Numbers: Jun. 4, 2001

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100 Million Americans consult the Internet for health information

70 Percentage who say the information they find influences treatment decisions

34 Percentage of American parents who do not know all three pieces of the following information about their children: height, weight and eye color

358,600 Children are abducted each year, 4,600 of them by nonfamily members

80 Number of points potentially lost on a student's GMAT last year because of an error by the Educational Testing Service

970 Number of individual scores affected by the mistake

21 Percentage of vacationers who will take weekend trips instead of longer summer vacations

28 Percentage who attribute shorter trips to economic slowdown

43 Percentage who say they don't have time to get away this summer

Sources: California HealthCare Foundation; National Center for Missing and Exploited Children; Progressive.com New York Times