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$600 million

ESTIMATED SALE PRICE FOR the Chicago Cubs. Current owner Tribune Co. said in April that the baseball team will be sow at the end of this season.

SOURCE: THE NE W YORK TIMES

1,100

NUMBER OF APPLICANTS WITH perfect 800 scores on the math section of the SAT who were rejected by Harvard this year. From a record 22,955 applicants, Harvard accepted 2,058.

SOURCE: THE NEW YORK TIMES

63%

GROWTH SINCE 1995 IN the average number of TV channels in U.S. homes; the average number of channels actually watched grew 5 percent.

SOURCE: THE NEW YORK TIMES

$23 billion

MONEY SENT HOME FROM overseas by...