Numbers

By Melissa August, Ann Marie Bonardi, Val Castronovo, Matthew Cooper, Daren Fonda, Benjamin Nugent, Julie Rawe, Victoria Rainert

$26.5 million Record amount made last week at a Democratic National Committee fund raiser, attended by 13,625 people, whose contribution levels ranged from $50 to $500,000

$3.75 Amount those who gave $50 for bleacher seats had to pay for a soda

300,000 Number of deportation cases pending in U.S. immigration courts

11 Number of cases involving secret evidence, allowed under a 1996 anti-terrorism act that was challenged last week by lawmakers and the A.C.L.U.

300 lbs. Weight of an inflatable tequila bottle stolen last month from a Long Island bar

75 Number of bottles of tequila Jose Cuervo is offering, over 25 years, for the return of the bar's mascot

$670 million Cost of a disabled space-research satellite, which NASA will crash into the Pacific in early June

1 in 1,000 Odds of a human fatality if backup plans fail and the satellite were to fall randomly from space

Sources: New York Times (fund raiser); Washington Post (cases); Jose Cuervo (tequila); USA Today (satellite)