6/86Tons of hair Poland exports annually to West Germany in exchange for barber equipment: 100

Wall Street Journal

8/86Amount Nancy Reagan’s hairdresser charges for a haircut: $100

Robin Weir (Washington, D.C.)

5/88Percentage of 18- to 24-year aids who prefer President Reagan’s hairstyle to Carter’s and Ford’s: 47

J&B/Spy Poll (N.Y.C.)

8/88Amount spent this year on Chinese yak hair for British Army helmets: $300

British Ministry of Defence (London)

9/88Amount the Reverend Al Sharpton spends on hair care each year at PrimaDonna beauty salon in Brooklyn: $1,910

PrimaDonna Beauty Care Center (New York City)

2/89Number of the 23 cast members of the 1989 Chicago production of Hair who wear wigs: 20

Cheryl J. Lewin Associates (Chicago)

10/92Ratio of the number of times President Bush has had his hair cut this year to the number of times Bill Clinton has: 2:1

Pitts Hairstylists (Washington)/U.S. Male (Little Rock, Ark.),

10/93Average amount a U.S. funeral parlor charges for makeup and hairstyling, per customer: $92

National Funeral Directors Association (Milwaukee)

10/93Average life span of a hairdo on the head of Hillary Rodham Clinton since last November, in weeks: 8

Walter Scott, Parade Magazine (N.Y.C.)

2/93Price of having one’s hair set in dreadlocks at Slug hair salon in Tokyo: $1,215

Time (Tokyo)

3/93Weight, in pounds, of a hairball removed by maintenance workers from an Alexandria, Indiana, manhole last fall: 200

Storm Water Management Department (Alexandria, Ind.)

7/93Price of a “Hillary Wig,” with detachable hairband, from New York City’s Jacquelyn Wigs: $175

Jacquelyn Wigs (N.Y.C.)

5/94Number of patents for hair-replacement technologies on file at the U.S. Patent Office: 114

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

5/94Ratio of the average speed of growth of human hair to the average speed of growth of Kentucky bluegrass: 1:7

Mike Mahoney, American Hair Loss Council (Tyler, Tex.)/John Rogers III, Michigan State University (Lansing)

6/95Price of having one’s pubic hair cut and colored at Kaiserschnitt, a Berlin salon: $75

Kaiserschnitt (Berlin, Germany)

2/96Chances that an ad in the January issue of Esquire offers products or services relating to hair loss: 1 in 4

Harper’s research

4/96Pounds of yak hair used since 1982 in the Broadway production of Cats: 2,488

Viator Associates (N.Y.C.)

5/96Price of a ten-inch Chia Garcia, a bust of Jerry Garcia seeded to sprout green hair: $21.95

D.T.F. Co. (Raleigh, N.C.)

9/96Number of teachers for every hairstylist in Detroit: 0.8

Michigan Department of Commerce/Department of Education (Lansing)

1/97Percentage of Americans who are “more comfortable” with a First Lady who keeps the same hairstyle for an entire term: 17

NBC News Poll (N.Y.C.)

1/99Estimated number of people who watched a live Webcast of a hair transplant last fall: 8,000

America’s Health Network (Orlando, Fla.)

8/99Year in which George W. Bush first described juvenile “superpredators” as “fatherless, jobless, fearless, and godless”: 1996

George W. Bush Presidential Exploratory Committee (Austin, Tex.)/Office of George Bush (Kennebunkport, Me.)

    Year in which his father attended a CIA intelligence meeting wearing a red wig and false nose: 1975

George W. Bush Presidential Exploratory Committee (Austin, Tex.)/Office of George Bush (Kennebunkport, Me.)

9/99Number of U.S. high schools that have hired a Massachusetts firm to test students’ hair for evidence of drug use: 80

Psychemedics Corporation (Cambridge, Mass.)

9/99Length in minutes of Newt Gingrich’s monthly head massage at the Bubbles hair salon in Washington, D.C.: 5

Bubbles (Washington)

10/05Months that a Louisiana state judge was suspended for wearing an Afro wig and blackface to a Halloween party last year: 6

Louisiana Supreme Court (New Orleans)

1/08Percentage of U.S. women today who dye their hair: 55

Procter & Gamble (N.Y.C.)