6/89World’s record for underwater pogo-sticking in the Amazon, in hours: 3.66

Guinness Publishing (London)

10/90Amount the World Bank will lend Brazil this year to spray the Amazon Basin with DDT to combat malaria: $12,000,000

World Bank (Washington)

12/90Amount the U.S. government lent Brazil last year to build a highway through the Amazon rain forest: $20,000,000

Inter-American Development Bank (Washington)

3/99Size of the business loan given Amazon.com last April after 11 consecutive months without a profit: $275,000,000

Amazon.com (Seattle)

11/04Price charged on Amazon.com this year for Lynne Cheney’s out-of-print lesbian historical novel, Sisters: $1,000

Amazon.com, Inc. (Seattle)

10/07Rank of Richard Dawkins’s The God Delusion among Amazon.co.uk’s top-selling “Religion and Spirituality” books this year: 1

Amazon.co.uk (London)

    Rank of Christopher Hitchens’s God Is Not Great: 2

Amazon.co.uk (London)

6/07Days after the DVD release of Borat that it became the top item shipped to Kazakhstan by Amazon.co.uk: 4

Amazon.com (London)