Numbers

  • 16.9 Percentage of annual base salaries that will be lost by Major League Baseball players if they walk out on Aug. 30 and don't return for the rest of the season

    232 Number of days of the last baseball strike, in 1994-95

    $1 trillion Estimated amount sought in a lawsuit filed against Saudi officials and others by families of Sept. 11 victims

    $2.7 billion Amount offered by the Libyan government earlier this year in a settlement of a lawsuit filed by the families of victims of Pan Am Flight 103

    62 Number of kidnapping cases opened by the FBI in the first eight months of this year

    134 Number of kidnapping cases opened by the FBI in 1999

    8 Percentage of Americans who admit to having impersonated Elvis Presley, at least in the mirror

    7 Percentage of Americans who think Elvis may still be alive

    Sources: CNN; AP; Harris Poll; CBS; USA Today