Amount of money FEMA is paying Carnival Cruise Lines over six months for the use of three passenger ships to temporarily house Hurricane Katrina evacuees and relief workers along the Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana Gulf Coast.
7,000
Combined number of beds available on all three ships.
$33,714.28
Amount of money FEMA will pay Carnival Cruise Lines per bed for the entire six months.
$5,619.05
Amount of money FEMA will pay Carnival Cruise Lines per bed each month.
Number of people, most of them Montana residents, who have applied for a license to hunt Bison who commonly leave Yellowstone National Park and enter southern Montana, particularly in the winter, to forage.
24
Number of licenses available.
4,900
Estimated Bison population--currently the highest number ever documented--in Yellowstone National Park.
Average amount of sugar the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says U.S. perschoolers consume each year, expressed as a percentage of body weight.
Number of U.S. public school districts that have adopted a class in which the Bible is mandated a primary textbook.
Amount of money (in US dollars) that the Catholic Church spent in Britain this summer advertising for new priests on bar coasters.
Estimated amount of money that illegal immigrants pay into Social Security each year.
Percentage of U.S. citizens who say driving a fuel-efficient car is an act of patriotism.
Number of people who live alone--sans a roommate--in Manhattan.
Percentage of U.S. computer users who say they carry their laptop computers while on vacation.
Tons of CO2 emissions that would be replaced each year by a proposed windmill project on New York's Long Island.
210,000
Tons of CO2 emissions produced by a single commercial airplane making a round-trip trans-Atlantic flight.
Annual salary of Bowater, Inc. Chairman and CEO Arnold Nemirow (Bowater is a leading producer of newsprint and coated mechanical papers).
$18,000.00
Amount of money Bowater, Inc. paid Mr. Nemirow in 2004, in addition to his annual salary, for unused vacation time.
Amount of salary and bonus Kerr-McGee's CEO and Chairman Luke Corbet earned in 2004.
$83,796.48
Amount of money Kerr-McGee paid Mr. Corbet in 2004 as a stipend in order to facilitate his involvement in community activities (in other words, they paid the guy $83k to do volunteer work).
Number of descendents a pair of rats can produce in a single year.
Number of homes in Beach Haven, N.J., not occupied by an owner as his or her primary residence.
$687,500.00
Median price of each house.
Number of crack dealers killed while doing their job.
1 in 20
Number of inmates killed while serving time on Texas' death row.
Percent of the world's cell phone users who report that they have stopped in the middle of a sex act to answer a ringing wireless device.
Number of words that the National Football League will not allow you to put on the back of a personalized 'Authentic' jersey because each has been deemed too obscene.
$300.00
The obscene amount of money the NFL charges for personalizing one of their 'Authentic' jerseys.
Amount American Airlines estimates it will save starting 2/15/05 when it removes pillows from all of its US flights.
$190,000,000
Amount Marriott International is spending in 2005 to replace 628,000 beds in its 2,400 hotels with plusher mattresses and 300-thread-count sheets.
Calories in one Hardee's Monster Thickburger.
1,700
Maximum number of calories you'd need to consume per day to maintain a weight of 170 lbs.
Percentage of airplanes flying domestic routes in the US found to have fecal coliform bacteria in their drinking water.
8
Recommended number of ounces of water airline flyers should rink every hour while on an airplane.
Pounds of avocados Americans ate during the 2004 Super Bowl.
Total number of pages in the September 2004 issue of Vogue magazine.
648
Number of pages devoted to paid advertising.
Average annual wage for Pennsylvania Turnpike workers (mostly toll booth operators). These workers are currently on strike demanding more pay and benefits.
$38,497
Average annual wage for West Virginia school teachers in 2002-2003.
Amount the Shell oil company spent to install the first hydrogen pump at a U.S. gas station in Washington, D.C.
6
Number of cars in use, as of November 2004, in the D.C. area powered by hydrogen fuel cells.
Amount a man in China paid for a telephone number containing a string of the number 3 (which the Chinese consider a lucky number).
Number of days that the U.S. House of Representatives met in 2004, the lowest number in decades.
2.5
Percent increase of a 'cost of living' raise members of Congress voted for themselves in September of 2004.
$4,000
Dollar amount of that raise.
$162,000
Annual salary for each member of the U.S. House of Representatives that met for 102 days in 2004.