4/00Total return on a dollar invested in the “socially responsible” Domini 400 Social Index in 1990: $5.75

Hal Brill, Jack A. Brill, and Cliff Feigenbaum, Investing With Your Values, Bloomberg Press (Princeton, N.J.)

    Total return on a dollar invested in the S&P 500: $4.63

Hal Brill, Jack A. Brill, and Cliff Feigenbaum, Investing With Your Values, Bloomberg Press (Princeton, N.J.)

2/03Minimum amount S&P 500 corporations owe in retirement benefits for which they have set aside no funds: $458,000,000,000

Merrill Lynch (N.Y.C.)

11/85Portion of American households made up of a single person in 1955: 1/10

U.S. Census Bureau

    Today: 1/4

U.S. Census Bureau

1/00Number of New York City children issued Civil Defense dog tags by 1952 to identify them after a nuclear attack: 2,500,000

Jonas and Nissenson, Going, Going, Gone

10/06Number of the last six years that fine-art prices have outperformed the S&P 500: 5

Mei Moses All Art Index (N.Y.C.)