Numbers

$60.3 billion The overall U.S. trade deficit in November, an all-time high

1.5 million Number of U.S. jobs lost from 1989 to 2003 that are attributed to increased trade with China

16% Increase in the monthly risk to doctor trainees of getting in a car wreck on the way home after a 24-hour-plus shift

36% Increase in medical errors made by interns during such marathon shifts, a hallmark of medical training in the U.S.

$170 million Amount the FBI has spent computerizing its case-file database, which proved so inadequate in a three-month test run that the agency may scrap the whole project

$2 million Amount the FBI is paying a separate computer firm to determine whether any of the software is salvageable

20% Percentage of people who say they think most creatively in their cars

5% Percentage of people who say they think most creatively in the shower

Sources: New York Times; Reuters; New England Journal of Medicine (2); AP (2); Lemelson-M.I.T. Invention Index Study (2)