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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.
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.
If you see more, you’re likely to eat more
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?
E-learning hasn’t lived up to the hype
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.
Writer urges people to keep journals in times of joy and pain
For 41 years, Janet Ruth Falon has kept a journal, writing about her spirituality, Jewish faith, and both painful and joyful experiences.
Web site cuts through political spin
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?
Digging through trash to find history
For Robert Schuyler and his students, one town’s trash is their archaeological treasure. Associate Curator of Penn Museum’s Historical Archaeology section, Schuyler has been working with his students for the last three years to unearth garbage from the not-so-distant past.
Masters and majors
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Art Antics
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.
Students to tackle local housing
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?