Monday, Sep. 20, 1999
Numbers
By Melissa August, Harriet Barovick, Autumn De Leon, Andrew Goldstein, Tam Gray, Daniel Levy, Michele Orecklin, James Poniewozik and Desa Philadelphia
124,000 Number of ethnic Albanians who fled Kosovo before the NATO campaign
200,000 Estimated number of East Timorese driven from their homes since voting for independence from Indonesia
$2,800 Daily price at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City for a "special suite" furnished with English and Italian mahogany antiques
$299 Price of a night in a deluxe room at the nearby Waldorf-Astoria
11 million Number of American children without health insurance
9% Average investment gain in the past six months of stocks picked by dart throws at the Wall Street Journal
12.9% Average investment loss of stocks chosen by the Journal's experts
10 Number of teaspoons of sugar recommended daily by the U.S. Department of Agriculture
10 Number of teaspoons of sugar in a 12-oz. can of Pepsi
Sources: Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Agence France Presse, Tufts University Health and Nutrition Letter