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Putting the brakes on vehicular injuries
In July of 1995, a 20-day-old baby was rushed to the emergency room at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia after being in a car crash. The baby had been riding in a car seat in the passenger side of a Ford Escort when it collided with another vehicle. The airbags deployed, killing the infant. The driver survived.
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A rich and storied history
Photo credit: Candace diCarlo Beth S. Wenger, director of the Jewish Studies Program, calls her entry into the field an “evolution.”
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Penn and the Peace Movement
Photo credit: University Archives During the height of the Vietnam War, Penn students, faculty and administration held strong (and often conflicting) views of America's military involvement. Campus activities such as teach-ins led by faculty members, student demonstrations and anti-war petition drives became frequent occurrences between 1967 and the early 1970s.
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Is the Wistar Institute part of the University?
Dear Benny: Some people tell me the Wistar Institute is part of Penn. But other people tell me it is not affiliated with the University at all. What’s the truth? And what, by the way, does the Institute do?—Wondering Wistfully
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Jeffrey Haas at Penn Bookstore
During the early morning hours of Dec. 4, 1969, Fred Hampton, the 21-year-old chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party, was shot and killed by a barrage of 90 bullets fired by police specially assigned to the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office. Hampton supporters claim the outspoken revolutionary—felled by two bullets to the head at point-blank range—was assassinated by the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office, the Chicago Police Department and J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI.
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Snow removal at Penn
On average, the City of Philadelphia receives about 20 inches of snow a year, according to the National Climate Data Center. The Streets Department keeps (some of) the city streets cleared; residents, landlords and business owners are supposed to shovel a 30-inch path on their sidewalks within six hours after a storm ends.
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Examining education in Franklin's age
It’s well known that Ben Franklin had definite ideas about education. In his 1749 pamphlet, “Proposals Relating to the Youth in Pensilvania,” he laid out his vision for educating students, which included an English language-based curriculum, and schools that were secular, independent entities.
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Staff Q&A/Marilyn Kraut
Just a few decades ago, employers couldn’t be counted on to provide workers with childcare, wellness classes or flex time. The deal was employers provided a stable work environment, and employees kept their jobs as long as they were reliable and responsible.
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What ails America’s health care policies?
As a boy, Tom Baker was fascinated with his father’s work as a doctor. But it wasn’t so much the white coat, stethoscope, or relationship Bruce Baker had with the patients in his family practice in upstate New York that captured young Tom’s imagination.
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Not Yet, Not Yet
President Obama’s historic election in November of 2008 ushered in a new era in American social and political history, a post-racial age in which all past wrongs are null and void, and are to be forgotten and forgiven.