CORPORATE GIVING

$272.9 million The amount of Wal-Mart's U.S. charitable giving last year, a 10 percent increase for the country's largest corporate donor of cash.

$12.2 billion Wal-Mart's profit last fiscal year, a 7 percent increase.

Source: Associated Press

MORTGAGE CONFUSION

34% of home- owners didn't know what kind of mortgage they had in a poll for the financial Web site Bankrate.com.

28% worry about how they will afford their payments.

Source: L.A. Daily News

SEPARATED AT BIRTH?

U.S. District Judge Edward Nottingham, presiding over the Joe Nacchio trial, and Paulie Walnuts from The Sopranos.

AIRLINE COMPLAINTS

Got a complaint about an airline? The federal Department of Transportation has about 12 people in its Aviation Consumer Protection Division who handle them.

• E-mail: airconsumer@dot.gov

• Voice mail: 202-366-2220; complaints can be recorded.

Source: The Wall Street Journal

COORS REDESIGN

With a nod to the days when consumers couldn't get Coors, nicknamed the Banquet Beer, east of the Mississippi, Coors Brewing Co. has launched a package redesign and new advertising campaign for its original pilsner.