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System in shambles?
In 2004, about half a million children in the U.S. were living in court-mandated foster care. Was that in the children’s best interests or does this startling figure represent widespread intrusions into privacy and family rights?
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Before and after at Annenberg
The sleek glass-sheathed Annenberg School building that rose up on campus in 1962 gave its students a fittingly modern home from which to conduct their communications research. If its design was future-focused, so was its construction, which left the past literally in the dust, taking out an entire city block. As the 1959 photo at left shows, pre-Annenberg the 200 block of South McAlpin Street (looking north toward Walnut Street from 36th and Locust) was a cobblestoned stretch of humble brick, clapboard and stucco rowhomes. Penn already had a presence on the street.
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Michael Kelty
The Current Staff Photo credit: Mark Stehle WHO HE IS : Buyer, Computer Connection TIME AT PENN: 8 ½ years WHAT HE DOES: Kelty maintains merchandise levels, tracks trends and brings in new products. He also designs the Computer Connection ads that appear in the Daily Pennsylvanian and the Wharton Journal.
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Penn playwright puts on a pair of premieres
As Penn Theatre Arts students file into class for the first day of Bruce Graham’s playwriting workshop, they see one word chalked on the blackboard: “Want.” “My students get so sick of me saying, ‘What does this character want?’” says Graham, a playwright who has written for both stage and screen. “So I figure they might as well get used to that word from day one. Without strong wants you don’t have a strong play.”
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Penn Researchers Replace Organ in Adult Mice Using "Single-Parent" Stem Cells From Sperm or Egg Alone
PHILADELPHIA -- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine have derived uniparental embryonic stem cells - created from a single donor's eggs or two sperm - and, for the first time, successfully used them to repopulate a damaged organ with healthy cells in adult mice. Their findings demonstrate that single-parent stem cells can proliferate normally in an adult organ and could provide a less controversial alternative to the therapeutic cloning of embryonic stem cells.
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51 percent of women unmarried? Not quite, says prof
Experts said last month, for the first time, that more American women are living single than with a husband. The news analysis, conducted by four New York Times reporters and based on 2005 census results, stated that 51 percent of women claim to now be living without a spouse—a percentage that has increased from 35 percent in 1940 and 49 percent in 2000.
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Penn Students' "2nd Best Idea Slam" Invention Competition Set for Feb. 16
WHO: University of Pennsylvania studentsWHAT: "2nd Best Idea Slam" WHEN: Feb. 16, 20071-2:15 p.m.WHERE: University of Pennsylvania Levine Hall 3340 Walnut St.Weiss Tech House, Room 266
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Roy and Gretchen Jackson Endow Chair for Equine Disease Research at Penn Veterinary Medicine School
PHILADELPHIA - A $3 million gift from Roy and Gretchen Jackson, owners of Barbaro, will endow a chair in the name of Dean W. Richardson at the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
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University of Pennsylvania Researchers Find Link: Skin-Penetrating Parasites and Urocanic Acid
PHILADELPHIA - Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have found a link between parasites and skin secretions that contain urocanic acid. This research supports non-governmental organizations' advocacy to use "appropriate technology" to develop inexpensive and practical treatments to prevent infections and to ward off parasitic diseases in poor, developing countries, according to a report published in the January issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Public Health Activities at Penn Linked in New Center for Public Health Initiatives
PHILADELPHIA - The University of Pennsylvania has formed a Center for Public Health Initiatives to expand and link public-health activities across the campus. "In the United States and around the world, we have perceived an urgent need for thoughtful, well-trained public health professionals," Penn Provost Ron Daniels said. "Penn's sizeable strengths in genomics, informatics, community-based research, communication, global health, policy and law will help shape the activities of this important new center."