1.  Defensive linemen Marvin Washington and Erik Howard each were hit with $12,000 fines for their actions last Sunday against the Rams.

2.  Defensive tackle Shane Dronett has had a sack in each game.

3.  Denmark, Norway and Sweden each contribute at least seven times as much per capita.

4.  Dennis Byrd and Al Toon, whose Jets careers each ended five years ago this weekend; Byrd because of partial paralysis, Toon because of too many concussions.

5.  Dennis Moore, the deputy managing editor of the paper's Life section, where King's column appears each Monday, wasn't laughing when I spoke to him.

6.  Defibrillator implants are being used in 25,000 to 30,000 patients each year and are being implanted with increasing frequency.

7.  Deficit spending has been a fixture of Washington policymaking since the Johnson administration, climbing through each presidency and peaking at $290 billion in 1992 under George Bush.

8.  Cuban-Americans will be able to send up to $300 every quarter to each household, or up to $1,200 a year.

9.  Culiacan residents say drug smugglers now come each year to pray for bountiful marijuana and opium poppy harvests, successful shipments of cocaine and protection from enemy bullets.

10.  Derek Bell, Bill Spiers and Lance Berkman each had two hits Tuesday, and Spiers and Paul Bako drove in a pair of runs apiece.