Numbers

STEM CELLS

$7,500

Fee a U.S. company is charging individuals to harvest their stem cells--using an extraction process similar to that for donating blood--and freeze them for possible therapeutic use in the future

$63

Monthly fee to store the frozen stem cells

INTERNET

32%

Percentage of teenage Internet users surveyed who said they have been contacted by a stranger online

7%

Percentage of those teens who said the contact made them feel frightened or uncomfortable

FAST FOOD

8.2%

Increase in McDonald's global November sales, boosted in part by Europeans buying more hamburgers and chicken sandwiches

55

Number of consecutive months that sales have increased at the burger chain, the company's longest such streak in 27 years

WORKPLACE

85%

Percentage of businesses surveyed that said they are conducting some type of holiday celebration this year, a 9% drop from 2006 and the lowest percentage of office partying since the holiday season following Sept. 11, 2001

35%

Percentage of employers surveyed that have a holiday-bonus or -gift program