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Eating by the book—a no-fad diet for life

As a working mother of two, Lisa Hark knows what it’s like to have hungry kids in the car at the end of a long day, begging to stop at the Wawa for a donut. “Healthy food first,”is Hark’s mantra, and she’s often found that once the hunger pangs have been satisfied, the siren song of junk food fades off into the distance.

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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/.

Hearing voices

Poets, says Al Filreis, are a technologically savvy bunch. That’s one reason the Penn English professor is so optimistic about PennSound, the web-based sound archive he’s created with fellow English professor Charles Bernstein that makes MP3 files of poetry readings available to anyone who cares to download them.

Ask Benny: Are those Roman ruins really Roman?

Dear Benny, I often walk past the Chemistry Building and canít help but notice what seems to be a collection of some old Roman-looking columns sitting in a little courtyard. Are those actually Roman ruins? If so, where did they come from?—Curious about columns

Movable Feast: A fine array of soups to keep winter chills at bay

Whether we eat chicken soup when we’re sick, mulligatawny with our curry, or miso soup with a side of sushi, it’s clear that soup is truly a universal dish. Hot soup is a mainstay of small cafes, diners and fine restaurants everywhere, and in the winter, it seems to warm the belly like nothing else. Around Penn, you’ll find a wide array of fine soups—from the simple to the unique—at restaurants and food carts alike. Here’s a sampling.

Staff Q&A: Jane Nelson

If you find your patience tested by too many workday interruptions, try spending a morning with Jane Nelson.

Awards & Honors

JoAnn McCarthy is the new face of Penn’s international relations, as of March 1. McCarthy has been appointed Assistant Provost for International Affairs, and will work to develop and implement Penn’s global strategy, oversee initiatives to increase visibility in the international arena and encourage and promote international activities through the University, among other duties.

“They’re second-tier athletes who would like to be in the first tier.”

—H. Lee Sweeney, chairman of physiology at the Penn School of Medicine, on the athletes who e-mail him inquiring whether gene therapy could make them better. Gene therapy, some say, could becoming a new doping fad, but Sweeney and others warn the practice has its dangers. (The Toronto Star, Jan. 16, 2005)