Numbers

By Harriet Barovick, Val Castronovo, Matthew Cooper, Mitch Frank, Daniel Levy, Michele Orecklin, Alice Park, Desa Philadelphia, Hope Reeves and Owen Thomas

$35.5 million Amount Richard Nixon's estate says the late President's private papers--including 40 million pages of text and 3,700 hours of tapes--are worth

$2.2 million Amount the government says it will pay for the collection--or less than 6[cents] a page

6 months Time the two sides have spent in court arguing the difference

$615,000 Property damage caused by bears in Yosemite National Park in 1998

$208,000 Damage done in 1999, after rangers instituted a bear-control program that focused on changing human, not ursine, behavior

$1.5 million Amount the nonprofit Yosemite Fund donated to bankroll the program

$15,000 Amount a Florida restaurateur agreed to pay an African-American couple for arbitrarily adding a 15% gratuity to their bill and claiming that "black people don't tip well"

53% Percentage of African Americans who have experienced some form of racial discrimination

Sources: Reuters, Associated Press, Washington Post, TIME/CNN poll