7/95Chances that an act of terrorism committed worldwide in the last year killed an American: 1 in 80
7/95Chances that a fatal act of terrorism committed in the United States since 1982 was attributed to a domestic group: 2 in 3
7/95Percentage of Americans who believe citizens do not have the right to buy and store “large quantities of weapons”: 71
Percentage who say armed, antigovernment groups should be infiltrated “even if it infringes on their constitutional rights”: 72
7/95Number of suburban murder-for-hire cases filed with U.S. law enforcement agencies since 1988: 1,053
7/95Estimated property damage caused in a New York suburb last spring by a man firing a slingshot from his Lincoln: $7,000
7/95Ratio of children’s emergency-room visits for injuries related to fireworks last year to those related to “desk supplies”: 1:5
7/95Estimated number of concurrent “killer bee” stings that a healthy adult human can survive: 1,300
7/95Number of years Jeanne Louise Calment, France’s oldest woman, smoked cigarettes before she quit in 1993: 98
7/95Chances that a minimum-wage earner is over the age of nineteen: 2 in 3
7/95Percentage of men between twenty-five and thirty-four who earn enough to keep a family of four from poverty: 66
Percentage change since last year in the number of Americans who say they would require $1 million to do so: +75
7/95Percentage change in the number of rural Americans living in mobile homes between 1980 and 1990: +52
Chances today: 1 in 18
7/95Percentage change since 1970 in the number of American children born to one white and one non-white parent: +253
7/95Portion of the U.S. population whose ancestors came through Ellis Island: 2/5
7/95Number of the world’s twenty largest banks that are American, Chinese, or Japanese, respectively: 0,1,11
7/95Maximum price of a three-year license to sell hot dogs outside New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art: $900,600
7/95Gallons of onion ice cream sold last summer at Vidalia restaurant in Washington, D.C.: 10
7/95Number of people who applied for thirty-six tasting positions at an Oakland ice cream company last winter: 10,000
7/95Number of people who developed food poisoning after attending a Connecticut Food Association reception last spring: 57
7/95Weight, in pounds, of an apple pie baked by students at Spokane Community College last July: 33,500
7/95Date on which the state of Mississippi ratified the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, abolishing slavery: 3/21/95
7/95Number of pollsters retained for use by President Clinton: 3