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$35 billion

Projected Savings over five years as a result of the senate legislation passed last week aimed at reducing the federal deficit

$16 billion

Projected savings to come from cuts to health and education spending

$0

Projected savings to come from cuts to defense spending

18

Rank of Boston in the "best cities for hooking up in America" poll, conducted by AXE Body Spray. Seattle came in first and Birmingham, Alabama, dead last

40%

Portion of 500 18- to 24-year-olds polled who defined hooking up as kissing; 30% defined it as intercourse; 20% as groping; 10% as oral sex

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Are the Patriots done?

Hell, No

Stick a fork in ’em

Last week’s results

Who should the Red Sox hire as their next GM?

Dan Shaughnessy 9%

Larry Lucchino 2%

That guy at Fenway who sprints from the bullpen to the dugout with the relief pitcher’s jacket 89%

"Live every moment to the fullest and love like you’ll never get hurt."

--Team-bio quote from Renee Thomas, 20, the Carolina Panthers cheerleader who was fired from the squad this week after allegedly having sex with a fellow cheerleader in a bathroom stall at Tampa’s Banana Joe’s nightclub and then punching another patron in the face.

1.9 million

Number of Americans the US Department of Health and Human Services is now predicting would die should an outbreak of bird flu occur

10,000

Units of the antiviral drug Tamiflu purchased last week by Richard Branson, chairman of Virgin Atlantic airlines, who plans to distribute the drugs to his employees in the event of a bird-flu outbreak