Numbers: Apr. 25, 2005

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10,340 Number of fugitives arrested earlier this month in a week-long nationwide Justice Department operation, the largest single dragnet ever

959 Number of federal, state and local law-enforcement agencies involved in the roundup

107 Number of high school students who earned a top score of 2400 on the new SAT last month, out of some 300,000 who took the test, which has been revamped to include an essay question

939 Number of students who got a top score of 1600 on the old test in 2004, out of 1.4 million who took it

310,000 Estimated number of people whose personal information was stolen from LexisNexis databases, about 10 times as many as the company originally reported last month

180,000 Number of people HSBC bank notified last week that their credit-card data may have been stolen after shopping with a MasterCard at Polo Ralph Lauren

14% Proportion of mobile-phone users worldwide who said in a survey that they have interrupted sex to take a call

52% Proportion of respondents who said they have used their cell phone to flirt

Sources: Washington Post; New York Times; AP (2); Wall Street Journal (2); AdAge (2)