Percentage change since [1990s|1999] in the number of [Bankruptcy|bankruptcies] of companies with liabilities of more than $1 billion
: +106Months after Element 118 was added to a textbook’s periodic table last year that its discovery was invalidated
: 4Rank of “serendipity” among [Language|words most often queried] on Cambridge Dictionaries Online last [October|October]
: 1Year in which the word was coined from the [Iran|Persian] fairy tale “The Three Princes of Serendip”
: 1754Percentage of U.S. [College|college] [Student|students] who say they intend to pursue a foreign language
: 57Percentage who are actually enrolled in a foreign-language course
: 8Number of nations that got less than [Media|ten minutes’ coverage] on [Television|U.S. network evening news] in the [1990s|1990s]
: 88Ratio of [Minutes|minutes] devoted to [Afghanistan|Afghanistan] in the [1990s|1990s] to those devoted to it in three weeks last [Fall|fall]
: 1:1Minimum number of [SaudiArabia|Saudis] who have been trained in [AlQaeda|Al Qaeda] camps
: 5,000Ratio of the number of [Army|U.S. soldiers] [Death|killed] by hostile fire since [1990s|1990] to the number who have committed [Suicide|suicide]
: 1:5Last day on which a total tally of those [Freedom|detained] in U.S. [Terrorism|terrorism] investigations was [Justice|released] to the public
: 11/2Amount of [Finance|debt] carried by [NewYorkCity|New York City’s] government, per resident, before [September11|September 11]
: $5,066Ratio of natural disasters worldwide necessitating help from outside the immediate region in the [1990s|1990s] to those in the [1970s|1970s]
: 2:1Pounds of dust blown into the air each year worldwide, per capita
: 769Number of [Days|days] that E. coli bacteria can survive on polyurethane plastic
: 15Last year for which [GAO|General Accounting Office] data on U.S. baggage screeners was not classified as “sensitive”
: 1987Chance that a potentially dangerous item was missed by screeners that year, according to the [GAO|GAO]
: 1 in 5Minimum number of [Winter|Winter] [Olympics|Olympics] volunteers who were rejected last [Fall|fall] after a [Crime|criminal] background check
: 273Number of cases of Polygamy Porter [Business|sold] by a [Utah|Utah] [Beer|brewery] since [October|October]
: 1,000Percentage of Americans [Ignorance|who believe] that the tenets of [Superstition|astrology] “probably” or “definitely” have some [Science|scientific] truth
: 48Last year in which Americans’ confidence in the [FederalGovernment|federal government] “to do what is right” was as high as it is today
: 1968Number of the ten amendments in the [BillofRights|Bill of Rights] that are violated by the [HomelandSecurity|USA PATRIOT Act], according to the [ACLU|ACLU]
: 5Number of U.S. [College|colleges] and universities that were asked by law enforcement to release [Student|student] information last [Fall|fall]
: 220Percentage that released the [Student|students’] information without informing them
: 90Amount the [Pentagon|Pentagon] paid a private company last [Fall|fall] for exclusive access to [Technology|satellite] pictures of [Afghanistan|Afghanistan]
: $3,800,000Estimated number of U.S. sorties flown in [Iraq|Iraqi] no-fly zones last year
: 10,000Gallons of concentrated [Anthrax|anthrax] that [Iraq|Iraq] has admitted to producing as a biological [Weapons|weapon]
: 2,245Number of biological materials with military potential sent to [Iraq|Iraq] by the U.S. [CDC|Centers for Disease Control] in the [1980s|1980s]
: 14Minimum number of the ten biological materials suspected in [Iraq|Iraqi] warfare research that were supplied by U.S. firms
: 9Number of mock biological attacks with live bacteria carried out domestically by the [Army|U.S. Army] between [1940s|1949] and [1960s|1969]
: 199Year in which [Army|the Army] released bacteria into [NewYorkCity|New York City’s] [Transportation|subway] system
: 1966Percentage of [Navy|Navy] recruits from the [NewYorkCity|New York City] area last year who were green-card holders
: 40Change since 2000 in the percentage of [LatinAmerica|Latin Americans] who say they prefer [Democracy|democracy] to other forms of government
: ???12Change since then in the percentage who feel “confident” in the [CatholicFaith|Catholic] Church
: ???5Percentage of U.S. [Religion|Jews] who rank the separation of church and state among the top reasons for the country’s success
: 86[Religion|] Percentage of the total U.S. population who believe this
: 61Percentage of Americans [Ignorance|who believe] that the theory of human [Evolution|evolution] is “probably” or “definitely” not true
: 47Number of years after being executed as [Witch|witches] that six [Massachusetts|Massachusetts] [Women|women] were exonerated last [Fall|fall]
: 309Number of [Obesity|Pop-Tarts] dropped on [Afghanistan|Afghanistan] as part of U.S. airborne [Food|food] aid in the first month of bombing
: 2,400,000Number of knee bends that a 59-year-old [Ukraine|Ukrainian] [Women|woman] performed last [Fall|fall] to protest U.S. attacks on [Afghanistan|Afghanistan]
: 1,101