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Right hijacked faith, left dodged it

On the eve of the Presidential election, Jim Wallis’s six-year-old son looked up at him and said, “Daddy, this election is more important than Halloween, isn’t it?” And it was, Wallis told a standing-room only crowd at the Penn Bookstore Jan. 26. Almost as important, he said, was what happened after, when exit polls indicated that many people who had opted for Bush had voted on “moral values.”

Movable Feast: Drink options for the miserable winter months.

Winter is no time for a margarita. That much we know. Pina Coladas aren’t great February fare either, and Corona, we’re quite certain, is not suitable for drinking when the temperature is sub-freezing. But what exactly should you be drinking during these miserable winter months? That’s what we decided to find out. And, surprisingly, from chocolatey thick winter brews to piping hot cider drinks, we found plenty of winter drink options right here in University City. Maybe this quick guide will tide you over until spring which is, by the way, only 38 days away.

Staff Q&A: Leslie Kruhly

The Secretary of the University is one of those official sounding positions that many universities have on their list of senior administrators but few of us know much about. At Penn the incumbent of this august office is Leslie Kruhly, who has held the post since 2000.

At Work With...Nikki Cyter

Dalí the dreamer

When she began research on a book about Salvador Dalí Ingrid Schaffner says she was sometimes embarrassed to admit to people what she was working on. Though Dalí may beat even Picasso to the title of best-known-artist ever, his reputation in the art world has never caught up with his fame. The artist’s endless self promotion, his zeal for pop culture and his willingness to caricature himself were, says Schaffner, “all things artists weren’t supposed to do,” and consequently his stock has faltered among the high art cognoscenti.

Penn School of Design Partnering with City of Philadelphia and Philadelphia Daily News to Handle Legalized Gambling Issues

Penn School of Design Partnering with City of Philadelphia and Philadelphia Daily News to Handle Legalized Gambling IssuesWHO:Penn School of Design students, Philadelphia Daily News,Mayor John Street, architect Stan EckstutWHAT:Planning session about legalized gambling in PennsylvaniaWHEN:Feb. 10-13, 2005WHERE:University of Pennsylvania campusThe University of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia Daily News are partners in a project to work on city planning and design issues involving legalized gambling in Pennsylvania.  

Self-Assembled Nano-Sized Probes Allow Penn Researchers to See Tumors Through Flesh and Skin

PHILADELPHIA -- Nano-sized particles embedded with bright, light-emitting molecules have enabled researchers to visualize a tumor more than one centimeter below the skin surface using only infrared light.  A team of chemists, bioengineers and medical researchers based at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Minnesota has lodged fluorescent materials called porphyrins within the surface of a polymersome, a cell-like vesicle, to image a tumor within a living rodent.

News briefs

Women of color luncheon on tap

At Work With...La Tanya Love

What’s On

Performances/Lectures/Events   JAN. 27 - FEB. 9 Thursday, Jan. 27 TALKS   LET’S HAVE LUNCH: Writers House Program Coordinator Tom Devaney (“Letters to Ernesto Neto,” 2004) hosts a lunch and conversation from noon to 1 p.m. at Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk. RSVP required to wh@writing.upenn.edu. Info: 215-573-WRIT or www.writing.upenn.edu/~wh/.