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“Quaker Aesthetics: Reflections on a Quaker Ethic in American Design and Consumption”
The notion of a uniquely Quaker style in architecture, dress, and domestic interiors is a subject with which scholars have long grappled, since Quakers have traditionally held both an appreciation for high-quality workmanship and a distrust of ostentation. Early Quakers held “plainness” or “simplicity” as a virtue while still using fine material goods.
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Procedure cuts suffering from sinusitis
If you could compare suffering which do you think is worse—chronic lower back pain or chronic sinusitis? Surprisingly, the answer is sinusitis. “When it is severe and chronic,” explained David Kennedy, chairman of the department of Otorhinolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, “it can have greater impact on quality of life than such other common conditions that are recognized as debilitating, such as asthma, angina, chronic pulmonary disease and chronic lower back pain.”
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Artists frame solutions to myriad problems
If you’re looking for works by Penn artists only in museums and galleries, then you’re missing out. Beyond display cases and gallery walls, Graduate School of Fine Arts faculty and students are exercising their aesthetic sensibilities in the most unexpected places.
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Penn Historian Thomas Childers Follows an American Pilot's Journey
PHILADELPHIA -- In the summer of 1944, three young people, unknown to one another and separated by background and nationality, were hurled together by fate. They were an American bomber pilot, a young French schoolteacher and a British secret service agent; their lives were changed forever when their paths converged in a small village in France just after D-Day.
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Student performing arts groups keep campus theaters busy
Is it some kind of harmonic convergence that has made a cappella singing so popular with students at Penn? There’s a barbershop group, Penn Pipers; there’s a gospel group, The Inspiration; there’s even a Hindi group, Penn Masala. There are groups with catchy names like Chord On Blues and Pennsylvania Six-5000 and groups with musical names like Counterparts and Off the Beat. There are boy groups and girl groups and coed groups. There are 11 a cappella groups in all. But this year, there are 12 dance companies, surpassing the number of singing ensembles for the first time.
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Test drive for a College House makeover
The multi-year project to renovate Hamilton, Harrison and Harnwell College Houses is doing more than patching the concrete, replacing the windows and repairing the mechanical systems. The interiors are getting a makeover, too. And a big part of that makeover is new furniture. And when a large institution like Penn goes furniture shopping, it gets to ask for samples to try out.
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Staff Q&A: Ajay Nair
Ajay Nair has proved Thomas Wolfe wrong: You can go home again. But the West Philadelphia he has come back to is a different place from the neighborhood where he was born. “It’s so different. It’s really very beautiful,” he said. “It’s always had this element of beauty to it, but I think Penn has done some interesting things in the community to help beautify it and make it an attractive place.”
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“If you look just broadly at whether companies that lay off do better, the answer appears to be no.”
—Peter Cappelli, George W. Taylor Professor of Management and director of the Center for Human Resources at the Wharton School, on the effect of downsizing on corporate performance (The New York Times, Dec. 26)
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Supervisor reference serves a purpose
Illustration by Bo Brown
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Celebrate King's legacy
Martin Luther King Day is not just another day off from work. It’s a time to serve your community and your fellow Americans. The University of Pennsylvania is making it easy to serve by sponsoring a variety of service projects on the holiday, observed this year on Jan. 20. Projects include sprucing up buildings and grounds at two West Philadelphia public schools, sorting donated books for a literacy education program, making gifts for people in shelters and nursing homes and collecting food from local restaurants in Kensington to distribute to neighbors in need.