Numbers

Sunday, July 25, 2004
    • $32 billion
    Amount Microsoft plans to pay out this year in a one-time dividend for shareholders

    $32 billion $3.3 billion}]
    Amount Bill Gates will receive, all of which he has pledged to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

    $32 billion 5}]
    Number of new series Fox has introduced this summer, the most of any network, in an effort to avoid reruns

    $32 billion 21%}]
    Amount Fox's prime-time ratings have dropped this summer from last

    $32 billion 14.9 million}]
    Average audience for CBS's reruns of CSI, the highest-rated network series this summer

    $32 billion $12.1 million}]
    Amount the Kerry campaign raised online in June, compared with $1.1 million for Bush's online campaign

    $32 billion $228 million}]
    Total amount the Bush campaign has raised as of June 30, compared with Kerry's $185 million

    $32 billion 6%}]
    Percentage of France's population that is Muslim

    $32 billion 50%}]
    Percentage of France's prison population that is Muslim

    Sources: N.Y. Times (2); Entertainment Weekly; N.Y. Times (2); Los Angeles Times (2); N.Y. Times; Financial Times}]