Percentage of Americans who say most people cannot be trusted, according to a study conducted by the Pew Research Center for People and the Press: 45

Percentage of Americans who say you can't be too careful: 50

Percentage of American adults who say their community is a very good or good place to live: 56

BY OUR CELLS

Percentage of U.S. households that have no cell phones, according to a study conducted by Frank N. Magid Associates: 15.6

Percentage with one: 26.2

Percentage with two: 33.6

Percentage with three or more: 24.6

SPORTS AT WORK

Percentage of U.S. workers who have participated in an office pool, according to a Spherion "Workplace Snapshot" survey: 49

Percentage who have watched or followed sporting events on the computer while at work: 23

Percentage of U.S. workers who have called in sick to watch or attend, or as a result of watching or attending a sporting event: 10

BEWARE WEB SITES

Rank of Tokelau, three tiny coral atolls a few hundred miles north of Samoa, whose domain is .tk, on the list of the most dangerous Web sites, according to "Mapping the Mal Web," McAfee SiteAdvisor's comprehensive study on the safest and most dangerous online destinations: 1

Ranks of Romania (.ro) and Russia (.ru) on the most dangerous large-country domains list: 1, 2

Ranks of Finland (.fi) and Ireland (.is). as the safest destinations: 1, 2

Ranks of ".info" and ".com" as the riskiest generic sites: 1, 2

9/11 TOLL

Number of jobs lost in the travel industry since 9/11, according to the Travel Industry Association (TIA): 194,000

Amount lost in payroll: $25.9 billion

Amount lost in spending: $94 billion

Amount lost in taxes to federal, state and local governments since 9/11: $15.6 billion

CEOS' SECRET WEAPONS

Percentage of executives who said their administrative assistant is important to their success, according to a survey developed by OfficeTeam: 85

NEW STORES

Estimated number of new store locations that will be opened by America's leading retailers over the next five years, according to the "2007 Retail Tenant Directory" released by Nielsen Trade Dimensions: 94,000

Estimated number of fast-food restaurants that will open in new locations: 13,000

TAX-TIME BONANZA

Percentage of people who will have fun with the extra money from their tax returns, according to the National Retail Federation: 10

Percentage who are planning to put their tax refund toward paying down debt: 43.1

Percentage who anticipate putting some of the money into savings: 38.6

CAREER-MINDED

Percentage of employees globally who actively manage their career based on clear, personal goals, according to a survey conducted by BlessingWhite: 51

Percentage of employees globally who do not expect their employer to provide a career path for them: 57

Percentage of employees who say they know what they want their next job to be: 45

WORKPLACE WOES

Percentage of U.S. employees who say that workplace bullying that creates a hostile work environment should warrant legal action, according to a survey conducted by the Employment Law Alliance: 64

Percentage of U.S. employees who say they have worked for a supervisor or an employer whom they consider abusive: 44

Percentage of U.S. employees who say they have been the "victim of, or heard about, supervisors/employers behaving abusively by making sarcastic jokes/teasing remarks, rudely interrupting, publicly criticizing, giving dirty looks to, or yelling at subordinates, or ignoring them as if they were invisible": 51

IDLE THOUGHT

"Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like."


— Will Rogers