Numbers: Oct. 17, 2005

17,074

Bosnian Serbs named as participants in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of some 8,000 Muslim men and boys

11

Months since the Bosnian Serb government acknowledged responsibility for the massacre before providing those names

47

Passengers on a tour boat that capsized last week on a placid Lake George in New York, 20 of whom drowned

48

Passengers the boat was certified to carry; new tests show its sister ship became unstable with the equivalent of 10 passengers

151

Women who set a new record for formation skydiving, during a fund raiser for breast-cancer research

18

Attempts they made before breaking the record

23

Weight, in pounds, of The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, the comic strip's $150 anthology

20

Weight, in pounds, of Gary Larson's $135 The Complete Far Side, the heaviest and most expensive book to make the New York Times best-seller list so far

Sources: New York Times (4); jumpforthecause.com (2); USA Today; Publisher's Weekly

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