Numbers '93

Posted: December 26, 1993

$250

What not-attorney-general Zoe Baird paid her Peruvian nanny per week.

$58,333.33

What CBS pays David Letterman per show.

12 hours, 5 minutes

Duration of the July 2-3 doubleheader between the Phillies and San Diego (4:30 p.m. to 4:35 a.m.).

28,194,400

Approximate number of sandbags stacked to stem the Midwest flood.

$335 million

Jurassic Park's North American box-office gross.

222

Number of sit-ups Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Rolf Larsen told a grand jury he does routinely. ("222 . . . precisely?" asked a deputy attorney general. "Yeah," Larsen replied. "Is there a better number?")

2.3

Percentage of American men who have had a homosexual encounter, according to a study by the Battelle Human Affairs Research Center - down from the 10 percent Kinsey estimated in 1948.

16

Number of U.N. peace-keeping missions in force worldwide.

50,000

U.N. estimate of people killed in Burundi since an Oct. 21 coup. The United Nations declined to send peace-keepers.

2

Number of knees Wendell Davis blew out running on the Vet's artificial turf on Oct. 10. Davis, a wide receiver for the Chicago Bears, had not been touched by another player.

7

Number of football fields that would fit in the main hall of the new Convention Center.

8

Length, in inches, of Lorena Bobbitt's carving knife.

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