"No son todos los que están, ni están todos los que son." —Tio Genaro

N U M B E R S

4,400,000,000,000 - $ combined wealth of the world’s 1,125 billionaires in 2008.

97,500,000 - million approximate number of American households that receive CNN, a reach surpassed only by Discovery, TNT, and ESPN.

735,000 - number of telephone numbers registered with the Do-Not-Call list on the day it went into effect.

10,000 - $ reward offered for Jesse James "dead or alive," for which a fellow gang member shot him dead at James’s home in Saint Joseph, Missouri, in 1882.

1,933 - length in miles of the border between the United States and Mexico.

824 - estimated 2008 population of Vatican City.

25 - length, in feet, of the tether attaching Edward H. White II to the Gemini spacecraft.

5 - fingers on one's hand.

NUMBERS

$310 million
First-day sales of Grand Theft Auto IV. Guinness World Records named the video game's launch the most profitable entertainment release of all time

$220 million
Previous one-day sales record, set by the book Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

$400 billion
Damages sought in a U.S. class action against more than 50 companies that did business in South Africa during the apartheid era

4
Number of Supreme Court Justices who had conflicts of interest in the case's appeal, requiring the court to affirm a lower-court ruling allowing the suit to move forward

10,000
Number of people who speak Ojibwa, an ancient Native American language used in more than 200 communities across the Great Lakes region

80%
Percentage of Ojibwa speakers older than 60. Researchers are working to preserve the language before it becomes extinct

15,000
Number of poultry killed by South Korean officials in Seoul over a 24-hour period to curb the spread of a new bird-flu outbreak

241
Number of people who have died of bird flu since 2003, according to the World Health Organization. Most human cases have been linked to infected poultry

NUMBERS

22,997 and 42,019
Dead and missing from devastating Cyclone Nargis in Burma's  cyclone last week.

30 tons
Weight of shipment of supplies, such as blankets, tents and water purification kits, to Rangoon.

95,000
High-energy bars shipped to feed homeless and hungry affectedn people.

20,000
Body bags sent the Red Cross body bags  sent so volunteers can start collecting bodies.

1.5 million
People affected and made homeless in wait of food, shelter and medicines.

100,000
United States Embassy in Rangoon, said this number of dead could eventually increase because of illnesses.

500%
Increase on the price of water charged by vulture merchans takeung advantage of the situation.

N U M B E R S
1%
Percentage of refugees living in Greece who have been granted asylum. The country has been criticized by the U.N. for failing to provide interpreters and legal aid for the remaining 99%

50%
Percentage of refugees living in Sweden who have been granted asylum, the highest rate in Europe

220 million
Number of Chinese who were using the Internet as of February. For the first time, China's total surpassed the U.S.'s, which in 2007 was 216 million

17%
Percentage of people in China who use the Internet, compared with 71% in the U.S.

1,435
Number of calories in a McDonald's Big Mac meal, which includes a burger, fries and soda

130,000
Number of New Yorkers, according to the state health department, who would avoid obesity if chains like McDonald's published calorie counts on their menus, as required by a recently upheld New York City law

43
Number of U.S. states that have increased tobacco taxes since 2002; state tobacco taxes generated $14.5 billion in revenue last year

7¢
The country's lowest cigarette tax, imposed by South Carolina, whose Republicans are lobbying to increase it by 50¢ a pack

M O R E  N U M B E R S
7 -- Number of extra hours of housework per week performed by married women in the U.S., compared with single women. According to a new study, the overall amount of housework done by women dropped 35% between 1976 and 2005

1 -- Number of extra hours of housework per week that single men do, compared with married men

$79 -- Average cost of a pair of Crocs footwear in Israel

$3.60 -- Cost of a pair of pirated, Chinese-made Crocs being sold to Palestinians

100 years -- Age of the world's first formal master's of business administration program. Harvard started offering its first M.B.A. courses in 1908

500,000 -- Expected number of M.B.A. graduates globally in 2008. In China, the number has gone from zero to 30,000 in the past decade

GIMME MO' NUMBERS
400,000,000
- $ estimated property damage (in 1906 dollars) as a result of the San Francisco earthquake and fire.

300,000
 - number of people who attended the funeral of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

30,100
 - approximate number of known species of fish.

3,105
 - number of people who lived in the Falkland Islands in 2007.

7:22 a.m.
 - time of Abraham Lincoln's death, the day after he was shot.

101
 - length (in miles) of the Suez Canal.

19
 - age of Joan of Arc at the time of her death.

8
 - Grammys won by Luther Vandross; four were in 2003.

.349
 - Jackie Robinson's batting average in his last year with the Montreal Royals.