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Friday, October 19, 2007



This Week By the Numbers

By The News Staff


The News Staff


80,000

cans of Silly String sent to the troops. This foamy substances is used for detecting trip wires on bombs.



3

Detroit residents who were struck and killed by a tractor-trailer while using their car to help push a disabled vehicle off Interstate 94



2,000

jobs eliminated by AOL to cut costs and build its strength as it transforms from an Internet access provider to an online advertising company.



$860 million

the price that videogamemaker Electronic Arts is paying for rival VG Holding Corp.

5%

Amount the shares of Intel (Charts, Fortune 500) jumped



90

minutes before a prisoner was supposed to be executed when a court stopped execution because he was set to die amid arguments from death penalty opponents that the state should wait until the U.S. Supreme Court reviews the constitutionality of lethal injections.



 



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