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Readers' Best: Best treats for Halloween
As Halloween approaches, Penn staff and faculty are starting to fill the candy bowls on their desks with more than just the typical peppermints. We asked around to find out what staffers consider the best treats to give this Halloween. Chocolate won hands down, with seven votes for goodies ranging from Kit Kats to Tootsie Rolls. But not everyone has chocolate on their minds. Here are some other choices:
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Lady sings the blues, Cape Verde style
Cesaria Evora had been singing the distinctive Afro-Portuguese blues known as morna for decades, but it wasn’t until a young Frenchman of Cape Verdean descent invited her to record an album in Paris in 1988 that the world discovered her talent. Already a sensation in Europe, “the barefoot diva” is now gaining fans in the United States through her appearances on programs like “The Late Show with David Letterman.” Penn Presents brings her to Philadelphia for the first time for a concert Nov. 4 featuring songs from her latest album, “São Vicente,” a tribute to her home town.
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Ed sec praises research
U.S. Secretary of Education Roderick Paige came to Penn Oct. 10 to praise an international education research project and to get a good word in for his boss’s education agenda. Paige delivered those messages to the international panel of researchers who participated in the Six Nations Education Research Project, a seven-year project led by the Graduate School of Education.
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Crime busters
Former Attorney General Janet Reno and Philadelphia Police Commissioner John F. Timoney were both on hand to receive awards at the dedication of the Jerry Lee Center of Criminology Oct. 15. The ceremony recognized both Reno’s and Timoney’s work in research-based crime prevention. Founded last year with an initial $5 million gift from the Jerry Lee Foundation, the center has undertaken projects such as a $3.5 million contract with the English government to introduce and test “restorative justice” for serious adult offenses in London, Oxfordshire and the Newcastle area.
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Test yourself on Mr. Grossbach’s neighborhood
Check off how many of these cool spots west of campus you know. We got the list from long-time neighborhood denizen Barry Grossbach, executive vice president of the Spruce HIll Community Association. See if you’re an Official West Phillyphile or maybe just a U. City Newbie. Woodlands Cemetery, Woodland Avenue and 40th Street, resting spot of artist Thomas Eakins and Penn Dental School founder Thomas Evans.
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Report from Ground Zero
After a delay at the Lincoln Tunnel for a bomb scare, we arrived at the Javits Convention Center, the base of operations (called the “BOO”), at about midnight Sept. 11. By 3 a.m. we were ready to go to work. The team was divided into the day shift and the night shift. It was decided that local veterinary care would be harder to obtain at night, so I was on the night shift. The night search dogs were
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Minority children can have a dream—of dentistry
Neither A. Melissa Lopez (C’99,D’02) nor Jimmy Morrison (D’03) dreamed of being a dentist growing up. Well, they both say that hardly anyone dreams of growing up a dentist. But the two dental students, after observing the low numbers of minorities training for dentistry, want to plant that dream in the hearts of young minorities.
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Lifesaver Can playing a computer game prevent someone from having a heart attack? Thanks to Barry G. Silverman, professor of systems engineering and creator of the Heart-Sense game, it can. The 15-minute game begins with a conversation between an emergency worker and an individual experiencing severe chest pains. Players then enter a fictitious village to witness people with chest pains and symptoms of heart attack. In follow-up questionnaires, those who played the game said they are now more likely to seek help in the event of heart attack symptoms.
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Government pumps $6.7 million into circulatory research
- The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute has awarded $6.7 million over five years to Penn’s Institute for Medicine and Engineering. The grant will promote the study of cellular and molecular mechanisms in blood vessels that regulate physiological processes in the cardiovascular system. Led by IME Director Peter F. Davies, the investigation will also test new therapies for heart valve calcification, blood clotting disorder and the weakening and rupture of blood vessels.
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Who’s the boss? Maybe not Papa.
One of the cleavages in American society has just gotten bigger—that’s according to Andrew Hacker, professor of political science at Queens College. At the annual Sackler Lecture hosted by the Sociology Department on Oct. 4 Hacker talked about the “growing gulf between men and women.” An expert in the dividing lines of America, he has published works on racial and class distinctions. Hacker now seeks to shatter the myth that men and women are balancing partners.