Heather A. Davis

The health-conscious know that they’re likely to wreak havoc on their hips if they eat too much at Thanksgiving dinner or dip too heartily into gigantic supermarket dispensers of candy. But what if they sampled just a little bit of each potato dish or just a couple pieces of each gummy color?

After striding on stage to Bruce Springsteen’s “Never Surrender,” Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry pitched his candidacy on Sept. 24 to a crowd of thousands on the Penn campus.

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.

Interest in e-learning soared in the 1990s, when it was praised as a revolutionary way for students to participate in global communities from kindergarten to higher education. E-learning—educational content provided through emerging technology—promised students quick feedback on papers and course work for substantially lower costs than using books.

For 41 years, Janet Ruth Falon has kept a journal, writing about her spirituality, Jewish faith, and both painful and joyful experiences.

President George W. Bush accuses Democratic Senator John Kerry of casting 98 Senate votes to increase taxes. John Kerry says new jobs being created on the Bush administration’s watch are paying workers $9,000 less than old ones. Are these statements true, or are they simply political spin designed to win votes?

Whether they were creating inflatable pillow-like structures or burying the front ends of cars in the ground to form Cadillac Ranch (right), the members of Ant Farm pushed the boundaries of installation art. With a sharp eye, the art and architecture collective—founded in San Francisco during the late 1960s—criticized consumerism while experimenting with video, design and performance art.

What is the best type of affordable housing for Philadelphia? What do individual neighborhoods need most? How can architects design buildings that fit in with the character of the other structures on the street?

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Penn Athletics is set to roll out an eye-catching new logo this fall. The revamped design, an update of the familiar split “P”, will be on display at Franklin Field and the Palestra this fall and on many team uniforms by next year.