Monday, Mar. 19, 2001

Numbers

By Kathleen Adams, Val Castronovo, Randy Hartwell, Lisa McLaughlin, Joseph Pierro, Josh Tyrangiel and Sora Song

73,000 Number of animals in Britain destroyed because of an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease

1 million Estimated number of livestock dead in Mongolia's worst winter in 50 years

35.3 million People who identified themselves as Hispanic on the 2000 census, a 57.6% increase from 1990

34.7 million People who identified themselves as black on the 2000 census, a 16% increase from 1990

$362,500 Cash paid by the FBI for a house near the Vienna, Va., home of Robert Hanssen that the agency bought to spy on him

$375,000 Original asking price

$200 million Insurance premium Russia is buying against the possibility that Mir will crash into something other than the Pacific Ocean

1,500 Number of Mir fragments, some as big as a car, expected to fall to Earth

Sources: Newsday, A.P., Bureau of the Census, New York Times, Dateline NBC, USA Today, CNN.com