5/07Percentage of Pakistanis and Indonesians who say that attacks on civilians are sometimes justified to defend Islam: 8
Percentage of Americans who say that attacks on civilians are sometimes justified: 24
5/07Number of magnetic “Support Our Troops” ribbons sold by the leading manufacturer in 2004: 4,000,000
5/07Percentage of veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan who have filed for disability with the VA: 27
5/07Percentage of soldiers given medical discharges in 2001 who were given permanent disability benefits: 10
Percentage in 2005 who were: 3
5/07Chances that an American thinks the United States has a “mainly positive influence” on the world: 2 in 3
5/07Percentage of top Soviet officials under Mikhail Gorbachev who were drawn from the armed forces or security services: 5
Percentage of top Russian officials who have been under Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin, respectively: 47, 78
5/07Weeks after losing his Senate seat that Rick Santorum joined a think tank to start a program called America’s Enemies: 9
5/07Number of cases brought by U.S. Attorneys between 2002 and 2004 that the Justice Department listed as terror-related: 3,279
Percentage of these that had no evidence linking them to terror activity, according to an internal audit: 47
5/07Number of suits filed against Rudy Giuliani between 1994 and 2001 by the New York Civil Liberties Union: 34
5/07Percentage of Americans in February who said they would be unlikely to vote for a candidate who has been divorced twice: 26
Percentage who said they would be unlikely to vote for a 72-year-old: 58
Percentage who said they would be unlikely to vote for an African American or a smoker, respectively: 6, 21
5/07Total donations that Barack Obama has received from tobacco companies since 2000: $0
5/07Amount that Alan Greenspan reportedly received for the February 26 speech in which he warned of a recession: $150,000
Total value that U.S. stock markets lost the next day, partly as a result of his warning: $632,000,000,000
5/07Number of L.A. branches of Bank of America that now offer credit cards to customers without Social Security numbers: 51
5/07Minimum number of new U.S. anti-immigration groups formed since January 2005: 305
5/07Number of different Hindu rituals that Saranam.com will perform on one’s behalf at temples in India: 104
Price for the most expensive ritual, the three-hour Chandi Homam: $630
5/07Percentage of U.S. Catholic dioceses that say they have had incidents of embezzlement during the last five years: 85
5/07Rank of money and God, respectively, among “the very best thing[s] in the world” to British children under 10: 1, 10
5/07Rank of Britain among twenty-one rich countries the U.N. ranked this year for “child well-being”: 21
Rank of the United States: 20
5/07Portion of all Iranians who are under the age of 30: 3/5
5/07Denomination in rials of Iran’s new largest banknote, which features a nuclear-power symbol on its back: 50,000
5/07Number of British men last year who had cosmetic surgery to reduce the size of their breasts: 177
5/07Amount the British military spent in 2002 researching whether psychics could find terrorist hideouts: $35,000
Chance that a psychic it tested could, blindfolded, identify some portion of the contents of a sealed envelope: 1 in 3