What the number 4,763 means

New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said Thursday that 4,763 people have been reported as missing after the World Trade Center attack.

That number is:

-- More than the death tolls of the Titanic (about 1,500), Pearl Harbor (2,400) and the worst plane crash in history (582, Canary Islands, 1977) combined.

-- More than twice as big as New York City's record murder total for an entire year (2,245 in 1990).

-- The entire population of Taos, N.M. (4,700).

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