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Staff Q&A: Bob Higgins
STAFF Q&A/Getting trauma victims to Penn’s hospitals is all in a day’s work for the man who run’s UPHS’s helicopter flight team.
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T Cell's Memory May Offer Long-Term Immunity to Leishmaniasis
PHILADELPHIA -- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have discovered a "central memory" form of "helper" T cells that can offer immunity to leishmaniasis, a disease that causes considerable death and disfigurement across the globe and has been found in U.S. military personnel returning from Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Bookquick/“Everyday Politics: Reconnecting Citizens and Public Life”
Increasingly a spectator sport, electoral politics has become bitterly polarized by professional consultants and lobbyists, and has been boiled down to the distributive mantra of “who gets what.” In “Everyday Politics,” Harry Boyte transcends partisan politics to offer an alternative. He demonstrates how community rooted activities reconnect citizens to engaged public life, not just on election day, but throughout the year.
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Looking inside terror cells
They’re college educated people from upper middle-class homes, many of whom are married with children. They don’t have criminal records and they suffer a less-than-average rate of mental illness. They’re also terrorists. “ Most of what we know about terrorism is wrong,” said forensic psychiatrist Marc Sageman, speaking at the Penn Bookstore on Sept. 23. “[Terrorists] are the elite of their country.”
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Arguing for reason in a name-calling culture
As Amy Gutmann acknowledged Sept. 23 at the Penn Bookstore, deliberative democracy is not a phrase that trips off the tongue easily. But, she said, "It holds out the biggest promise for making democracy the best it can be." "Deliberation is difficult. It requires education, experience and good models," Gutmann said during a talk and book signing for two of her books, "Why Deliberative Democracy?" (with Dennis Thompson) and "Identity in Democracy."
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Out & About: Gold diggers
Bling bling may be on the way out. At least that was one of the opinions voiced at “Seven-Up on Gold,” Sept. 29 at Kelly Writers House. The event, the first in a series that will invite seven speakers to talk, sing or generally hold forth on a particular topic for about seven minutes, was being held in conjunction with “Color Project,” the current exhibit at the Esther Klein Gallery.
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A 9/11 rumor bites the dust
Not long after 9/11, rumors began to circulate about the fate of the search-and-rescue dogs that dug through the rubble in the days following the tragedy. Stories appeared about dogs dying after inhaling toxic fumes and others developing cancer.
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Beauty in motion
When Norman Badler was in graduate school, trying to figure out a topic for his dissertation, he became enamored by vision. Specifically, he couldn’t help but be impressed by the human ability to not only see, but also to process that information in real time. “ It struck me then that people are able to do something quite remarkable,” says Badler. “They can look at other people and at the same time describe what those people are doing.” His dream was to give computers that same ability.
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Partnerships with Hospitals in Armenia and Russia Lead to Improved Patient Care and Opportunities for Nurses
PHILADELPHIA -- Nurses sponsored by the American International Health Alliance, including those from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, have helped four hospitals in Armenia and Russia change the work environment for nurses and improve patient outcomes. Their efforts helped the hospitals earn the "Journey to Excellence" award from the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
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