Numbers

MEDIA

Number of black men who have appeared on the cover of Men's Vogue since it launched in 2005 (Tiger Woods, Barack Obama, Denzel Washington and Will Smith)

Number of black women who have appeared on Vogue's cover since the magazine was founded in 1892

INTERNET USE

43%

Percentage of teens who say they use instant-messaging (IMs) to express something they wouldn't say in person

22%

Percentage of teens who say they use IMs to ask people out or to accept dates; 13% say they use them to break up

RAIL STRIKE

$29 million

Estimated cost per day to France's rail authority of the transit union's strike over President Nicolas Sarkozy's pension-reform plans

67%

Decrease in trains running between Parisand its suburbs. More than half the nation's 700 high-speed TGVs have been suspended

CHRISTIANITY

213

Number of women priests ordained by the Church of England last year. Women outnumbered men--210 were ordained in 2006--for the first time since the church began ordaining women in 1994

7,001

Number of men in the Anglican priesthood, compared with 1,495 women

Sources: Portfolio (2); AP (2); CNN (2); AP (2)