Sunday, Jun. 04, 2006
Numbers
19.2 million Estimated number of U.S. adults who have diabetes--9.3% of the population
1/3 Proportion of adult Americans with diabetes who don't know they have the disease
$38 million Amount Henry Paulson, President Bush's nominee for Treasury Secretary, earned in 2005 as chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs
$175,700 Annual salary he would earn as Treasury Secretary
75 Number of Guantanamo Bay detainees who last week joined a hunger strike led by three inmates who have been force-fed since last August
9 Number of consecutive meals a detainee must intentionally miss to be deemed a hunger striker
3 million Varieties of seed--including rice, barley and fruit-bearing plants--that Norway plans to freeze in a Noah's Ark of crops to prevent their extinction in any future global cataclysm
-40'0F Temperature at which the seeds will be kept
28% Percentage of Americans polled who believe the Bible is literally true, down from 38% in 1976
19% Percentage who view the Bible as an "ancient book of fables," up from 13%
Sources: USA Today (2); CNNMoney (2); New York Times (4); Gallup Poll (2)