Numbers

By Kathleen Adams, Melissa August, Amanda Bower, Val Castronovo, Randy Hartwell, Ellin Martens, Sora Song and Josh Tyrangiel

$25 million Amount Harrison Ford will receive for filming K-19: The Widowmaker, playing the commander of an ill-fated Russian submarine

$214.28 Monthly salary of the late commander of the ill-fated Russian submarine Kursk, which sank last year

343,000 Amount by which the population of all European Union countries combined grew last year

343,000 Amount by which India's population grew in the first week of 2001

38 Average age at which Americans surveyed believe they reach their peak physical attractiveness

22 Average age of Vogue cover models in 2000

89 Percentage of nightly network-news stories reported by whites in 2000

76 Percentage of nightly network-news stories reported by men in 2000

Sources: New York Post; United Nations Population Division; AARP; USA Today