7/93Estimated amount of damage caused by vandalism, arson, and bombings at abortion clinics each day last year: $6,500

National Abortion Federation (Washington)

7/93Number of doctors invited to apply for a staff-physician job at a Georgia women’s clinic since February: 3,000

Feminist Women’s Health Center (Atlanta)

    Number who have responded: 1

Feminist Women’s Health Center (Atlanta)

7/93Health-care spending by U.S. corporations last year, expressed as a percentage of total net corporate profits: 108

U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services

7/93Ratio of liver transplants performed per capita in Canada last year to those performed in the U.S.: 1:1

Statistics Canada (Ottawa)/National Kidney Foundation (N.Y.C.)

7/93Number of beds at Massachusetts General Hospital, per billing-department employee: 3.5

Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston)

7/93Number of presidentially appointed federal jobs that Bill Clinton had not filled after 100 days in office: 1,800

White House

7/93Chances that an American who graduated college since 1980 holds a job that does not require a college degree: 1 in 5

U.S. Dept. of Labor

7/93Chances that an Ivy League college student cannot name both of his or her U.S. senators: 1 in 2

Luntz Weber Research and Strategic Services (Washington)

7/93Portion of Vice President Gore’s 1992 income that came from book sales: 2/3

White House

7/93Percentage change in federal spending on natural resources and the environment in the President’s 1994 budget: -5

U.S. Office of Management and Budget

7/93Number of classified and restricted manuals used by the Department of Energy to specify what is to be classified: 850

U.S. Dept. of Energy

7/93Hourly wage the Resolution Trust Corporation paid contract workers last year to photocopy documents: $35

U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Regulation and Government Information

7/93Percentage of U.S. day-care workers who earn less than poverty-level wages: 57

Marcy Whitebook, Child Care Employee Project (Oakland, Calif.) and Carollee Howes, University of California (L.A.) and Deborah Phillips, University of Virginia (Charlottesville)

7/93Average decrease in the number of minutes women spend on housekeeping for every hour spent at a paying job: 26

Juliet B. Schor, Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.)

7/93Percentage change, since 1983, in the number of listings under “housekeeping” in the New York City yellow pages: +50

NYNEX Yellow Pages (N.Y.C.)

7/93Rank of the Dallas yellow pages among directories listing the largest number of tanning salons: 1

Jeannie Ralston, Allure (N.Y.C.)

7/93Ratio of the value of the marijuana crop destroyed in Kentucky last year to the value of the tobacco harvested: 5:3

Kentucky State Police (Frankfort)/Burley Tobacco Growers Association (Lexington, Ky.)

7/93Ratio of the number of drug offenders sent to state prisons in 1990 to the number sent in 1980: 12:1

U.S. Dept. of Justice

7/93Number of people arrested in Japan last year for the illegal sale or abuse of paint thinner: 21,203

Japan Information Center (N.Y.C.)

7/93Ratio of Japanese schools playing the national anthem on the first day of classes in 1992 to those that did in 1985: 2:1

Ministry of Education (Tokyo)

7/93Percentage change, since 1989, in the number of minutes of foreign news broadcast on U.S. network news programs: -38

“Tyndall Report” (N.Y.C.)

7/93Chances that an American adult agrees that “it seems possible” that the Holocaust never occurred: 1 in 5

American Jewish Committee (N.Y.C.)

7/93Percentage of the French who say that the beheading of King Louis XVI in 1793 was “unjust,” “inexcusable,” or “revolting”: 42

Paris Match (Paris)

7/93London bookmakers’ odds that the British monarchy will be abolished by the year 2000: 1 to 5

William Hill (London)

7/93Percentage of Russians who believe that “only capitalism can save our country”: 19

Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty Research Institute (Munich)

7/93Number of current and former Russian Army officers enrolled in Moscow’s East-West School of Business: 200

Gregory Gransden, Chronicle of Higher Education (Moscow)

7/93Chances that an American adult under the age of 30 has begun saving for retirement: 1 in 2

Shearson Lehman Brothers (N.Y.C.)

7/93Number of government-certified master gardeners in the United States: 50,000

Master Gardeners International Corporation (Alexandria, Va.)

7/93Number of five-inch South American grasshoppers found in Florida last year: 5

Florida State Dept. of Arthropods (Gainesville)

7/93Chances that a doctor’s diagnosis of Lyme disease is erroneous: 4 in 5

Allen Steere, New England Medical Center (Boston)

7/93Chances that an adult Medicaid patient under the age of 65 has been turned away by a doctor or hospital: 1 in 5

Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation (Menlo Park, Calif.) and National Opinion Research Center (Chicago) and Harvard Program on Public Opinion and Health Care (Boston)

7/93Number of empty beds in U.S. hospitals on any given day: 300,000

American Hospital Association (Chicago)

7/93Percentage of Americans who say they would be likely to donate a deceased family member’s organs without permission: 47

Gallup Organization (Princeton, N.J.)

7/93Estimated number of body parts suitable for piercing, according to Gauntlet, a New York City jewelry store: 30

Gauntlet (N.Y.C.)

7/93Price of a “Hillary Wig,” with detachable hairband, from New York City’s Jacquelyn Wigs: $175

Jacquelyn Wigs (N.Y.C.)

7/93Number of women scalped by hay balers in New York State since 1976: 4

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (Atlanta)

7/93Number of cows killed in drive-by shootings in Clay County, Missouri, last year: 5

Clay County Sheriff’s Dept. (Liberty, Mo.)

7/93Price of a Buffalo Burger “from the herd appearing in Dances with Wolves,” at Al’s Oasis in Oacama, South Dakota: $2.95

Al’s Oasis (Oacarna, S.Dak.)

7/93Average speed of Heinz ketchup, from the mouth of an upended bottle, in miles per year: 25

Heinz USA (Pittsburgh)