Average amount that he or she would pay to become president: $55,000
6/98Percentage change in the annual number of federal indictments of elected officials since Watergate: +291
6/98Number of the 524 subpoenas issued in Rep. Dan Burton’s campaign-finance investigation that have gone to Republicans: 9
6/98Number of Congress members who attended a Capitol Hill hearing last March on the genocide of Muslims in Bosnia: 4
6/98Years after the Rwandan massacre that President Clinton admitted “we did not act quickly enough”: 4
6/98Amount by which U.S. exports to sub-Saharan Africa last year exceeded those to former Soviet countries: $1,504,000,000
6/98Number of times since 1991 that Boris Yeltsin has replaced a cabinet member: 124
6/98Year in which General Eisenhower said that NATO “will have failed” if U.S. troops were in Europe a decade later: 1951
6/98Year in which all mobile-phone companies will be federally required to be able to locate callers to within 125 feet: 2002
6/98Portion of all research time on government supercomputers granted in 1996 that went to military scientists: 1/2
Portion that will go to military scientists this year: 5/6
6/98Amount by which NASA is over budget on its international space station: $3,900,000,000
6/98Percentage of the poverty level for a family of three earned by a full-time minimum-wage worker: 82
6/98Number of cities that require companies receiving public funds to pay a “living wage” above the federal legal minimum: 11
6/98Percentage change in the number of Texans favoring the death penalty since the execution of Karla Faye Tucker: -21
6/98Ratio of California prison jobs created between 1984 and 1994 to state jobs in higher education cut during that time: 3:1
6/98Ratio of applicants to slots for DigiPen Institute’s new degree program in video-game design and computer animation: 10:1
6/98Number of artificial reefs planned for construction worldwide to facilitate surfing: 4
6/98Ratio of the size of Lake Ontario to the size of the Gulf of Mexico’s polluted “dead zone”: 1:1
6/98Ratio of the size of New Jersey to the number of square miles of Brazilian rain forest cleared since 1994: 1:3
6/98Number of jars of Exxon Valdez oil sludge sold by the state of Alaska since last November to help pay cleanup costs: 850
6/98Total value of all Japanese capital held in no-interest savings accounts or cash: $5,544,889,025,400
6/98Number of institutions that are on a “higher moral ground” than the World Bank, according to its president: 0
Amount the Bank spent last year to gild the ceilings of its Washington headquarters: $400,000
6/98Number of cars broken into by bears last year at Yosemite National Park: 889
6/98Rank of ER among prime-time TV shows that are most popular with African-American viewers: 19
6/98Percentage of African-Americans who wish Bill Clinton could run for a third term: 74
6/98Number of people besides Al Gore who called the Washington Post last March to point out an “upside-down” Earth photo: 0
6/98Milliseconds by which El Niño’s drag on the Earth’s rotation last year extended each day’s average length: .04
6/98Estimated number of calls made to Californian Al Nino since last year by people asking, “Why are you doing this?”: 100