Monday, Mar. 20, 2000
Numbers
By Melissa August, Val Castronovo, Matthew Cooper, Daniel Levy, Barbara Maddux, Julie Rawe, Alain Sanders, Flora Tartakovsky and Josh Tyrangiel
$50,000 Reward offered for the capture of a motorist who threw a bichon frise dog into oncoming traffic
$15,000 Reward offered for the capture of an Orlando, Fla., kidnapping suspect. The victim, a 10-year-old girl, was returned unharmed
57 Children fathered by Brigham Young, legendary 19th century president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
57 Children believed to have been fathered by Screamin' Jay Hawkins, legendary bluesman, who died last month
$151,800 Robert Rubin's annual salary while Secretary of the Treasury
$21.5 million Rubin's compensation for two months' work in the chairman's office at Citigroup
102 Months it took for the NASDAQ composite to rise from 500 to 3,000
4 Months it took for the NASDAQ to move from 3,000 to 5,000
Sources: Los Angeles Times; Orlando Sentinel; www.mormons.org Wall of Sound; USA Today; MarketHistory.com