Numbers in the news.700% Percentage increase in pencil sales in Britain--reportedly due to the sudoku craze. SOURCE THE INDEPENDENT [LONDON] $17.3 million Price paid at auction for four rare Revolutionary War battle flags--more than the cost of the war itself. SOURCE: THE NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of TIMES 10.95 Weight, in pounds, of Art History, by Marilyn Stokstad; it is perhaps the world's heaviest college textbook. SOURCE: THE NEW YORK TIMES $10 Minimum hourly wage that big-box stores like Wal-Mart must pay in Chicago by 2010, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a new city ordinance. SOURCE: THE NEW YORK, TIMES 102.7 Decibel decibel (dĕs`əbĕl', –bəl), abbr. dB, unit used to measure the loudness of sound. It is one tenth of a bel (named for A. G. Bell), but the larger unit is rarely used. level of a shriek shriek - exclamation mark emitted by tennis prayer Maria Sharapova during a Wimbledon match in July. Jackhammer noise is about 100 decibels. SOURCE: TIME |
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