The conflict cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of Filipinos and about four thousand U.S. soldiers.

NEWYORKER: The Water Cure

He found that between January of 2002 and June of 2008 some nine hundred people in the two buildings accounted for more than four thousand hospital visits and about two hundred million dollars in health-care bills.

NEWYORKER: The Hot Spotters

It took me four years of college and about a thousand papers, pop quizzes, multiple choice tests, mid-term exams, finals, a handful of art projects and one thesis to determine exactly what I should have majored in.

FORBES: If You Could Do College All Over Again, Would You?

"I've been in my job three and a half years and I've had fewer than five letters or contacts from the public about this issue, whereas I've had three to four thousand contacts from members of the media, " he said.

BBC: Open to stay men only

Four thousand people on a stranded ship can't flush, Hilton jokingly messaged Stanfield, venting about the stench on board.

CNN: Supplies headed to befouled cruise ship in Gulf of Mexico

Four-thousand people on a stranded ship can't flush, Hilton jokingly messaged Stanfield, venting about the stench on board.

CNN: Supplies reach befouled cruise ship in Gulf of Mexico