Numbers: Feb. 26, 2007

1,594% Estimated annual inflation rate in trouble-racked Zimbabwe in January--the highest in the world

4,000% Inflation rate predicted by the International Monetary Fund for Zimbabwe by year's end if prices continue to soar and the government doesn't devalue the currency

$25 million Prize that Virgin Group chairman Richard Branson will pay the first scientist who comes up with a system for extracting greenhouse gases from the atmosphere

$975,000 Fine that companies would pay for causing environmental disasters, under a new law proposed in the European Parliament

3 The number of half-hour naps a person should take at work each week...

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