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100,000+

Number of censors monitoring the online activity of China's 111 million Internet users.

SOURCE: HARPER'S

$2.31

Average cost of a gallon of gas in the U.S. at the end of September, compared with $3.07 per gallon a year earlier--a 25 percent drop.

SOURCE: U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT

$17,000

Amount that Jack Neal, a 3-year-old boy in Sleaford, England, successfully bid on eBay for a pink Nissan convertible. The seller agreed to cancel the deal.

SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS

1.23%

Percentage of human DNA that is not shared by chimpanzees. Humans are genetically closer to chimpanzees than to any other...