Numbers: Feb. 28, 2000

$42 million Total cost of Bob Dole's failed 1996 campaign for the presidency

$50 million Amount spent through Jan. 31 by presidential hopeful George W. Bush

10 million Viewers for the first half-hour of Fox's Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire? last week

22.8 million Viewers who watched the last half-hour, giving Fox a rare ratings victory

3 million Viewers who watched the G.O.P. debate aired at the same time

1.5 Number of trees per person in the U.S. that are destroyed every year to create paper for junk mail

44% Proportion of junk mail that is thrown in the trash...

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