8/92Days it would take to exhaust Ross Perot’s fortune if it were used to pay the interest on the federal deficit: 5.7

U.S. Federal Election Commission/Saul Friedman, New York Newsday/U.S. Department of the Treasury

8/92Campaign contributions George Bush has received from people he later appointed to ambassadorships: $900,000

Common Cause (Washington)

8/92Number of the 32 sitting federal appellate judges appointed by President Bush who are black: 0

Judge Stephen Reinhardt (Los Angeles)

8/92Rank of Hispanics, among those arrested during the Los Angeles riots: 1

County Sheriff’s Department (Los Angeles)

8/92Ratio of the number of homebuyers in Orange County, California, last year named Smith to those named Nguyen: 1:2

Dataquick Information Systems (La Jolla, Calif.)

8/92Chances that an American is of English ancestry: 1 in 8

U.S. Census Bureau (Boston)

8/92Chances that an American does not consider himself or herself a rock-music fan: 2 in 3

Gallup Organization (Princeton, N.J.)

8/92Number of countries that have issued at least one Elvis Presley postage stamp: 13

Michael Laurence, Linn’s Stamp News (Sidney, Ohio)

8/92Number of U.S. Postal Service employees murdered by their colleagues since 1983: 30

U.S. Postal Service

8/92Percentage change, since 1990, in the number of documented cases of journalists murdered, worldwide: +91

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

8/92Bonus the Chinese government pays selected scholars and scientists each month to discourage emigration: $20

China Daily (Beijing)

8/92Percentage change, since 1970, in beer production in China, per capita: +372

United States Feed Grain Council (Washington)/U.S. Census Bureau (Hyattsville, Md.)

8/92Number of different versions of Crystal Pepsi tested before the product was introduced in April: 3,000

PepsiCo. Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.)

8/92Percentage change, since 1979, in wine consumption in France: -42

Institut National de la Statistique et Etudes Economiques (Paris)

    Percentage change, since 1979, in frozen-food consumption in France: +463

Institut National de la Statistique et Etudes Economiques (Paris)

8/92Percentage of French women who do not view being asked to undress for a job interview as sexual harassment: 20

Le Point (Paris)

8/92Fine for appearing bare-chested or in a swimsuit on the streets of Venice: $24

Municipal Police (Venice)

8/92Number of subscribers to Surfer Magazine who live in Saudi Arabia: 2

Surfer Magazine (Dana Point, Calif.)

8/92Chances that a cigar costing more than $1.25 will be smoked by a millionaire: 1 in 3

Marvin Shanken, Cigar Aficionado (N.Y.C.)

8/92Ratio of the average number of political jokes in a Jay Leno Tonight Show monolog to those in a Carson monolog: 3:2

Center for Media and Public Affairs (Washington)

8/92Percentage change, since 1989, in the number of times the phrase “war on drugs” has appeared in news articles: -32

Lexiconomy (N.Y.C.)

8/92Percentage of cancer specialists who say they would prescribe marijuana for their patients if it were still legal to do so: 48

Richard Doblin and Mark Kleiman, Journal of Clinical Oncology (Boston)

8/92Portion of medical school obstetrics-gynecology programs that offer routine training in first-trimester abortions: 1/8

Richard Doblin and Mark Kleiman, Journal of Clinical Oncology (Boston)

    Portion that did in 1985: 1/4

Trent MacKay, University of California Medical School (Davis)

8/92Chances that a Republican woman running for Congress this fall is pro-choice: 1 in 3

National Women’s Political Caucus (Washington)

8/92Rank of Pat Paulsen, among candidates winning the most votes in North Dakota’s Republican primary in June: 2

Office of the Secretary of State (Bismarck, N.D.)

8/92Rank of Bill Clinton, among all Democratic presidential nominees since 1956, in percentage of primary votes won: 1

Congressional Quarterly (Washington)

8/92Percentage of Americans who say that “there is no chance” they would vote for Clinton in November: 48

Gallup Organization (Princeton, N.J.)

8/92Average percentage change in the GNP during each four-year Democratic administration since 1949: +20

Standard & Poor’s (N.Y.C.)

    Average percentage change in the GNP during each four-year Republican administration: -9

Standard & Poor’s (N.Y.C.)/U.S. Department of Commerce

8/92Percentage of Fortune 500 CEOs who say they will vote for Bush in November: 78

Fortune (N.Y.C.)

8/92Percentage of Americans who say that President Bush has “mainly just talked about protecting the environment”: 70

CBS News (N.Y.C.)

8/92Tons of trash generated by the Rio Earth Summit in June, per day: 7

Todd Lewan, Associated Press (Rio de Janeiro)

8/92Estimated percentage of Latin Americans who live below the poverty line: 44

United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (Santiago, Chile)

    Percentage in 1980: 41

United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (Santiago, Chile)

8/92Years it would take a Nike worker in Indonesia to earn Michael Jordan’s endorsement fee: 44,492

Sung Hwa Corp. (Tangerang, Indonesia)/Julie Strasser, Swoosh: The Unauthorized Story of Nike and the Men Who Played There (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, N.Y.C.)

8/92Estimated percentage of all hats sold in the United States each year that are baseball caps: 70

C. Leon Sherman, CLS and Associates (Denver)

8/92Number of the 3 items looted from the Frederick’s of Hollywood Museum in L.A. last April that have been returned: 2

Frederick’s of Hollywood (Hollywood, Calif.)

8/92Number of extra dancers a Houston topless bar plans to hire during the Republican Convention this month: 20

Rick’s Cabaret (Houston)