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MEDIA

4

Number of black men who have appeared on the cover of Men's Vogue since it launched in 2005 (Tiger Woods, Barack Obama, Denzel Washington and Will Smith)

3

Number of black women who have appeared on Vogue's cover since the magazine was founded in 1892

INTERNET USE

43%

Percentage of teens who say they use instant-messaging (IMs) to express something they wouldn't say in person

22%

Percentage of teens who say they use IMs to ask people out or to accept dates; 13% say they use them to break up

RAIL STRIKE

$29 million

Estimated cost per day to France's rail authority of the transit union's strike over President Nicolas Sarkozy's pension-reform plans

67%

Decrease in trains running between Parisand its suburbs. More than half the nation's 700 high-speed TGVs have been suspended

CHRISTIANITY

213

Number of women priests ordained by the Church of England last year. Women outnumbered men--210 were ordained in 2006--for the first time since the church began ordaining women in 1994

7,001

Number of men in the Anglican priesthood, compared with 1,495 women

Sources: Portfolio (2); AP (2); CNN (2); AP (2)