8/85Percentage of Broadway tickets that are bought by companies and deducted as a business expense: 20
10/85Percentage of teenagers who say they favor a one-year national youth service program for men: 62
1/88Percentage of public kindergarten students in Los Angeles who are Hispanic: 62
9/89Percentage of fast-food restaurant employees who say they have stolen food or money from their employer: 62
5/97Percentage of Minnesota counties reporting a “highly unusual number” of deformed frogs last year: 62
3/01Percentage of Venezuelans voting last December who approved a government-sponsored resolution to oust all union leaders: 62
Percentage of registered Venezuelan voters who voted at all: 23.5
4/02Number of Israeli military personnel jailed since September 2000 for refusing to serve in the Occupied Territories: 34
Minimum number of Israeli high school students who wrote Prime Minister Ariel Sharon last fall to refuse in advance: 62
7/03Number of terrorism indictments brought since September 2001 by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New Jersey: 62
Number of them brought against Middle Eastern students for paying others to take their English proficiency tests: 60
1/04Percentage of Americans who say they would prefer a universal health-care system to the current one: 62
5/05Percentage of Republicans who say they would vote for Bush over George Washington: 62
5/06Percentage of China’s investable assets that are controlled by the richest half-percent of households: 62
9/86Percentage of Americans who say they are “dissatisfied with the honesty and standards” of others: 63
8/90Percentage of Americans who say that, given the choice, they would rather hear the bad news first: 63
3/88Number of Americans 65 or older who are arrested each day for drunkenness and disorderly conduct: 63
3/96Percentage of American men who believe “the country would be better off” if more members of Congress were women: 63
Percentage of these that predate the Republican takeover of Congress in 1994: 52
8/03Percentage of South Carolinians prosecuted under the state’s “anti-lynching” law since 1998 who are black: 63
10/06Percentage of Americans in July who said the U.S. had “a responsibility to try to resolve” the Israeli-Arab conflict: 33
Percentage of Americans who think that the president has “a lot” of control over the price of gasoline: 63
2/07Percentage of city-dwelling Indian men aged 16 to 25 who say they expect the woman they marry to be a virgin: 63
Percentage of these who have had sex with a prostitute or another man, respectively: 22, 17
3/07Percentage change since 2002 in the number of U.S. teens using illegal drugs: –15
Percentage change in the number of adults in their fifties doing so: +63
7/84Earnings of the average U.S. female worker, expressed as a percentage of the average male’s, in 1981: 59.9
10/84Percentage of adolescent boys who say they “hit or beat up another kid” in the past year: 64
3/86Percentage of Americans between ages 6 and 17 who cannot pass a basic fitness test: 64
9/87Percentage increase, since 1986, in the number of fashion pages in Vogue and Elle featuring black models: 64
Estimated percentage of Palestinian stone-throwers who are under 13 years of age: 60
3/90Percentage of journalists who say they would permit their child to have contact with a schoolmate with AIDS: 64
Percentage of scientists who say this: 39
5/90Percentage of Americans who do not know which country will control the Panama Canal in the year 2000: 64
9/94Number of U.S. cities in which AIDS is the leading cause of death among adults between the ages of 25 and 44: 64
11/97Average number of new millionaires created in Silicon Valley each day last year: 64
10/01Percentage of Americans who say Israel and the Arab nations will never “be able to settle their differences and live in peace”: 64
5/02Percentage of Enron’s 3,100 subsidiaries at the time of its bankruptcy that were located in other countries: 64
8/02Years before the death of Britain’s Queen Mother in March that the Times of London first wrote her obituary: 64
3/05Percentage of Britons who say their neighborhood would disapprove if more Iraqi immigrants moved in: 64
Percentage who say this about black immigrants from Africa: 43
4/85Percentage of supermarket buying decisions that are made in the store: 65
5/86Corporate sponsors of the recent dog-sled expedition to the North Pole: 65
9/86Percentage of Brazilians who suffer from malnutrition: 65
Percentage of American chief executive officers who do: 65
10/90Percentage of Americans under the age of 30 who say they read a daily newspaper: 40
Percentage of Americans over the age of 50 who say they do: 65
1/96Acres of old-growth forest that Wilderness Society president John Roush had cleared from his ranch last year: 65
3/97Attendance at the first annual Christian Nudist Convention, held last year in Shallotte, North Carolina: 65
10/97Price of a pair of fangs from New York City’s Sabretooth boutique: $65
9/98Percentage of U.S. National Park Service land that is in Alaska: 65
11/00Average annual number of traffic accidents in Iowa caused by low visibility due to corn stalks: 65
7/01Percentage change, since January, in the stock price of 99¢ Only Stores: +65
6/03Minimum number of times that actor Martin Sheen has been arrested in political protests: 60
Minimum number of times Abbie Hoffman was: 65
8/04Percentage of Britons who cannot name the city that provides the setting for the musical Chicago: 65
10/04Rank of this year’s desert-locust plague in northern Africa among the world’s worst in 15 years: 1
Number of countries susceptible to such a plague: 65
