Numbers

By Melissa August, Val Castronovo, Matthew Cooper, Rachel Dry, Michael Jackson, Unmesh Kher, Julie Rawe, John Rosenblatt, Joel Stein and Josh Tyrangiel

34.3 million People worldwide living with HIV or AIDS

24.5 million People in sub-Saharan Africa living with HIV or AIDS

5,500 People in sub-Saharan Africa who die of AIDS each day

15.2 Percentage of low-birth-weight babies who graduated from high school by age 19

57.5 Percentage of their normal-birth-weight siblings who graduated from high school by age 19

66 Number of air-rage incidents reported by U.S. airline crews in 1997

534 Number of air-rage incidents reported by U.S. airline crews in 1999

21,757 Number of orders placed at AmericaChews.com for a bag of cookies with George W. Bush's face drawn in icing, as of last Friday

10,894 Number of orders placed for a bag of the site's Al Gore cookies

Sources: UNAIDS, Washington Post; New York Times; International Transport Workers' Federation; AmericaChews.com