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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