The percentage of electronics at the end of their lives which were recycled.
The EPA found that the percentage remained consistent from 1999-2005. Even as recycling rates went up, the amount of electronics reaching end of life outpaced the increase, leaving the figure static. (source: EPA, July 2008)
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NBC-Universal (owned by General Electric) made secret bids for the 2012 London Olympics, I believe. ESPN and ABC (owned by Walt Disney) could make the bidding interesting. We could see Mickey Mouse at the Opening Ceremonies. The official city hasn't been announced yet (it is still under consideration), but I wouldn't be at all surprised to see the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (it would be the 1st Olympics -- Summer or Winter -- in South America). I get five Olympics Channels (NBC, Universal HD, USA, and two special HD Olympics channels) -- the Olympics channels sign off often instead of showing good content, including possibly the 100m live.
I'm sorry, I was incorrect. NBC paid $3.5 billion in a secret bid for the 2000 through 2008 Olympics (that is 3 Summer games and 2 Winter games). In 2003 there was a competitive bid and NBC paid $2.2 billion for 2010 and 2012.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E00E6D91739F934A35755C0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all
The only silver lining is that if NBC wins the rights to air the Olympics in 2016 it will probably cause enough demand that people will download/stream the content directly to their televisions and bypass NBC altogether. Of course, I think that this will probably be fairly viable (internet streaming to TV with wireless N or its successor) in 4 years, too, when NBC is almost assuredly going to botch the coverage entirely. 8PM on the East Coast is 1AM in London, so there will be no live anything in 4 years.