Numbers

$75,000 Cost to Santa Barbara County of providing staff, security, sanitation and electricity for Michael Jackson's arraignment on child-molestation charges last Friday

$250
Daily rate charged to the media for a parking space outside the courthouse, to help defray the costs

350,000 Number of cases of polio worldwide in 1988

667 Number of cases of polio in 2003

250 million Number of children who must be vaccinated three times this year before the disease can be eradicated in the six countries where it still occurs

$117 billion Cost to the U.S. economy every year from injuries caused by car wrecks, debilitating falls and other accidents, accounting for 10% of all medical spending

1 Rank of injuries as the cause of death for Americans ages 35 and under

44.7 million Number of people who needed treatment for an injury in 2000

Sources: Santa Barbara News-Press; National Public Radio; Atlanta Journal-Constitution; Reuters