Numbers

HEALTH

2.2 million

Number of people in the developing world with access to antiretroviral drugs for HIV/AIDS treatment in 2006. Three years ago, there were fewer than 300,000

Number of people who are newly infected with the disease for every individual put on antiretroviral treatment. Patient need still far exceeds drug access

TECHNOLOGY

50%

Approximate increase in the price of Apple stock, now more than $140 a share, since plans for the iPhone were unveiled in early January

8,000

Number of songs that fit on the not-yet-released Walkman W960i, Sony Ericsson's touchscreen answer to the iPhone, which holds hundreds

ELECTIONS

$100 million

Amount by which Democrats have out-raised Republicans so far in the 2008 campaign. Dems are on pace to win the money race for the White House and Congress for the first time since the government began keeping track

16%

Percentage of presidential campaign funds raised in amounts of $200 or less this year, nearly four times as much as in the same period of the past two presidential campaigns

SUBSIDIES

$400,000

U.S. Department of Agriculture subsidy to a single soybean-and-corn farm in Illinois from 1999 to 2005--paid to an owner who died in 1995

$1.1 billion

Total amount of federal farm subsidies paid over that same period to estates of deceased farmers

Sources: BBC (2); Reuters; Sony Ericsson; Apple; Wall Street Journal; Los Angeles Times; Chicago Tribune (2)