Average number made each year under Bill Clinton: 65
In South Africa: 4
11/86Attacks made on the United States in speeches at the 1980 conference of non-aligned nations, in Havana: 14
9/89Percentage of CEOs who say they would “hesitate” to promote a homosexual to an executive position: 66
Percentage of the U.S. Marines discharged last year for homosexuality who were women: 35
Percentage of U.S. Marines last year who were women: 5
4/90Percentage of the proposed capital-gains tax cut that will go to the richest 1 percent of American families: 66
Percentage of the cut that will go to American families earning less than $50,000 a year: 6
4/92Percentage change, since 1990, in the number of new “gourmet” products introduced in U.S. stores: +66
10/93Percentage of South Carolina’s corn crop destroyed by heat and drought: 66
7/95Percentage of men between twenty-five and thirty-four who earn enough to keep a family of four from poverty: 66
2/97Percentage of children between 6 and 9 who know that Jerry Lewis was the star of the original Nutty Professor: 66
3/97Percentage of the cigarettes sold overseas by U.S. companies last year that were manufactured overseas: 66
9/99Speed at which an Iowa state trooper clocked a car last July in which Pat Buchanan was on the phone with Oliver North: 66
3/00Number of people in North Carolina killed by automobiles since 1998 after lying in the middle of the road: 66
8/02Percentage of Washington, D.C., murder cases opened last year that remained unsolved by year’s end: 66
4/04Monthly bonus an Indian chief of police is paying his officers who grow mustaches, which, he believes, command respect: 66¢
8/07Percentage of conservative voters who said in May that they favor amnesty for illegal immigrants: 55
Percentage who said they would be less likely to vote for a presidential candidate who favored such a plan: 66
Ratings for Harry Truman in 1952 and Richard Nixon in 1974, respectively, the only presidents ever to climb as high: 67, 66
8/08Percentage of U.S. children who think kids who wear glasses are smarter than those who do not: 66
2/09Number of Iraqi stray dogs that Operation Baghdad Pups has helped emigrate to the United States since 2003: 66
Number currently on the waiting list: 50
9/96Maximum legal length, in feet, of a limousine in California: 65
Length, in feet, of the longest one available for rental there: 66.5
9/85Percentage of Iowans who say that music videos are one of the “least useful changes” in modern life: 67
Who say that front-porch swings “should be brought back”: 57
Percentage who cannot name the region of the country William Faulkner wrote about: 67
Percentage who say that the United States should maintain its military strength no matter what it costs: 67
3/90Number of times the phrase “do the right thing” has been used in Congress since Spike Lee’s film was released last June: 67
Number of times the phrase was used in reference to a congressional pay raise: 16
Number of times it was used in reference to racial issues: 1
7/90Percentage of American women who said in 1970 that men were “basically kind, gentle, and thoughtful”: 67
Percentage who say this today: 51
8/90Percentage of veterinarians who say they have felt depressed after putting an animal to sleep: 67
5/94Percentage of Americans earning less than $15,000 per year who say that Americans are “materialistic”: 39
Percentage of Americans earning more than $50,000 per year who say this: 67
7/01Percentage of CPR attempts depicted on television that save the patient’s life: 67
Percentage in real life that do: 15
7/03Number of Grateful Dead concerts attended by columnist Ann Coulter: 67
10/06Percentage of volunteers in a four-year psychedelic-mushroom study who said they experienced “strong or extreme fear”: 31
Percentage who described the experience as “among the five most meaningful” in their lives: 67
Percentage of goods imported by the United States that are: 68
3/88Percentage of 1988 U.S. foreign economic aid that will go to Israel, Egypt, and the Philippines: 68
9/90Number of calls the Illinois Animal Poison Information Center received last year regarding pets swallowing marijuana: 68
Percentage change, since 1989, in foreign investment in U.S. stocks, bonds, and Treasury securities: -80
8/91Number of his first 77 decisions in which Supreme Court justice David Souter voted with Chief justice Rehnquist: 68
1/93Average number of new clerical workers hired each day by U.S. physicians to do paperwork: 68
6/97Percentage change since 1995 in federal spending on court-appointed attorneys for death-penalty cases: +68
11/98Average percentage by which an American woman’s out-of-pocket medical spending exceeds that of an American man: 68
6/99Percentage change since 1991 in the number of U.S. inmates who were illegal-drug users at the time of their arrest: +68
9/00Percentage of death-penalty trials since 1976 that appeals courts have found to include “serious, reversible error”: 68
5/02Number of Manhattan’s 123 Starbucks outlets that are within two blocks of another one: 68
3/04Percentage of Americans living below the poverty level who voted in the 2000 presidential election: 38
7/06Percentage of U.S. workers who say they are confident that they will be able to live comfortably after retirement: 68
Percentage who have saved less than $25,000 toward retirement: 53
7/07Percentage of every dollar spent at a locally owned Chicago store that is retained or recirculated in the city: 68
2/09Percentage of Bhutanese who are currently happy, according to the country’s new pilot survey: 68
