11/03Age in years of a California bristlecone pine that is the oldest tree on earth: 4,733

U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service

    Age in years of a Nevada bristlecone when the U.S. Forest Service let a graduate student cut it down in 1964: 4,950

U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service

12/95Fee charged by a California design firm to place a string of lights on an outdoor Christmas tree, lights not included: $75

SFS-FX Christmas Displays (Arcadia, Calif.)

7/94Number of women asked to leave an exhibit of Rubens nudes in Toledo, Ohio, last winter because they were breast-feeding: 1

Toledo Museum of Art (Toledo, Ohio)

3/97Attendance at the first annual Christian Nudist Convention, held last year in Shallotte, North Carolina: 65

Whispering Pines Nudist Camp (Shallotte, N.C.)

7/94Number of participants in the annual Sidewalk Egg-Frying Contest held in Oatman, Arizona, last July 4: 10

Fred Eck (Oatman, Ariz.)