7/02Chance an American believes it is very likely that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will lead to World War III: 1 in 5
7/02Chance an American believes that peace in the Middle East will require a military victory: 1 in 2
7/02Military budget of Israel in 1967 expressed as a percentage of the budgets of Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, and Syria combined: 58
7/02Number of references to Israeli “retaliation” on U.S. network nightly newscasts between September 2000 and March 2002: 118
Number of references to Palestinian “retaliation”: 14
7/02Number of hours Israeli soldiers in Ramallah broadcast pornography on seven Palestinian television stations in March: 48
7/02Number of years that a member of the Council on Foreign Relations has authored Parade magazine’s celebrity-gossip column: 11
7/02Number of subscribers to Japanese prime minister Junichiro Koizumi’s email magazine Lionheart: 2,200,000
7/02Length in pages of the U.S.-Soviet nuclear-arms-reduction treaty signed by George H.W. Bush in 1991: 630
7/02Percentage of their respective nations’ popular vote won in 2000 by George W. Bush and Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez: 48, 60
7/02Amount that Bush’s first 320 appointees spent on campaign contributions in the previous election cycle: $1,590,000
Amount that Bill Clinton’s first 320 appointees spent on campaign contributions in the election cycle prior to Clinton’s election: $1,040,000
7/02Number of times Attorney General John Ashcroft has overruled a local prosecutor’s decision not to seek the death penalty: 12
Average number of times former attorney general Janet Reno did this in as many months: 7
7/02Number of Florida State University students arrested in March for protesting while not in a designated “free-speech area”: 12
7/02Rank of “no religion” among responses given in 1990 by Americans asked to identify their religious grouping: 5
7/02Daily fine introduced last month for the outdoor use of upholstered furniture in Normal, Illinois: $100
7/02Number of fishing boats bought and sunk by the U.S. government since 1995 in efforts to protect overfished species: 88
7/02Number of years after its founding that the shipping newspaper Lloyd’s List last April stopped referring to ships as “she”: 268
7/02Percentage of male fish in two English rivers that scientists say have been “effectively feminised” by estrogen in the water: 100
7/02Ratio of the size of an Amazonian “paradoxical frog” to that of its tadpole: 1:3
7/02Percentage of Americans who would sign away their right to sue the maker of a pill that could make part of their body bigger: 3
Percentage who say they would do so for the maker of a pill that could make part of their body smaller: 6
7/02Chance that a prescription drug approved by the FDA will be recalled or require relabeling within 25 years of its release: 1 in 5
7/02Percentage change in the number of prescription-drug products recalled by the FDA since 1998: +40
7/02Days after receiving it last year that a California dump lost its landmark status because it is a Superfund site: 20
Amount spent since 1989 to clean up the site: $23,000,000
7/02Minutes after a tornado hit Shiloh, Illinois, in April that the town’s warning siren sounded: 30
7/02Months after enacting it that California’s energy commission last spring renewed its ban on using duct tape on ducts: 16
7/02Chances an American believes the government should regulate comedy routines that make light of terrorist attacks: 2 in 5
7/02Number of requests Nevada has received since January for a new license-plate design featuring a mushroom cloud: 322
7/02Amount Congress allocated Blue Springs, Missouri, this spring to help the town combat “gothic culture”: $237,437
Miles from Blue Springs to the nearest Gothic cathedral: 4,280