IRAQ
46.9%
Percentage of press coverage of Iraq during the first 10 months of 2007 that dealt with acts of violence
4.6%
Percentage of press coverage of Iraq that dealt with "optimistic themes" in those months, according to a Pew Research Center study
SUBSIDIES
$88
Cost of a Montana flight from Lewiston to Billings and back on Big Sky Airlines
$1,343
Federal subsidy paid to the airline for each Lewiston-Billings round trip. The route, which averaged two passengers a day in 2006, is among those covered by a $110 million small-airports subsidy passed by Congress for 2008
TRAVEL
18.4 million
Number...
