2/02Minimum percentage of votes in each New York City election since 1988 not counted due to mechanical or human error: 3

Voting Technology Project (Cambridge, Mass.)

    Percentage of votes by which Michael Bloomberg won the city’s mayoralty last fall: 2.3

New York City Board of Elections

    Number of May Day demonstrators the city prosecuted last June for “masquerading in public”: 12

New York Civil Liberties Union (N.Y.C.)

9/98Amount that Bear, Stearns’ chairman donated to a New York hospital last June to sponsor Viagra for the poor: $1,000,000

Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. (N.Y.C.)

8/88Chances that an adult will die after a fall from six stories: 9 in 10

Robert Dernling and Kenneth Warner, Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Boston)

    Chances that a cat will: 1 in 10

C.J. Mehlhoff and W.O. Whitney, Animal Medical Center (N.Y.C.)

4/91Number of cats the U.S. Army has shot in the head since 1983 in order to research battlefield injuries: 648

U.S. General Accounting Office

10/92Average annual salary Zabar’s delicatessen in New York City pays lox slicers with at least ten years’ experience: $60,000

David Zabar (N.Y.C.)