Percentage of federal employees in the U.S. who are eligible to retire within the next five years.
Increase in U.S. sales of Frank's Sauerkraut since researchers reported pickled cabbage helps ward off bird flu.
Percentage of U.S. adults who admit to stealing candy from their kids' Halloween bags.
Number of chickens successfully trained by scientists to choose between photos of human faces by pecking.
98
Percentage of college students who select as ìmost desirableî the same face chosen by the chickens.
Amount of money the U.S. government spent in 2004 on mosquito nets to fight malaria in Africa.
$7,600,000.00
Amount of money the U.S. government paid a consulting firm to conduct ìsocial marketingî of those same mosquito nets.
Number of months of vacation that President George W. Bush has taken over the last five years.
The percentage by which the average amount of anesthetic required by redheads exceeds the average for everyone else
Total U.S. spending in 2004 on poppy eradication and other antidrug efforts in Afghanistan.
$600,000,000.00
Estimated amount it would have cost the U.S. to purchase the countryís entire 2004 poppy crop.
Projected cost of disability payments to U.S. military veterans who served in Iraq by 2050.
Total number of students in California who play high school football.
253
Number of girls playing high school football in California..
3
Number of touchdowns one of those girls (15-year-old Miranda McOsker) threw in a football game to help her suburban Los Angeles high school (Bishop Montgomery) defeat rival Ribet Academy 55-14.
0
Number of times Miranda's father--John McOsker, who also played quarterback for Bishop Montgomery--threw 3 touchdowns in a game during his entire football career.