Briefing

‘We still don’t know enough.’

1. STANLEY MCCHRYSTAL, former commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, reflecting on challenges troops faced during 10 years of fighting in the country

‘I thought it was a price of a pizza.’

2. JON HUNTSMAN, Republican presidential candidate, attacking the “9-9-9” economic plan of rival Herman Cain, the former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza

‘He said, “I don’t think I have any weapons left, but I had a good time trying to beat it.”‘

3. BILL CLINTON, at TIME’s Chicago Ideas Week conference, describing the last time he spoke with Steve Jobs, who died after a seven-year battle with pancreatic cancer

‘If someone came with a truckload of Rush Limbaugh’s books, we’d [keep them]. We’re not opposed to having a dissenting voice.’

4. MICHAEL OMAN-REAGAN, a graduate student at Hunter College in New York City, on the People’s Library, a makeshift book collection created by Occupy Wall Street protesters

‘Now it’s time for them to cede power to a civilian who truly believes in citizenship and equality.’

5. MARKO HABIB, an Egyptian law student, after a crackdown against Coptic Christian protesters in Cairo by Egypt’s armed forces left 26 people dead and 300 injured

18

Minimum age required to use a tanning bed in California under a recently enacted law

9.6%

Decline in median income of U.S. college graduates since 2000, a difference of more than $4,000

472

Number of consecutive weekly AP college-football top-25 polls with at least one school from Florida before the 29-year streak was broken this season

0.9 MM

Additional distance (about 0.04 in.) that London’s Big Ben has tilted each year since 2003; the lean is now visible to the naked eye

Sources: BBC; Bloomberg; TIME (2); Guardian