4/04Number of articles in major U.S. newspapers that have called any White House statement on Iraq a lie: 0
4/04Number of the five tax-cut questions asked the president on Meet the Press last winter that concerned the cuts’ inequity: 0
4/04Average amount a Bush Cabinet member will save this year due to cuts in capital-gains and dividend taxes: $42,000
4/04Number of Angola’s seven richest citizens who are government officials and former government officials, respectively: 6, 1
4/04Percentage change in Mexico’s inflation-adjusted minimum wage since the implementation of NAFTA in 1994: -21
4/04Last year in which U.S. commercial crude-oil inventories were as low as they were in January: 1975
4/04Rank of 2003 among years in which the most HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths occurred worldwide: 1
4/04Percentage discount that Lesotho’s prostitutes offered truckers in 2002 who used a condom: 50
4/04Number of Danes who died from heroin or morphine in 2002 for every Dane who died from methadone that year: 1.06
4/04Number of the 76 reported attempts by bears to break into New Jersey homes last year that were successful: 53
4/04Percentage of U.S. voters whose 2004 vote will be cast via a computer system producing no paper record: 29
4/04Number of votes cast in New Hampshire’s Republican primary this year for write-in Democratic candidates: 8,092
4/04Ratio of the number of Afghan men who have registered to the number of women who have done so: 10:3
4/04Amount Iraqi parents were paid for naming sons born on Saddam Hussein’s birthday after him: $200
Minimum number of Iraq’s Saddam Husseins who have officially changed their names or are in the process of doing so: 300
4/04Monthly bonus an Indian chief of police is paying his officers who grow mustaches, which, he believes, command respect: 66¢
4/04Number of countries whose technologies are suspected of having contributed to Pakistan’s nuclear program: 6
Number of countries that have received Pakistani nuclear technology: 4
4/04Estimated number of years that guards at the top U.S. nuclear storehouse have cheated during anti-terrorism drills: 20
4/04Year in which Citigroup formed a company called Buconero, Italian for “black hole,” to help Parmalat conceal debt: 1999
4/04Factor by which a blimp being developed for the U.S. government by Lockheed Martin exceeds the size of Goodyear’s: 25
4/04Number of plaques bearing biblical verses that the Park Service reinstalled at the Grand Canyon last year: 3
4/04Factor by which Florida’s white defendants are more likely than blacks to get a plea bargain blocking felony conviction: 1.5
4/04Median income of black U.S. families as a percentage of white families’ in 1968 and 2002, respectively: 60, 58
4/04Number of cents a U.S. woman earned for every dollar that a U.S. man did in 1983 and 2000, respectively: 80.4, 79.7
4/04Factor by which the average pay of a pro baseball player and a Fortune 500 CEO, respectively, have increased since 1973: 16, 4
4/04Maximum fine in Baltimore for dancing or not standing during the singing of the national anthem: $100
4/04Amount spent worldwide on mobile-phone ring tones, expressed as a percentage of the global music market: 10
4/04Number of MP3 players designed to be clipped inside an AK-47’s ammunition chamber sold worldwide last year: 10,000
Profits he reaped: $9.50