Numbers: Oct. 11, 1999

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$72,826 Average campaign cash Bill Bradley is raising per day, based on the past three months

$70,652 Cash Al Gore raised per day in the past three months

$206,522 How much George W. Bush is raising per day

60,000 Number of extra copies of Jose Saramago's novel Blindness printed after he won the Nobel for Literature last year, up from 15,000

1,007,000 Number of extra copies of Janet Fitch's White Oleander printed after it was selected for Oprah's book club, up from 13,000

60 Miles off course NASA's lost Mars orbiter went when English measurements were erroneously read as metric

35 Pounds of uranium believed to have been added to a tank of nitric acid--seven times the safety limit--causing a nuclear accident in Japan

61 Percentage of Americans who say their decision-making ability suffers after a bad night's sleep

Sources: Federal Election Commission, Time reporting, A.P., National Sleep Foundation