6/97Number of legal-research junkets to foreign countries made by members of Timothy McVeigh’s defense team since 1995: 9
Number of lawyers, investigators, and technical experts involved in McVeigh’s court-appointed defense: 44
6/97Percentage change since 1995 in federal spending on court-appointed attorneys for death-penalty cases: +68
6/97Ratio of legal fees paid by Newt Gingrich’s reelection campaign last year to the amount it spent on TV and radio ads: 5:4
6/97Percentage of Americans who believe they are more likely to see Elvis Presley than campaign-finance reform: 48
6/97Portion of the combined funds in the Senate’s five largest campaign chests that belongs to Alfonse D’Amato: 1/2
6/97Fine levied last October against a Dole campaign-finance official convicted of laundering contributions: $6,000,000
6/97Price Richard Nixon’s family proposes the U.S. government pay to release remaining Watergate documents: $26,000,000
6/97Symbolic portion of Gene Roddenberry and Timothy Leary shot into orbit last April, in ounces of ashes apiece: 0.25
6/97Quarts of Starbucks Java Chip ice cream found in the freezer of the Heaven’s Gate compound last March 27: 7
6/97Rank of Salt Lake City in per capita Jell-O consumption: 1
6/97Combined number of root canals performed last year on two Kodiak bears at the San Francisco Zoo: 7
6/97Number of months ago that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began a “self-study” course in Arabic: 4
6/97Chance that a Palestinian approves of suicide bombings: 1 in 3
6/97Percentage of annual weapons exports that are sold by the five countries on the U.N. Security Council: 85
6/97Estimated percentage of all goods and services produced worldwide last year that came from Asia: 22
6/97Portion of California’s revenue between 1852 and 1870 that came from taxes paid by Chinese laborers: 1/2
6/97Number of Americans employed domestically by U.S. subsidiaries of foreign corporations: 4,900,000
6/97Number of years since 1950 in which the U.S. Forest Service timber program has not operated at a loss: 3
6/97Percentage increase since 1992 in the amount of overtime wages paid the White House domestic staff: +38
6/97Hourly fee paid the “ethics adviser” employed by Kenneth Starr during his first 19 months as Special Prosecutor: $400
6/97Number of Russia’s 97 army divisions that are combat-ready, according to security chief Alexander Lebed: 8
6/97Number of Mexico’s federal law-enforcement agents fired last year for violating “ethical standards”: 1,200
6/97Number of Latin American countries in which a rapist is exonerated if the victim accepts his marriage proposal: 14
6/97Chance that a Florida rape victim’s account will be believed by hospital medical personnel: 1 in 2
6/97Percentage of Planned Parenthood donors in 1994 who also donated to Operation Rescue that year: 17
Number introduced so far this year: 800
6/97Chances that a U.S. doctor specializing in pain has under-medicated patients for fear of losing his or her license: 2 in 5
6/97Number of years the head of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America served as CEO of a pharmaceutical firm: 12
6/97Chance that a romance cited by People magazine last year as among the century’s “greatest love stories” was adulterous: 1 in 2
6/97Chance that a U.S. teenage girl will be pregnant within one month of becoming sexually active: 1 in 5