1.   For one thing, government economic statistics have fallen victim to the fiscal paralysis in Washington.

2.   Statistics have some usefulness in the study of public health issues.

3.   Also has adoption statistics, listings of state statutes and a database of adoption officials and agencies.

4.   All these statistics have drawbacks.

5.   But for some museum officials, the statistics do have a troubling aspect.

6.   But in terms of perceptions, such statistics still have the unreal quality of that big red arrow.

7.   But that statistic should have a little asterisk attached to it.

8.   But the way I looked at it, statistics had nothing to do with me.

9.   Except that similarly shocking statistics have been reported for years.

10.   Every glowing statistic had a second, sobering face.