That’s the number of stories on Google News during the first 18 days of September that contained the word “Taliban.” That’s more than a 1000% increase over the number of stories containing that term in the first 18 days of August.

That’s the percentage of Japanese who think that China’s growing military power is a bad thing for their country. That concern is shared by large majorities of others among China’s neighbors.

That’s the percentage of Pakistanis who say that relations between the U.S. and Pakistan have improved in recent years.

That’s the percentage of online adult Americans who have some type of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service in their home as of December 2005.

That’s the number of unauthorized workers currently in the U.S. labor market who arrived after 2000. The Pew Hispanic Center estimates that these workers constitute about 35% of the total 7.2 million unauthorized workers now in the United States.

That’s the percentage of Americans who oppose allowing pharmacists to refuse to sell birth control pills for religious reasons. Fewer than one-in-five (17%) express support for this type of “conscience clause” exemption.