1/93Attendance at opening day of the Smile Face Museum in Silver Spring, Maryland, last fall: 100

Smile Face Museum (Silver Spring, Md.)

11/87Amount paid at auction for the hunting permit to kill one bighorn sheep in Montana in 1987: $109,000

Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Parks (Helena, Mont.)

12/02Average number of people killed per week by a sniper operating in suburban Maryland and Virginia this fall: 3

Harper’s research

    Average number of homicides per week during the same period in Washington, D.C.: 7

Harper’s research

5/96Percentage of European rabbits in southern Australia killed last fall by the inadvertent release of a virus: 95

Australian Consulate General (N.Y.C.)

    Percentage that the virus’s planned release was meant to kill: 100

Australian Consulate General (N.Y.C.)

3/00Number of British women killed last fall by lightning conducted through their underwire bras: 2

West London Coroner’s Office (London)