4/98Minimum number of the 10 biological materials suspected in Iraqi warfare research that were supplied by U.S. firms: 9

Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

4/98Number of biological materials with military potential sent to Iraq by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control in the 1980s: 14

Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

4/98Ratio of Iraqi chemical-warfare agents destroyed in the Gulf War to those since destroyed under U.N. pressure: 2:5

U.N. Security Council (N.Y.C.)

4/98Estimated ratio of veterans reporting Gulf War syndrome symptoms to total U.S. Vietnam War combat deaths: 4:1

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta)/Department of Veterans Affairs/Department of Defense

4/98Months after Martin Luther King Jr. publicly called the U.S. the “world’s greatest purveyor of violence ” that he was killed: 2

Martin Luther King Jr. Library (Atlanta)

4/98Maximum fine for begging without a permit in Orlando, Florida: $500

City Attorney’s Office (Orlando, Fla.)

4/98Minimum distance, in feet, that Orlando beggars must maintain from those they ask for money: 3

City Attorney’s Office (Orlando, Fla.)

4/98Ratio of the average amount a U.S. family spent on food, clothing, and shelter last year to what it spent on taxes: 3:4

Tax Foundation (Washington)

4/98Percentage of Germans who believe that those who don’t cheat on their taxes “deserve only pity”: 46

Taxpayer Association of Germany (Düsseldorf)

4/98Chance that an American would rather be mugged than audited: 1 in 2

Luntz Research (Arlington, Va.)

4/98Portion of IRS audits that are conducted on large corporations: 1/500

IRS

4/98Portion of fines levied and underpayments cited by the IRS each year for which large corporations are responsible: 1/2

IRS

4/98Ratio of the net worth of the richest 1 percent of U.S. households to the size of the national debt: 2:1

Professor Edward N. Wolff, N.Y.U. (N.Y.C.)/Congressional Budget Office

4/98Amount that U.S. health-care professionals owe in defaulted student loans: $107,000,000

Health Resources and Services Administration (Washington)

    Rank of chiropractors among those most likely to default: 1

Health Resources and Services Administration (Washington)

4/98Number of CAT scans a Minneapolis radiologist performed last year on violins: 10

Consulting Radiologists Limited (Minneapolis)

4/98Number of Astoria Federal Savings ATMs in New York City at which transactions may be conducted in Yiddish: 31

Astoria Federal Savings (Lake Success, N.Y.)

4/98Percentage change since 1965 in the number of kosher delis in New York City: -88

Ronald M. Dragoon, Ben’s Delis (N.Y.C.)

4/98Number of Florida matzo dealers currently under investigation for price-fixing: 9

U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler

4/98Percentage of Americans who believe that Jesus Christ sinned during his lifetime: 42

Tyndale House (Carol Stream, Ill.)

    Percentage who believe that senators have “very high ethical standards”: 2

The Gallup Poll (Princeton, N.J.)

4/98Chance that a woman first elected to the U.S. House or Senate before 1993 was a congressional widow: 1 in 4

Congressional Women, Greenwood Press (N.Y.C.)

4/98Percentage of Americans who say they would not want their 21-year-old daughter to intern in the Clinton White House: 44

U.P.I. poll (Washington)

4/98Ratio of bacteria living in a pound of mud to those living in a pound of dirt: 1,000:1

W. T. Frankenberger Jr., University of California (Riverside)

4/98Rank of chemical fertilizer among the top agricultural products the U.S. exports to China: 1

U.S. Foreign Trade Bureau

4/98Percentage of the raw materials bought by Mexican maquiladoras last year that came from Mexican suppliers: 2.1

Instituto Nacional de Estadistica Geografia é Informatica (Mexico City)

4/98Percentage of crimes reported in Mexico City since 1993 that have been solved: 3.7

Professor Rafael Ruiz Harrell, National University of Mexico (Mexico City)

4/98Chance that a U.S. criminal defendant is acquitted by reason of insanity: 1 in 427

Policy Research Associates, Inc. (Delmar, N.Y.)

4/98Percentage of U.S. hospital deaths that follow a decision to withhold treatment: 70

Journal of the American Medical Association, vol. 256 (Chicago)

4/98Ratio of the average volume of a breast implant inserted in the U.S. to that of one inserted in Europe: 3:2

Mentor Medical Inc. (Santa Barbara, Calif.)

4/98Length, in feet, of a wooden penis carried through the streets of Komaki, Japan, during a spring fertility ceremony: 8.3

Nagoya City Representative Office (Los Angeles)

4/98Chance that an American man believes that oral sex does not constitute adultery: 1 in 8

Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll (N.Y.C.)

    Chance that an American woman believes this: 1 in 9

Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll (N.Y.C.)

4/98Months after Bill Clinton’s inauguration that heterosexual fellatio was legalized in Washington, D.C.: 4

Thomas Coleman, Spectrum Institute, (Los Angeles)

    Number of states in which the practice is still illegal: 14

Ain’t Nobody’s Business If You Do, Prelude Press (Los Angeles)

4/98Number of states in which it is illegal to publicly disparage a particular foodstuff: 13

Grocery Manufacturers of America (Washington)

4/98Number of complimentary doughnuts Bob Dole receives each week as part of his Dunkin’ Donuts contract: 60

Senator Dole’s Office (Washington)

    Number he distributed to reporters waiting outside Monica Lewinsky’s Watergate apartment last February 2: 48

Senator Dole’s Office (Washington)

4/98Amount that the Paula Jones Legal Fund has spent since 1994 on “pet care” for a dog named Mitzie: $95

“President Clinton’s Opposition to Motions of Paula Jones et al.,” served in U.S. District Court, 11/13/97