10/94Percentage of Americans who say “nothing the U.S. could accomplish in Haiti would be worth the life of one U.S. soldier”: 50
10/94Chances that an arms sale made to a developing country last year was made by the United States: 3 in 4
10/94Year in which the Department of Energy will begin spending less on military projects than on environmental ones: 1994
10/94Maximum amount of radiation per American the government allows nuclear facilities to release each year, in millirems: 100
Chances that a person exposed to such radiation will get cancer, according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission: 1 in 286
10/94Number of years Bob Dole’s health insurance has been paid for by the federal government: 39
Chances that a typical plan covers oral contraceptives: 1 in 3
10/94Number of countries whose fertility rates have declined at least 50 percent during the last generation: 17
10/94Ratio of worldwide military spending, per soldier, to educational spending, per school-age child: 25:1
10/94Gallons of milk produced in the United States last year, expressed as a percentage of annual consumption: 103
10/94Gallons of hamburger grease sold by McDonald’s since 1955: 281,250,000
10/94Percentage of Americans who believe that the world will be “better off” in the year 2000: 26
10/94Rank of Virginia, among states with the largest ghost population, according to the Ghost Research Society: 1
10/94Percentage of Oliver North’s Senate campaign contributions of more than $200 that came from outside Virginia: 87
Percentage of his opponent’s reelection-campaign contributions of more than $200 that did: 81
10/94Ratio of contributions made to the Democratic Party since 1990 by Judith Krantz to those made by Jane Fonda: 3:1
10/94Rank of Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon, among the best-selling president masks last Halloween: 1,2
10/94Height, in feet, of a West Virginia prison wall scaled last June by an escaping inmate using a cord made of dental floss: 18
10/94Number of stories a New York City cat fell last June without sustaining serious injury: 46
Average number of stories a cat must fall before reaching its maximum falling velocity of 60 miles per hour: 5
10/94Number of transatlantic flights the Concorde can complete in the time required for Columbus’s first voyage: 448
10/94Number of “translators” commissioned last year by a Yale divinity student to convert the Bible into Klingon: 10
10/94Percentage change since 1985 in membership of the Flat Earth Research Society: +70
Rank of “the boss’s desk” among the most popular places to do so: 1