PHONE REPAIR
36.5
Average number of hours that Verizon residential-telephone customers spent waiting for repairs last year. In Maryland, the state with the longest wait time, the repair lag averaged 56.1 hr.
$17.5 million
Cost of a proposed state-record fine in Virginia against Verizon for poor service during the first five months of 2006. The company failed to fix approximately 170,000 phone outages within 48 hr., as required
OLDEST ANIMALS
405
Estimated age, in years, of a quahog clam found off the coast of Iceland. It is the longest-lived animal on record, breaking the record previously held by a 374-year-old clam
122
Age,...