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$30,000 PRICE OF A ONE-NIGHT stay in the priciest suite atop the Four Seasons Hotel in New York City, Amenities include a private hearth spa and a full-time butler.

SOURCE: THE NEW YORK TIMES

159,000 NUMBER OF U.S. JOBS lost in September--the biggest monthly loss in five years.

SOURCE: THE NEW YORK TIMES

6 million NUMBER OF QUESTIONS submitted online for the 90-minute town-hall-style debate between John McCain and Barack Obama in Nashville on October 6; there was time for only 21,

SOURCE: THE NEW YORK TIMES

21 NUMBER OF MONTHS that four protesters lived ;in a giant redwood tree on the University of California...