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It starts with Texas hold ’em
RESEARCH/Card gambling among teenage boys and young men is growing rapidly, and that’s a cause for worry, says this public policy researcher. With March Madness in full swing, many are finding themselves drawn into office pools or logging onto the online betting bonanza that now accompanies the three-week college basketball tournament. For most, it’s a once-a-year foray into the high thrills world of betting. For others, it’s one more opportunity to indulge a regular gambling habit.
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Down by the river
April, they say, is the cruelest month. This year March proved equally baleful, teasing us one day with 70-degree temperatures only to plunge us back into winter the next for another bout of bitter winds. It was on one of those out-of-the-blue balmy days that our thoughts turned to Schuylkill River Park.
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Jacquelyn Taylor-Powell
WHO SHE IS: Coordinator of the PennSmiles program in Penn Dental’s Department of Community Oral Health. YEARS AT PENN: 9; nearly 4 with the PennSmiles Van.
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For The Record: The good doctor
By THE CURRENT STAFF When Dr. Isidor Schwaner Ravdin received orders to head to Assam, India, in January of 1943, he had little idea of what awaited. But just as he had throughout an impressive medical career, he persevered—and excelled.
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Cover story: Designing for the Delta
The debate over the future of New Orleans can’t begin and end with the levees. If Hurricane Katrina taught us anything, says Anuradha Mathur, it’s that we need to change the way we look at our landscapes—especially those prone to flooding. “What if you started to rethink the rebuilding of New Orleans as if there were no levees?” For about six months after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast, Anuradha Mathur avoided the debates about the future of New Orleans. Instead, she listened.
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B.S. at Dean's lecture
Though The New York Times never printed its whole name, “On Bullshit” leapt to the top of its bestseller list last year, surprising nobody more than its author, Harry Frankfurt. A distinguished moral philosopher who taught at Princeton before retiring in 2000, Frankfurt was at Penn March 23 to deliver the 2006 Dean’s Forum Lecture. Frankfurt became intrigued by the concept of bullshit, he told a capacity crowd, because he realized he “wasn’t really sure what it meant.” Writing “On Bullshit” helped him clarify its meaning as well as its role in modern society.
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Movable Feast: Lo mein
By THE CURRENT STAFF Lo mein is the meat-and-potatoes of Chinese food. It is simple, tasty and filling. And most every Chinese food place on the planet serves it. They just don’t all serve it the same way.That’s what we found during a recent survey of the shrimp lo meins served by some of University City’s most popular Chinese food trucks. We had expected to have trouble telling one dish from the other—how many ways are there to prepare a basic shrimp-and-veggie stir fry?—but were surprised to find variation in just about every facet of the dish.
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Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham’s latest book, “Specimen Days,” is really three novellas linked by several common characters—a young boy, an older man and a young woman—and the American poet Walt Whitman. Sound like an ambitious work? Well, Cunningham has done it before. His novel “The Hours,” for which he won both the PEN/Faulkner Award and Pulitzer Prize, seamlessly tied together the lives of three women and Virginia Woolf’s seminal work, “Mrs.
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Staff Q&A: Andrew Zitcer
Andrew Zitcer’s charge as Penn’s Cultural Asset Manager is to look after the real estate in Penn’s portfolio that don’t fall under the traditional headings of commercial, residential or retail spaces.These include The Rotunda, a community performing arts venue that Zitcer, a Penn alum, wrote undergraduate and graduate theses about; the Slought Foundation art gallery; internationally renowned artist Osvaldo Romberg’s studio; the newly relocated Scribe Video Center; the 40th Street artist-in-residency program and The Cinema, programmed with community events and film screenings.
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Nurses need to know how to ‘walk both worlds’
MUSIC/A School of Nursing course teaches future nurse practitioners how to navigate the world of alternative and complementary medicine. Whether it’s black cohosh to quell hot flashes or yoga to soothe arthritis, more and more people are looking beyond the pharmacy shelves to cure what ails them.