Sunday, Oct. 22, 2006

Numbers

6.7 Magnitude of last week's earthquake that hit the Big Island of Hawaii, the strongest in the state in more than 20 years

$46 million Estimated cost of damage on the mostly undeveloped island. The 1994 Los Angeles-area quake of the same magnitude caused $25 billion in damage

118 Atomic number of the newest element on the periodic table. The number refers to the quantity of protons in the nucleus of the element--the heaviest ever detected

.001 sec. Length of time that the element existed, according to Russian and U.S. scientists who said last week that they had created it in a circular particle accelerator

$62,000 Estimated yearly pension to which the spouse of former Massachusetts Congressman Gerry Studds, who retired in 1997 and died two weeks ago, is entitled

$0 Amount Studds' spouse Dean Hara will get. The men wed in 2004 after Massachusetts legalized gay marriage, but the Defense of Marriage Act bars the Federal Government from recognizing gay unions

3 in. Size of two tears casino mogul Steve Wynn made in Pablo Picasso's Le Reve when he accidentally elbowed the canvas

$139 million Price for which Wynn had agreed to sell Le Reve to a Connecticut collector, which would have been the most ever paid for a painting. Wynn now plans to keep the piece after it is restored

Sources: AP (2); Physical Review C (2); AP (2); Huffington Post; AP