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Vintage Western
“The World Cafe’s” lineup these next two weeks has a decidedly Western flavor, with featured performances by Asleep at the Wheel, Denise Franke and New Grange. But the Cafe folks are never the types to stay in one place long, as the rest of the schedule should make clear. Thursday, Jan. 20 Rock n’ roll Renaissance man Marshall Crenshaw talks and performs music from his latest album, “#447”
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“The New Working Woman’s Guide to Retirement Planning: Saving and Investing Now for a Secure Future”
Martha Priddy Patterson 320 pages, $19.95 paper A recent review in USA Today put Martha Priddy Patterson’s goal succinctly: “‘The New Working Woman’s Guide to Retirement Planning’ is a wake-up call for women.” Patterson, director of benefits analysis for Deloitte and Touche, wrote this straightforward and easy-to-follow guide to retirement planning for women because she noted several facts: Only 21 percent of working women over 40 expect to receive, or are receiving, retirement benefits.
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From Walnut Street to Wall Street
Since last spring, Sound Horse Technologies has been marketing a better horseshoe. Based on the work of the School of Veterinary Medicine’s Dr. Robert Sigafoos and others, the shoe is glued onto a horse’s foot rather than being nailed on, and it prevents horses from going lame. The fledgling company is doing well. “The reason the business is so successful is because I’m not directly involved,” Sigafoos said. “The inventing part is the easy part. Getting an idea from being an invention to getting it into the marketplace takes the real knowledge.”
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Internet access to change
With 14,000 people clamoring for its 1,080 modems, the University’s modem pool is “facing technological obsolescence.” That was the message Jim O’Donnell, Vice Provost of Information Systems and Computing and Professor of Classical Studies, told a near-capacity crowd gathered at College Hall Dec. 1 to discuss a proposal to close down its modem pool by July 1, 2001.
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The Bug is a no-show
7 p.m.: The Emergency Operations Center (EOC) at Penn Police Headquarters opens for the evening. Having watched the new millennium arrive in more time zones than I can remember, and knowing that all of the ATM machines in the Republic of Tonga are still operating, dispensing puka shells or whatever passes for currency, I settle in for what promises to be a long, uneventful New Year’s Eve.
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“Some fathers kill their own children because they don’t want to cause them pain.”
Richard Gelles, Joanne T. and Raymond B. Welsh Professor of Child Welfare and Family Violence, on why men kill their own family members (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Jan. 2)
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"Eastern gurus are not the easiest people to work with — they’re not for everybody."
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New VP for Finance and Treasurer of the University
Craig Carnaroli (W’85) has been named Vice President for Finance and Treasurer of the University. As Vice President for Finance and Treasurer, Carnaroli oversees the offices of the Comptroller, Treasurer, Investments, Student Financial Services, Risk Management, Research Services and Acquisition Services.
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Ann Burgess
Bespectacled and dressed in a conservative suit, as you might expect of the sensible Yankee that she is, Ann Burgess, the van Ameringen Professor of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, doesn’t look like someone who has probed the depths of the criminal mind. You would never guess that this level-headed middle-aged woman has worked with the FBI, and has been on the scene of horrific crimes; she’s dealt with the distraught victims of rapes and sexual assaults; and she’s struggled to understand why criminals do what they do.
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Bigwig writers to share life and work
Grace Paley, Robert Creeley and John Edgar Wideman will come to campus this semester as part of the Kelly Writers House Fellows project. The focus of their visit will be an undergraduate seminar, Contemporary American Writing, taught by Al Filreis, Class of 1942 Professor of English and faculty director of Writers House. “We will be reading the work of the writers, and then students will have a two-day experience with the writers,” Filreis explained.