• Consumers today encounter from 3,500 to 5,000 marketing messages per day, vs. 500 to 2,000 in the 1970s.
• About 157,000 American fathers -- less than 1 percent of all dads -- have elected to stay home and care for the kids full time.
• Fifty-five percent of men ages 18 to 24 have returned to the nest to live with their parents, as have 47 percent of women.
• One out of every three music CDs sold worldwide last year was pirated. Stolen recordings outsold legal ones in 31 countries.
• Eighty percent of college juniors and seniors claim they know how to take care of their money after they graduate. But 32 percent of them have missed a credit card payment and nearly a quarter have bounced a check.
• Sharks get the headlines, but Bambi is the real killer. Shark attacks killed 11 in the United States in 1990-2004, while car-deer collisions kill an average of 130 a year. Wasps and bees kill nearly 50 Americans each year.
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