Numbers: Aug. 2, 2004

$32 billion Amount Microsoft plans to pay out this year in a one-time dividend for shareholders

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

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

21% Amount Fox's prime-time ratings have dropped this summer from last

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

$12.1 million Amount the Kerry campaign raised online in June, compared with $1.1 million for Bush's...

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