在股市里有無數的理論解釋漲跌，我卻很難理解。我的眼里股市漲跌和花開花落，春來冬去，生老病死是一樣的，
花開了就會謝，人生了就會死，股票漲了就會跌。 ---一名署名「熊市」網友

8: the age at which one in six British girls now reaches puberty, compared with one in 100 of their parents' generation.

120 million: acts of sexual intercourse that take place around the world each day, which result in 910,000 conceptions.

80%: according to Queen Elizabeth II's bra supplier, the percentage of women who, because of poor fitting and improper measurements, were the wrong size brassiere.

5 p.m.: the best time of day to make love if you want to make babies, according to Italian researchers.

60 million: the estimated number of people aged 15-24 around the world who are looking for work but cannot find it.

4.14 million: the price paid at auction last week by an unnamed buyer for a silver dollar minted in 1834, more that double the previous record for a rare coin.

50,000: fatalities worldwide annually caused by snake bites; over 30000 of them occur in India.

855: measurement of the intensity of spiciness of the Indian Naga Jolokia chili, surpassing 577 for the Mexican habanero.

63: North Korean spies returned home from prison in the South who received "national unification prizes."

3:how many years each person spends suffering colds. In a 75-year lifetime the average person will have 200 colds, each lasting five or six days.

60%: the proportion of the world's couples who are using some method of birth control.

90,000: dogs to be killed on the Indonesian island of Flores to stop an outbreak of rabies that has killed 11 people.

1,789: kidnaps for ransom across the world in 1999;the most dangerous countries were Colombia, Mexico and the former Soviet Union.

200: pigs killed to make a world record 23-km, nine-ton sausage in Langogne, southern France.

94 million: hens' eggs eaten by Austria's 8 million inhabitants over the Easter holiday.

5,972 billion billion tons: weight of the earth, calculated by physicists in Washington.

32,863: Japanese suicides in 1998, three times the number of road deaths. 720 were children, many of who died in family suicides.

7 million: people in the world with liquid assets of more than $1 million.

$35 million: price of a Gulfstream jet for the personal use of President Museveni of Uganda, described by the IMF as a "heavily indebted poor country."

1,003: average seconds devoted to advertising breaks in one hour - or 3,600 seconds - of U.S. prime-time TV.

10 million: years that the earth's ecosystem would need to repopulate the planet with species to compensate for those driven to extinction by man.

19%: Japanese men in their 20s found to be overweight. Desk jobs, junk food and irregular mealtimes get the blames.

53: Cuban cigar brands sold worldwide. The island exported 148 million cigars in 1999 - 128 million of them hand rolled.

150 million: children aged six to 11 around the globe who are not in school. 90 million of them are girls.

13,000: number of cell phones left on public transport in London every year, overtaking umbrellas; 4,000 a year remain unclaimed.

300: the number of different languages regularly spoken within the boundaries of London.

33,000: the number of Chinese dams and dikes that will have to be reinforced because of poor construction. 3,200 dams have failed since 1949.

300 million: the number of smokers in China, more than in all the developed world. The Chinese government makes $10 billion a year in tobacco tax.

300,000: cashmere goats to be slaughtered to help prevent the desert from encroaching on Beijing in 2000.

1.5million: the number of chickens due to be slaughtered in Australia's Mangrove mountain Ridge region to contain an outbreak of Newcastle disease.

11,000: according to the WHO, the number of people who die each day from tobacco-related diseases.

3 million: the estimated number of people who have died as a result of earthquakes since 1900.