Numbers: Jan. 16, 2006

7 Days lost by the average U.S. mineworker in 2005 to injuries caused by mining accidents

17 Days lost by the average worker at West Virginia's Sago coal mine, where an explosion last week left 12 miners dead

600,000 Acres burned by the grass fires that have raged across Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico since Dec. 26. The fires have killed five people

55 Maximum years in prison faced by Justin Wilkerson, 18, if he is convicted of starting three fires in his Oklahoma hometown

$150,000 Price St. Louis' World Aquarium hopes to get for a two-headed albino rat snake named...

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