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December 22-28, 2005

naked city

Running Numbers

600 Estimated number of Powerball lottery tickets that were sold per second throughout Pennsylvania on Dec. 24, 2002. On Christmas Day, West Virginia resident Sue Dooley won the $314.9 million jackpot, the largest Powerball prize ever won by a single ticket holder.

3 Number of name changes undergone since Wanamaker's began its annual light show in 1956.

$3 Toll amount—for both coming and going—if you take the Delaware Turnkpike/I-95 to Delaware. Just something to think about when you get tempted to head to the home of you-know-what and pretty much nothing else.

3 Number of duty-free shops at Philadelphia International Airport. Anyone headed to France to visit relatives better pick up a carton of reds for stocking stuffers in case there aren't any champagne glasses to pocket during the flight. (Put 'em in your purse!)

0 Number of tickets left for Matisyahu's show at the TLA on Dec. 24. No Hasidic reggae on Christmas Eve for us this year. Another tradition lost.

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