$16,191,918 Total scholarship money distributed through the University of Pennsylvania's financial aid office from June 30, 2005, to June 30, 2006, according to Businessweek.com's undergraduate profile of Penn.

427,000 Number of Pa. workers who would directly benefit from a minimum wage increase to $7.15—compared to 181,000 who would benefit from raising it to $6.25—as reported by The Philadelphia Unemployment Project at www.philaup.org.

813 Number of animals residing at the Philadelphia Zoo when it opened as the United States' first zoo July 1, 1874. Somehow, the doubling of the creature population doesn't seem to justify the fact that the admission price has risen from its original 25 cents to $16.95 for adults. Forget minimum wage; let's get a special committee on zoo admission gouging. Here's the plan: Penn will use that financial aid money to buy 955,275 zoo tickets, creating plenty of time for the Wharton kids to figure out the inflation problem. Somebody please put me in a think tank.

87 Age that Senior Court of Common Pleas Judge Nicholas Cipriani will turn on July 1. Yes, former City Council member Michael Nutter, we know you turn 49 June 29. Not impressed.

24 Rank of Philadelphia in a National Women's Health Resource Center survey to determine the 100 top hot spots of the serious-but-common affliction dry eye. Keep that in mind the next time you describe a particularly sad audience. Chances are there will be a case or two in the house.