2,000,000,000,000,000
8/91Number of cigarette butts collected on U.S. beaches during the 1990 National Beach Cleanup: 531,828
8/91Gallons of suntan lotion sold each summer at Empire Haven Nudist Park and Resort in Moravia, New York: 9