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