8/97Number of months since Congress imposed a moratorium on hearing new ethics complaints against members: 6
8/97Ratio of times a member of Congress was accused of being a “liar” in the 104th session to the times a foreigner was: 4:1
Average ratio in the three previous terms: 1:2
8/97Percentage of Americans earning less than $25,000 a year who believe the President propositioned Paula Jones: 29
Percentage of Americans earning at least $50,000 a year who believe this: 48
8/97Factor by which a circumcised heterosexual man is more likely to receive oral sex than an uncircumcised one: 1.33
8/97Number of U.S. military personnel convicted of adultery in the last year: 124
8/97Estimated percentage change since 1996 in the number of Air Force pilots who have voluntarily left the service: +40
8/97Number of soldiers and veterans who testified last June that Timothy McVeigh was a model soldier: 11
8/97Estimated number of former Nazi SS officers or their dependents receiving a pension from the German government: 65,000
Number of them who live in the U.S.: 3,377
8/97Highest bid offered at auction last May for the Watergate Hotel lock picked in 1972 to get into DNC offices: $13,000
Bid the seller expected: $25,000
8/97Percentage of Americans who believe Richard Nixon did nothing “worse than what other presidents have done”: 70
8/97Estimated number of “objectionable” Web pages to which Microsystems’ Cyber Patrol program blocks access: 3,000,000
8/97Portion of CIA documents to be declassified in 2000 for which the agency has requested exemption: 2/3
Estimated number there today: 2,500
8/97Number of North America’s six sea turtle species that are not on the endangered list: 1
8/97First edition of Joy of Cooking not to include a recipe for a soup made from endangered turtles: 1997
8/97Letters of complaint elicited by a Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman episode in which she supports evolution: 80
Letters of complaint the show received about an episode in which her son goes camping with Walt Whitman: 94
8/97Number of actors who auditioned last winter to be the new Captain Kangaroo: 1,000
8/97Change in the number of Americans able to receive C-Span since Congress altered cable laws in 1992: -3,500,000
8/97Estimated number of days each year during which no major-league sports event takes place in the U.S.: 5
8/97Percentage of Americans who say they’ve never heard of Marv Albert: 46
8/97Points by which Frank Gifford’s approval rating exceeds that of Newt Gingrich: 8
8/97Price California’s Fidelity Information Recovery service charges to send an “operative” to test a mate’s faithfulness: $350
8/97Price of a charcoal-lined, U.S. military-surplus body bag from the Sportsman’s Guide catalogue: $12.88
8/97Number of consumer products O.J. Simpson plans to market under his six trademarks: 463
8/97Number of films to be released by the end of the year in which Larry King plays himself: 8
8/97Ratio of The Lost World to Jurassic Park in the amount of screen time devoted to dinosaurs eating people: 7:1