Numbers

By Melissa August, Harriet Barovick, Sean Gregory, Janice Horowitz, David Robinson and Rebecca Winters

$13,500 Proposed maximum individual compensation for some 4,500 laid-off Enron employees, as determined in a preliminary agreement between Enron and labor lawyers

$745 million Total amount Enron paid to 140 top executives last year, according to new legal filings by the company

4 Number of miles separating a Cessna plane from the White House after it entered restricted space last week, causing a partial evacuation

75,000 Number of miles separating the earth from a 120-yd.-long asteroid--the closest brush since 1994

62 Average number of hours spent per year by rush-hour drivers in stalled or slowed traffic in U.S. cities

136 Average number of hours spent per year in rush-hour traffic by Los Angeles drivers

85% Increase in miles Americans traveled on average by car in a U.S. city since 1982

Sources: Wall Street Journal; New York Times; Urban Mobility Report/Texas Transportation Institute