Monday, Apr. 12, 1999
Numbers
By By Harriet Barovick, Tam Gray, Sandra Jamison, Daniel Levy, Lina Lofaro, David Spitz, Flora Tartakovsky and Chris Taylor
$42 million Cost of an F-117A Stealth Fighter downed over Serbian airspace
13 Number of additional F-117A Stealth Fighters the Pentagon announced are being sent to the region
53% Portion of Americans who support the air strikes in Yugoslavia
74% Portion of Americans who backed the U.S. air strikes against Iraq last December
19.3% Amount of "critical" federal computer systems that were declared Y2K-bug free in August 1997
79% Amount of "critical" systems that are currently declared to be Y2K-bug free
3,323 Systems that have disappeared from the government's "critical" list in that time
20% Portion of Canada that became a new territory, Nunavut
12 Miles of highway stretching across all of Nunavut
Sources: Washington Post; USA Today; General Accounting Office; Reuters