8/95Percentage of Americans who don’t know that Hiroshima was the site of the first atomic-bomb attack: 35
Percentage who believe the attack was ordered by Richard Nixon: 1
8/95Estimated number of killings in True Lies, a film Bob Dole cited in March as among those “most friendly to the family”: 94
Amount of the $21,000 in contributions Bob Dole has received from Time Warner since 1987 that he plans to return: 0
Minutes of airtime C-SPAN devoted in June to a National Press Club discussion of Dole by Siskel and Ebert: 64
8/95Number of viewers who called CBS during Connie Chung’s coverage of the Oklahoma bombing to ask if Dan Rather was dead: 3
8/95Number of the bombing victims whose families have retained the services of defense attorney Johnnie Cochran: 89
8/95Percentage of radio-talk-show listeners who blame the “mainstream media” for the Oklahoma bombing: 15
8/95Average percentage of local-TV evening news time that is devoted to crime and disaster coverage: 53
8/95Average percentage change, since NAFTA went into effect, in top executive salaries at the 26 largest U.S. firms in Mexico: +29
8/95Ratio of compensation paid AlliedSignal’s CEO last year to wages the firm paid its 3,810 Mexican maquiladora workers: 3:2
8/95Chances that a job in one of the ten largest industrialized countries is industrial: 1 in 4
Percentage change in the number employed by the federal government: +5
8/95Estimated change in annual federal revenues if corporations were taxed at 1953 rates: +$53,000,000,000
8/95Percentage of contributions to the Republican National Committee since 1993 that were of $1,000 or more: 7
Percentage of contributions to the Democratic National Committee that were: 27
8/95Number of Susan B. Anthony dollars held by the federal government: 291,000,000
Cost of storing them, per year: $30,000
8/95Number of Russians injured on escalators in the Moscow Metro last year who were drunk at the time: 84
8/95Chances that a Catholic saint canonized since 1978 is Vietnamese: 2 in 5
8/95Number of U.S. Army tanks the Army Corps of Engineers plans to “deploy” off Alabama’s coast this year to create a reef: 100
8/95Ratio of the amount of oil spilled near Usinsk, Russia, since last August to that spilled by the Exxon Valdez: 3:1
8/95Percentage change since 1994 in the price of one minute of prime-time TV advertising in Russia: +200
8/95Ratio of the price of the Los Angeles Times in South Central L.A. to the price in Orange County: 2:1
8/95Number of subscribers to Call of the Wind, a California paging service that alerts windsurfers to good conditions: 450
8/95Price of renting a duck to compete in the annual Great American Duck Race held in Deming, New Mexico, this month: $5
8/95Estimated number of mosquito bites required to drain all the blood from an American adult: 1,120,000
8/95Estimated number of bug zappers required to kill all the insects in the world: 1,104,120,000,000