4/00Chance that a managed care patient is unaware of being enrolled in managed care: 2 in 3
4/00Chance that an American without health insurance would be covered under Al Gore’s proposed health-care plan: 1 in 2
4/00Percentage of eligible Texans who voted for George W. Bush for governor in 1994 and 1998, respectively: 27, 22
4/00Portion of Texas industrial plants operating under “grandfathered” emissions rules that predate 1971’s Clean Air Act: 1/2
4/00Gallons of oil leaked into the Gulf of Mexico this year after an oil rig’s anchor punctured an underwater pipeline: 94,500
4/00Estimated tons of PCBs that General Electric has leaked into the Hudson River since 1977’s ban on dumping the toxin: 6.8
4/00Estimated portion of whale, dolphin, and porpoise meat consumed in Japan last year whose pollution levels were toxic: 1/2
4/00Maximum tonnage by which pollution reduced China’s potential annual wheat production between 1994 and 1996: 10,000
4/00Percentage change in foreign direct investment in Vietnam between 1991 and 1996: +1,142
Percentage change since then: -43
4/00Years it took Afghanistan to restore its international phone links after civil war disabled them in 1993: 7
4/00Percentage change since 1996 in the amount of time it takes a U.S. green-card holder to become a resident: +106
4/00Number of face masks that Mexico’s Zapatista leader Subcommandante Marcos has worn out since 1994: 5
4/00Number of the eight Zapatista demands to which the Mexican government agreed in 1996 that have yet to be met: 0
4/00Minimum number of laws passed in Peru since 1992 that violate at least one article of the country’s constitution: 91
4/00Factor by which Africa’s cholera fatality rate exceeds the rate achievable with proper treatment and adequate sanitation: 5
4/00Percentage change between 1965 and 1995 in the number of U.S. households that pay for housecleaning: +53
4/00Chance that an American earning more than $100,000 in 1988 was audited: 1 in 18
4/00Factor by which combined U.S. individual charitable donations in 1998 exceeded those of foundations and corporations: 6
4/00Total return on a dollar invested in the “socially responsible” Domini 400 Social Index in 1990: $5.75
4/00Minutes of pregame snowball making allowed in the International Snow Battle Contest held this month in Finland: 30
4/00Number of days a Norse woman incubated a bird’s egg between her breasts last spring before giving up: 28
4/00Age in years of the first baby born in Denmark last January, according to the hospital’s computer: 100
Number of Americans who are at least this old: 62,000
4/00Number of U.S. Census respondents in 1990 who identified their race as “other”: 9,804,847
4/00Number of former welfare recipients New York City trained since last April to work as phone psychics: 15
4/00Number of flowers that prison inmates plant each spring at the Illinois State Fairgrounds: 110,000
4/00Ratio of April showers to plants producing May flowers at the Springfield, Illinois, Park District last year: 1:1,571