Submitted For Your Approval - US News & World Report

* #3 magazine in a dying category.

* Paper-thin from lack of ads.

* Owner Mort Zuckerman's $10 million write-off of Radar helped balance USN&WR's losses.

* How many copies dropped off in dentist and doctor offices are counted as circulation?

* Nine employees laid off in fall 2005 for "repositioning" into investigative publication.

SURVIVAL ODDS: 30%