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Mark Beech
March 12, 2001
$59 millionEarnings last year of Formula One driver Michael Schumacher, placing him atop Forbes's list of the highest-paid athletes, $6 million ahead of second-ranked Tiger Woods.
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March 12, 2001

Go Figure

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$59 million
Earnings last year of Formula One driver Michael Schumacher, placing him atop Forbes's list of the highest-paid athletes, $6 million ahead of second-ranked Tiger Woods.

130,000
Height in feet from which former Australian commando Rodd Millner plans to skydive out of a high-altitude balloon next March.

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E-mails Capitals owner Ted Leonsis got from fans of the team on Feb. 11, the first day since he bought the club in June 1999 that his in-box didn't contain at least one fan's note.

$3.5 million
Amount 76ers center Dikembe Mutombo is donating toward the construction of a 300-bed hospital in his hometown of Kinshasa, Congo, the first new medical facility in the country's capital in 40 years.

$2
Amount Mark McGwire will receive for every fan the Cardinals draw above 2.8 million in '02 and '03.

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