Numbers

By Melissa August, Val Castronovo, Darren Fonda, Michael Jackson, Benjamin Nugent, John Rosenblatt, Josh Tyrangiel, Alexandra Wolfe

$334 Amount spent in the country of Oman per person per year on health care

$3,724 Amount spent in the U.S., the most of 191 countries surveyed

8, 37 Ranks, respectively, of Oman and the U.S. for overall fairness and quality of their health-care systems

$1.3 billion Amount of aid congressional leaders approved to fight rebels and drug trafficking in Colombia

$75 million Amount of aid approved to assist the world's poorest countries

19,218 Number of gas masks from U.S. military branches tested for defects

10,322 Number found defective

28 Average number of minutes American couples spend having sex

14 Average number of minutes spent by Italian couples

Sources: World Health Organization; AP(2); Penguin Atlas of Human Sexual Behavior