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.)

2/09Number of times in 2008 that the S&P 500 closed up or down 5 percent in a single day: 17

The Vanguard Group (Malvern, Pa.)

    Number of times between 1956 and 2007 it did this: 17

The Vanguard Group (Malvern, Pa.)