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Founded in 1937 by choreographer Pavlo Virsky, the Virsky Ukranian National Dance Company has been celebrating the culture of the Ukranian people with its soaring routines for decades—and earning rave reviews in the process.
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Just five years after a players’ strike cancelled the World Series, at a time when baseball fans were as disillusioned as ever and the nation’s ballparks were left half-empty, Bob Costas decided it was time to speak up.
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PHILADELPHIA The University of Pennsylvania has announced an invention contest that offers something of which its founder, inveterate inventor Benjamin Franklin, could only dream: cash and free licensing representation. PennVention is a contest for Penn students looking to develop, patent and commercialize their inventions. The Weiss Tech House, a Penn gathering place that supports students in developing new technologies, is sponsoring the event and will offer mentoring opportunities for the contestants.
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WHO:Bobby Muller, founder, Vietnam Veterans of America, co-founder International Campaign to Ban LandminesWHAT:"Tour of Duty" public lectureWHEN: 7 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2004 WHERE: Zellerbach Theatre, 3680 Walnut St., PhiladelphiaIn his "Tour of Duty" lecture, Bobby Muller will discuss American foreign policy, the prospect of a military draft and citizen engagement in foreign affairs.
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PHILADELPHIA-- Suzan Shown Harjo, a leading Native American rights advocate, journalist, poet and president of The Morning Star Institute, a national Indian rights organization, will be the inaugural speaker in a year-long, four-part seminar series, "Dialogues Across Indian Country," sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania's Provost Seminar Fund. The "Dialogues" series is a collaborative project of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Penn's departments of Anthropology and History and Graduate School of Education.
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PHILADELPHIA-- The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology will hold "Smiles, Laughter and Friends," its ninth annual Peace Around the World Dec. 5 from 1 to 4:30 p.m. It's a free, multicultural, family-oriented afternoon with choir music plus international music and dancing, international cartoons, holiday card and craft making, magic, exotic face-painting, a treasure hunt, free treats for children and more. Attendees can get special reduced-rate parking in Penn Garage 7, Convention Avenue at South Street.
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PHILADELPHIA -- Cuts in social services and chronic poverty in U.S. cities and rural areas during the '90s have caused the U.S. to lag behind nearly all of Europe and several other countries in terms of overall social progress, according to the 2004 "Report Card on World Social Progress" by Richard Estes, a University of Pennsylvania School of Social Work professor.
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EXPERT COMMENT FOR PENDING U.S. SUPREME COURT RULINGSfrom the University of Pennsylvania Law SchoolWhether the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines are unconstitutional because they allow a judge to increase a sentence based on issues that were never presented to a juryPaul Robinson, professor of lawAreas of expertise: Criminal law, criminal code reform, criminal sentencing. He is the former commissioner (1986-88) of the U.S. Sentencing Commission.
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PHILADELPHIA -- University of Pennsylvania Professor Wayne Worrell has received the 2004 Edward Goodrich Acheson Award at the 206th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society. The award consists of a gold medal and $10,000. Worrell, who joined the faculty in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in Penn School of Engineering and Applied Sciences in 1965, received the award in recognition of his scientific achievements and outstanding service to the materials-science community.
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Newspapers and television news stations have been reporting for weeks about the shortage of influenza vaccines in the U.S.—and Americans’ sometimes frantic attempts to get a flu shot. But just how big a deal is this national shortage? According to Dr. Neil Fishman, an expert in infectious diseases at Penn, it’s a very big deal indeed. And the worst part is, he says, it could have easily been avoided.