Numbers: Oct. 3, 2005
$167 million Amount Tyco's ex-CEO Dennis Kozlowski was ordered last week to pay in restitution and fines for looting $150 million from the company
$1.05 Amount he can earn each day in prison; he was sentenced to 81/3 to 25 years
83 Percentage of 6,336 individuals observed in four U.S. cities who washed their hands after using public rest rooms
90 Percentage of women who washed, compared with 75% of men
47 Percent increase in monthly stipends, to $916, the French government will give to any parent who takes a one-year unpaid leave from work after the birth of his or her third child
1.9 Average number of children per woman in France, whose fertility rate must rise to 2.07 to prevent population decline
$673,000 Amount two former telemarketers were fined for charging people to join the national do-not-call registry, which is free
12,000 Number of people who paid $30 to $100 to sign up
Sources: New York Times; USA Today; AP (4); Washington Post (2)
Most Popular »
- Prosecuting Mohammed: Harder Than You Think
- Retailers Gear up for Black Friday
- Now It's Official: There Is Water on the Moon
- 2012: End-of-World Disaster Porn
- Does Mexico City Need a Red-Light District?
- Iraq's Unspeakable Crime: Mothers Pimping Daughters
- Did a Time-Traveling Bird Sabotage the Collider?
- Why We Shouldn't Give Christmas Gifts
- The Meaning and Mythos of Manny Pacquiao
- How a Bank Robber Became an Antihero in France
- In a Malaria Hot Spot, Resistance to a Key Drug
- Did a Time-Traveling Bird Sabotage the Collider?
- Why We Shouldn't Give Christmas Gifts
- Now It's Official: There Is Water on the Moon
- Iraq's Unspeakable Crime: Mothers Pimping Daughters
- Prosecuting Mohammed: Harder Than You Think
- Five Things the U.S. Can Learn from China
- The Meaning and Mythos of Manny Pacquiao
- London Museum Asks Public What to Pitch
- Jazz Musician Wynton Marsalis







RSS