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Source: Harper's Magazine

Minimum number of properties the U.S. government was forced to buy as part of the savings and loans bailout: 43,640

Percentage of Americans who say they live “paycheck to paycheck”: 47

Number of preteen 'secret agents' in the Girls' Intelligence Agency, a market research firm: 16,000

Percentage of Fortune 500 companies that own a Web address in which their name is followed by “sucks.com”: 26

Amount a Chinese investor paid in June last year to have lunch with Warren Buffett: $2,110,000

Number of appearances that a Thai prime minister made last year as a TV chef: 4

Year in which Cuba’s ban on toasters will be lifted: 2010

Year by which computer server farms worldwide are projected to produce more greenhouse gases than air travel: 2020

Year by which New Orleans is expected to be rebuilt, at the current pace: 2028

Number of years that Google’s CEO says it will take the company to achieve its goals: 300

Estimated value of U.S. economic growth lost due to the global credit crisis : $2,000,000,000,000

Estimated number of votes that Oprah Winfrey’s endorsement swung to Barack Obama’s primary campaign : 1,015,559