8/03Number of candy-bar wrappers that Cadbury’s new anti-obesity campaign offers to exchange for a basketball: 90

Cadbury (Bournville, U.K.)

    Minimum hours of basketball required for an 85-pound child to burn off the calories from that many candy bars: 100

Samantha Heller, New York University Medical Center (N.Y.C.)

7/99Hours after NATO bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade last May that the U.S. apologized to China: 23

Harper’s research

    Number of days before China’s state-run media printed the U.S. apology: 2

U.S. Department of State

12/91Price of a single-serving pizza at Beijing’s Pizza Hut, expressed as a portion of the average worker’s weekly salary: 1/5

Pizza Hut (Wichita, Kans.)/Chinese Consulate (N.Y.C.)

6/85Quarts of ice cream the average Southerner eats each year: 12

International Association of Ice Cream Manufacturers (Washington, D.C.)

    The average New Englander: 23

International Association of Ice Cream Manufacturers (Washington, D.C.)

11/86Portion of ice cream sold in 1976 that was vanilla: 1/2

International Association of Ice Cream Manufacturers (Washington, D.C)

    Today: 1/3

International Association of Ice Cream Manufacturers (Washington, D.C)