Indexing

The always-interesting new Harper's Index. It's like the Newsweek Numbers page, only more informative and entertaining.

Annual cost of all sixteen U.N. peacekeeping missions currently underway : $3,870,000,000

Monthly cost of the U.S. occupation of Iraq : $4,100,000,000

Revenue from Iraqi oil sales that the CPA could not account for, according to a 2005 audit : $8,800,000,000

Estimated number of U.S. intelligence reports on Iraq that were based on a single defector : 100

Number of times the defector had ever been interviewed by U.S. intelligence agents : 0

Minimum number of newspapers in which Denmark posted ads this year seeking antiterrorist spies : 3

Percentage of Iceland residents who took out an ad this winter apologizing for Icelandic support of the Iraq war : 1.5

Number of books published last year in Iceland and the United States, respectively, per 100,000 residents : 212, 63

Number of books registered at BookCrossing.com, so the books can be left in public places and found by others : 1,935,000

Number of the books left behind that have been from the Left Behind series : 2,047

Rank, on the Turkish bestseller list in March, of a thriller depicting a U.S. invasion of Turkey : 1

Rank of Mein Kampf : 2