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Expert Comment on the Role of Veterinarians in Stopping The Spread of Avian Influenza
Expert Comment on the Role of Veterinarians in Stopping The Spread of Avian Influenzafrom the University of PennsylvaniaNote to TV producers and assignment editors: The University of Pennsylvania has an on-campus television studio with live-shot capability for interviews with Penn experts.Gary Smith, a professor of population biology and epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, is an expert on public health and the spread of disease between animals and humans.
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Genetic Therapy Reverses Nervous System Damage in Animal Model of Inherited Human Disease
PHILADELPHIA -- By injecting a therapeutic gene directly into the brain, researchers have treated a naturally occurring genetic disease in cats. This is the first genetic disease affecting the central nervous system to be successfully treated in an animal larger than mice and rats. If this approach can be successfully applied to humans, say the researchers, it might one day treat an entire class of diseases called lysosomal storage disorders, which cause severe, sometimes fatal, disabilities in about one in 5,000 births.
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Expert Comment on Corporate Culture Leading to Corporate Scandal
Expert Comment on Corporate Culture Leading to Corporate Scandalfrom the University of Pennsylvania Law SchoolMar. 8, 2005David Skeel, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania, teaches, researches and writes about corporate and bankruptcy lawHe can talk about the corporate culture that's led to the scandals at corporations such as WorldCom, HealthSouth and Enron.Professor Skeel says:
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Penn Police to Host Skating Event for City's 23 PAL Centers March 16 at Class of '23 Ice Rink
WHO: Approximately 270 children and youths who attend sessions at the 23 Police Athletic League Centers throughout Philadelphia will be special guests of the University of Pennsylvania Division of Public Safety. Also scheduled to take part are University President Amy Gutmann, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Sylvester Johnson, Penn Vice President of Public Safety Maureen Rush and Penn Police Chief Mark Dorsey.
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Sociologists Explore Why Low-Income Women Have Out-of-Wedlock Births
PHILADELPHIA-- In the forthcoming book "Promises I Can Keep," sociologists Kathryn Edin, of the University of Pennsylvania, and her co-author Maria Kefalas, of Saint Joseph's University, bash the myth that low-income mothers value marriage less than their middle-class counterparts.
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Stacking the deck in Philly’s favor
Gaming is coming to Philadelphia. Legislation passed last summer in Harrisburg has paved the way for the city to receive two 5,000-slot-machine gaming parlors by 2007, and City Hall has no legal say in their location or design. That’s the bad news. The silver lining—other than the promised wage tax cuts parlor profits will yield—is that Penn Design students are getting involved in finding a slot solution for the city.
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Movable Feast: Eat your breakfast!
Breakfast. It’s the most important meal of the day. It’s the vital sustenance that gets you going first thing in the morning and keeps you going until the sweet relief that is lunch. Skip your breakfast, doctors say, and you’re asking for trouble. University City offers plenty of options for the discerning breakfaster who left the house with an empty stomach. Here are some of the highlights. On the cheap
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Greening boosts home prices—here’s the proof
RESEARCH/Wharton professor comes up with the facts and figures that show neighborhood greening is a sound investment. Flowers, as you’d expect, take center stage at the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s annual Flower Show. But as you wander the rose-scented aisles this year (March 6-13), you may notice a small booth that features nothing floral at all but showcases some of the most important work done by PHS—the greening of Philadelphia.
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Cookbooks
If you’re crazy about food and the master chefs and experts behind some of your favorite dishes, then mark your calendars from March 11 through 20 for the regional celebration, “KitchenAid The Book and The Cook.” In the neighborhood, three venues will be turned into food havens: the Penn Museum (3260 South St.), World Café Live (3025 Walnut St.) and Abbraccio (820 S. 47th St.). For a complete list of events, go to www.thebookandthecook.com. Friday, March 11
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Catholics left in limbo?
Popes do not retire. They have been forced out of office and have died while in office, but only one sitting pope, Pope Celestine V, has ever resigned his office, doing so in 1294. “ Dante called it ‘The Great Refusal,’” says E. Ann Matter, professor and chair of Penn’s Department of Religious Studies. “It touched off the debate, afterward, of whether the papacy was an office for life or if a pope could resign. And nobody has since resigned. … It sort of made the idea that the nature of the papacy is a lifetime commitment, and you just don’t step away from it.”