Monday, Sep. 24, 2001

For The Record

$1.1 billion Cost of the World Trade Center buildings

$1,197 Nonstop one-way fare for a Boston-Los Angeles flight on American Airlines

$4 Cost of a box cutter

116,000 American flags sold by Wal-Mart on Sept. 11

6,400 Flags sold by Wal-Mart on that date last year

$40 billion Value of the emergency antiterrorism package approved by the U.S. Congress on Sept. 14

$11.1 billion Amount of federal aid approved after Hurricane Andrew struck in 1992, until now the most expensive disaster in U.S. history

30,000 Body bags set aside for New York City after the World Trade Center terrorist attacks

20,000 DNA tests the New York City medical examiner is willing to conduct to identify victims

2,527 People killed in international terrorist acts from 1990 to 1999

5,515 People reported missing or dead in New York City and Washington after the Sept. 11 attacks

12,500 Estimated number of murders in U.S. in 2000

11,550 Uniformed New York City fire fighters

350 Fire fighters missing or dead since the Sept. 11 attack

27 Fire fighters who died in 1947 battling ship fires in Texas City, Texas--previously the most in any single disaster

$29,973 Starting salary of an N.Y.C. fire fighter

1918 The last time Major League Baseball play was suspended for more than three days, during World War I

1929 The last time the New York Stock Exchange was shut down for more than three days, after the Crash

$3.2 billion Amount a developer paid in July to lease the World Trade Center office and retail space

99 Years left on that lease

0 Number of times in the past that Broadway theaters have voluntarily gone dark

0 Number of times the FAA has shut down all U.S. airports

0 Number of times the NFL has postponed all games

9/11/1922 Beginning of the British mandate in Palestine and the eventual creation of the Israeli state

9/11/1840 British bombing of Beirut in support of Turkey

$30 million Pledged by the Lilly Endowment to help the relief efforts

$1,000 Donated by the Guste public-housing development in New Orleans

2 hr. 40 min. Time it took for the Titanic to sink after hitting an iceberg

1 hr. 44 min. Time between the first attack and the collapse of both World Trade Center towers

Sources: Divided We Stand (Basic Books, 2000), www.aa.com Home Depot, AP, Agence France Presse, N.Y. Times, Washington Post, Office of the Mayor, NYT, CIA, TIME, Combat Area Casualties File, NYT (3), FDNY, AP (2), NYT (2), CNN (3), AP (4), Encyclopedia Titanica, TIME