The length of “Freedom of Information Act: The People’s Right to Know,” an instructional video which the Pentagon uses to teach its employees how to interpret the act’s maximum-disclosure provision:
22 Minutes
The amount of the video made available to a reporter when the Pentagon rejected his request to see the film under the Freedom of Information Act:
0 Minutes
Time it took for PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment for Animals) to issue an official condemnation of Palestinian suicide bombings following a Jan. 26 bombing that used a donkey to transport a bomb into a crowded marketplace:
5,760 Minutes
The average life span of a donkey:
15,768,000 Minutes
Time remaining in a recent soccer match in Sheffield, England when the onset of heavy fog resulted in the cancellation of the game:
37 Minutes
Time that the visiting team’s goaltender remained on the field after play was suspended because the fog was too thick to see that the field had been vacated:
10 Minutes
Time that Joe R. Thompson, 18, spent dangling from a live power wire after being thrown 25 feet into the air in a recent car crash in Blue Springs, Mo., before police arrived to help him down:
20 Minutes
Average police response time in Missouri:
4.06 Minutes
Length of the Science B-57 “Dinosaurs and their Relatives” midterm:
90 Minutes
Time since dinosaurs last walked the earth:
34,164,000,000,000 Minutes
