Numbers

HIRING 12% Percentage of employers who admit to consulting social-networking sites like Facebook.com for help with their hiring process

63% Percentage of those employers who declined to hire an applicant because of what they found. Suspected criminal behavior and faked qualifications are two of the top deal breakers

HEALTH 50% Percentage of Australia's Aborigines who smoke. The national average is below 20%. Poverty, lack of health education, and the fact that indigenous people were once given tobacco as compensation for their land may be to blame

17 Number of years the Aborigines' average life span is shorter than that of their non-indigenous counterparts. Widespread abuse of alcohol and drugs may be contributing factors

TRAVEL $100,000 Cost per plane to outfit domestic flights for onboard Internet access. American Airlines will start offering the service in 2008

$10 Price per flight for passengers to use the service

FISHING $1 million Prize at the Forrest Wood Cup bass-fishing competition in Arkansas for the winning two-day catch, seven bass weighing a total of 17 lbs. 1 oz. (7.75 kg). It was the largest single prize in the history of the sport

$47.26 Wholesale value of 17 lbs. of wild striped bass (2006)

Sources: Reuters (2); BBC (2); CNN (2); FLW Outdoors; Worcester Telegram & Gazette