1/85Percentage of Midwesterners who judge their chances of going to heaven as good to excellent: 69
7/85Percentage of health articles in Cosmopolitan rated inaccurate by the American Council on Science and Health: 53
Of health articles in Prevention: 69
11/86Percentage of the $2.1 billion federal antidrug budget that goes to law enforcement: 69
That goes to educational programs: 1
9/87Percentage of Americans who say that parents should not be allowed to choose the sex of their child: 69
1/90Average increase, since 1980, in the amount of garbage an American discards each year, in pounds: 69
2/90Percentage of Democratic congresswomen who are pro-choice: 63
Percentage of Republican congresswomen who are pro-choice: 69
4/91Number of walls the size of the Vietnam Memorial it would take to list all the Vietnamese who died in the war: 69
11/91Percentage of Lithuanians who say that their country’s health-care system should be run mainly by the government: 33
Percentage of Americans who say that their country’s health-care system should be: 69
10/92Number of New York Times articles published this year in which the name Willie Horton was mentioned: 69
Number of articles published during the 1988 presidential campaign in which Horton was mentioned: 33
Number of the 55 no longer playing who never hit another: 11
5/95Ratio of Pentagon spending in Newt Gingrich’s home county last year to average Pentagon spending per county: 69:1
2/97Percentage of public-high-school teachers who favor banning students from kissing and hugging on school grounds: 69
2/99Estimated number of people, per 10,000, who died of starvation in one Sudanese village over ten days last July: 69
9/99Percentage of Americans who say Hillary Clinton’s campaign will be more successful if her husband doesn’t try to help: 69
10/02Percentage of Americans who blame Bill Clinton’s”moral failings” for the current business scandals: 51
Percentage who blame President Bush’s “close ties to big corporations”: 46
1/03Percentage of the $1.1 trillion in Iraqi oil contracts that are held by French or Russian companies: 69
6/03Average quality-of-life rating researchers assign U.S. children with cancer, on a scale of 1 to 100: 69
7/84Percentage of American men earning less than $5,000 a year who say they cheat on their wives: 16
12/85Percentage of doctors in 1960 who said patients should be told the truth about their cancer: 18
Percentage who say that today: 70
10/95Percentage of Americans who believe their financial situation is “at least somewhat” reflective of “God’s regard” for them: 70
2/06Average performance rating, on a scale of 1 to 100, of top U.S. government managers who are political appointees: 62
Average for those who are career bureaucrats: 70
1/86Percentage of U.S. Steel’s revenues derived from businesses other than steel in 1981: 31
12/86Percentage of drug-related deaths caused by prescription drugs: 70
Who know how to jump-start a car: 70
12/88Percentage of presidential appointees who say they have trouble understanding financial disclosure forms: 70
12/89Percentage of Americans who have visited Washington, D.C.: 60
Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland or Disney World: 70
1/90Approval rating of Mikhail Gorbachev among residents of Orange County, California, in 1989: 70
2/90Percentage of Redbook readers who say they would rather have their genitals permanently numbed than go deaf: 70
10/91Cost of a one-hour lesson in “ring psychology” at Slammers Wrestling Gym in Sun Valley, California: $70
8/92Percentage of Americans who say that President Bush has “mainly just talked about protecting the environment”: 70
11/92Percentage of the air-pollution-control equipment sold in America that is produced by foreign-owned companies: 70
1/93Percentage of New Yorker articles since Tina Brown became editor whose first sentence includes a person’s name: 70
3/93Number of pages of the December/January issue of Paris Vogue that were guest-edited by the Dalai Lama: 70
10/93Percentage of all shares of Japanese corporate stock that is owned by other Japanese companies: 70
8/94Speed, in miles per hour, of pitches hurled at the heads of human cadavers last year in tests of a new, safer baseball: 70
10/94Percentage change since 1985 in membership of the Flat Earth Research Society: +70
3/96Percentage of congressional campaign contributions made last year by the top ten corporate PACs that went to Republicans: 70
Percentage that went to Republicans in 1994: 41
8/97Percentage of Americans who believe Richard Nixon did nothing “worse than what other presidents have done”: 70
7/98Percentage of the lab animals launched aboard NASA’s Neurolab last April that died in orbit, snails excluded: 70
3/99Estimated percentage of Indonesian businesses that are in bankruptcy: 70
9/99Pages of the British royal family’s medical records found in a folder lying by the side of a Scottish road last March: 70
3/00Ratio of major party presidential primaries to be held before April this year to those held before April in 1984: 3:1
8/01Percentage of Palestinians working in Israel last summer who lost their job after Israel’s blockade began in October: 70
6/02Percentage of new state laws involving biotechnology that increase penalties for destroying genetically modified crops: 70
12/02Percentage by which the Pentagon’s September order for sunblock exceeded its last largest such order: 70
5/03Pounds of steel discovered to have been eaten away from the head of an Ohio nuclear reactor in February 2002: 70
Thickness in inches of the warped stainless steel that remained to prevent the reactor from rupturing into the air: 3/8