1/94Chances that a job created in the U.S. since the end of the recession is at Wal-Mart: 1 in 14

Wal-Mart (Bentonville, Ark.)/U.S. Dept. of Labor

1/94Number of America’s ten largest industrial companies that have created new jobs since the end of the recession: 1

New York magazine (N.Y.C.)

1/94Amount IBM will spend this year on parties for its top employees: $20,000,000

Michael Miller, Wall Street Journal (N.Y.C.)

1/94Amount Miller Brewing spends each year to promote its Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund: $300,000

Miller Brewing Co. (Milwaukee)

    Amount it spends each year to endow the scholarship: $150,000

Miller Brewing Co. (Milwaukee)

1/94Amount the Miami tourist bureau will spend this year on public-relations “crisis management”: $75,000

Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau

1/94Number of fire bombings in Sacramento, California, since July for which the Aryan Liberation Front has taken credit: 5

Sacramento Police Dept. (Calif.),

1/94Chances that a Korean-owned business damaged during the L.A. riots in 1992 has not re-opened: 1 in 2

Korean-American Inter-Agency Council (Los Angeles)

1/94Percentage of all immigrants to the United States during the 1980s who were receiving welfare in 1989: 4

U.S. News & World Report (Washington)

1/94Rank of Ecuadorans, Italians, and Poles, among the largest illegal immigrant groups in New York State: 1,2,3

N.Y.C. Dept. of City Planning

1/94Ratio of the number of New York City cabbies killed last year to the number of U.S. soldiers killed in Somalia: 6:5

N.Y.C. Police Dept./U.S. Dept. of Defense

1/94Percentage of Americans who do not know that Somalia is in Africa: 43

Yankelovich Partners (Westport, Conn.)

1/94Chances that an African lives outside of his or her country of birth: 1 in 18

International Labour Organisation (N.Y.C.)

1/94Number of Kuwaiti human-rights groups permanently banned last August by the Kuwaiti government: 6

Human Rights Watch (N.Y.C.)

1/94Ratio of the number of refugees in Iran to the number in Germany: 5:1

U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (N.Y.C.)

1/94Chances that a Briton would move to another country “if free to do so”: 1 in 2

Gallup (London)

1/94Percentage of Russians who believe their country will become more democratic in the next few years: 36

U.S. News & World Report poll (Washington)

1/94Ratio of Russians with a favorable opinion of Stalin today to those with a favorable opinion of Gorbachev: 6:5

U.S. News & World Report poll (Washington)

1/94Average number of times per week last year that Lenin’s corpse was washed: 2

Andrew Higgins, The Independent (Moscow)

1/94Contributions made last year to the Sam Donaldson Hairpiece Replacement Fund: $90

Governor William Donald Schaefer (Annapolis, Md.)

1/94Reward the town of Burns, Oregon, is offering anyone who can convince a medical doctor to move there: $15,000

Dayton Duncan, Miles fram Nowhere: Tales from America’s Contemporary Frontier (Viking, N.Y.C.)

1/94Chances that hospital care will save the life of a heart-attack victim who does not respond to on-site care: 1 in 200

Arthur Kellerman, University of Tennessee (Memphis), and Paul Pepe, Baylor College of Medicine (Houston)

1/94Amount spent each year on emergency hospital care for non-responsive heart-attack victims: $500,000,000

Arthur Kellerman, University of Tennessee (Memphis), and Paul Pepe, Baylor College of Medicine (Houston)

1/94Monthly fee charged by Courtscan, a Philadelphia company providing physicians with patients’ litigation records: $79.95

Courtscan (Philadelphia)

1/94Estimated portion of the price of an eight-foot stepladder accounted for by litigation costs and insurance: 1/5

Philip J. Hermann, The 96 Billion Dollar Game: You Are Losing (Legal Information Publications, Beachwood, Ohio)

1/94Average percentage markup on an “economy” casket sold by a US. funeral home: 300

Casket Gallery International (Mesquite, Tex.)

1/94Rank of January, among months in which the greatest number of Americans die: 1

National Center for Health Statistics (Hyattsville, Md.)

1/94Ratio of January sales of health-club memberships to average monthly sales during the rest of the year: 3:2

IRSA (Boston)

1/94Price of a pair of used Air Jordans in Japan: $60

Green for Jeans (Pt. Richmond, Calif.)

1/94Profits earned last year by two men selling used girls’ underpants from vending machines in Japan: $96,000

Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo)

1/94Ratio of copies of The Age of Innocence sold in 1993 to the total number sold during the 1980s: 6:1

Macmillan (N.Y.C.)

1/94Rank of Ivanhoe, among the best-selling books in Cuba last year: 1

Bohemia magazine (Havana, Cuba)

1/94Percentage change, since 1991, in the number of Visa cards issued in China: +300

Visa International (San Francisco)

1/94Hours the average Chinese worker must work to earn the price of an ice-cream cone at Beijing’s new Baskin-Robbins: 7

Baskin-Robbins (Beijing)/State Statistical Bureau (Beijing)

1/94Cups of iceberg lettuce one must consume in order to satisfy the minimum daily requirement of any vitamin: 27.5

U.S. Dept. of Agriculture

    Cups of spinach one must consume in order to satisfy the minimum daily requirement of any vitamin: 1.3

U.S. Dept. of Agriculture

1/94Rounds it took 16-year-old Dallas Malloy to win the first official women’s amateur boxing match, held last fall: 3

USA Boxing (Colorado Springs)

1/94Extra points kicked by a Virginia high school football player last fall after being elected Homecoming Queen at halftime: 3

West Potomac High School (Alexandria, Va.)

1/94Chances that a member of the Hempstead, Texas, high school cheerleading squad was pregnant last fall: 1 in 4

Hotline Press (Hempstead, Tex.)