Monday, Apr. 17, 2000
Numbers
By Val Castronovo, Matthew Cooper, Lina Lofaro, Desa Philadelphia, Hope Reeves, Elizabeth Rudulph, Alain Sanders and Josh Tyrangiel
574.57 Decline of the NASDAQ Composite Index at 1:18 p.m. on April 4
$1.19 trillion Paper losses investors would have incurred had the markets not rebounded
8 Members of the Supremes since the group's 1961 debut
0 Number of times the three women touring this summer as the Supremes--Diana Ross, Scherrie Payne and Lynda Laurence--have sung together before this year
100 million Number of Boy Scouts enrolled nationwide since the group's founding in 1910; the 100-millionth scout--12-year-old Mario Castro--was initiated last week
43 million Number of people McDonald's serves every day, many of them 12-year-olds
50,000 Estimated number of women brought to the U.S. each year who end up working in forced servitude
250 Criminal cases the Justice Department has prosecuted over the past two years involving such victims
Sources: Wall Street Journal, AP, Boy Scouts of America, McDonald's, New York Times