Running Numbers

A scholarly look at the digits that matter.


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Published: Jan 6, 2009

Running Numbers asks the big questions.

2 Number of Super Bowl tickets — along with airfare and a four-night hotel accommodation in Tampa, Fla. — that will be awarded to the winner of the Super Bowl Dream Get-Away drawing, to be chosen during halftime of the NCAA national championship game on Jan. 8 at Harrington's Pub, Wellington and Frankford avenues. Raffle tickets are $20 and proceeds benefit the Philadelphia Blue Flame police and fire football club. Visit fop5.org for details. The question is, can this city handle back-to-back championships?

12 Number of exhibition galleries that will be featured in "America I AM: The African American Imprint," a 15,000-square-foot exhibition at the National Constitution Center, Jan. 15 to May 3. The exhibit celebrates 500 years of African-American contributions to the nation and aims to answer W.E.B Dubois' question, "Would America have been America without her Negro people?"

$49 Cost of adult tickets to the third annual Hot Stove Dinner and Auction hosted by the Phillies-affiliated Williamsport Crosscutters on Jan. 14 at the Genetti Hotel in Williamsport. Why should you drive three hours to see Phils pitcher J.A. Happ and the Phillie Phanatic? Because proceeds benefit the Lycoming County United Way. Oh, and you can get your picture taken with the Phillies' World Series Trophy. Visit crosscutters.com or call 570-326-3389 for tickets.

150 Number of years that the Mütter Museum has been informing and disturbing its visitors. Now, the museum asks, "Do you have night fever?" Thankfully, the museum "has the prescription for you" — a 150th anniversary celebration on Jan. 9, including a "Whimsical Victorian Dinner" at 7 p.m. followed by a "Disco Inferno" at 9 p.m. Visit collphyphil.org/mutter150.html for tickets.

300 Approximate number of members — throughout the U.S. and Canada — in the Retail Confectioners Association of Philadelphia, which is sponsoring the 119th Philadelphia National Candy Gift & Gourmet Show — "America's oldest show dedicated to the retail confectioner" — Jan. 11-13 at the Atlantic City Convention Center. What's wrong, confectioners? The PA Convention Center not sweet enough for you?

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