By the Numbers

59

Percent of college students who had a laptop in 2007

24

Percent who said they had one in 2002

16

Number of Hall of Famers who played in the 1961 NFL Championship game between the Green Bay Packers and New York Giants

8.49

Degrees colder than any other field, on average, games at Lambeau Field have been in December and January since 2000

4.4

Percent increase in the average New England winter temperature since 1970

1

Football field, the amount of Louisiana coastal land transformed to water every 45 minutes

8,000

Miles of canals built throughout the Louisiana coast by oil and gas interests since the 1930s

217

Square miles of land mass that transformed to water as a result of hurricanes Rita and Katrina in 2005

7

Number of Latinos for every four full-time farmers in Iowa

Sources: WGN TV; United States Geological Survey; Harper’s