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A wise man tries myrrh
Philippe Szapary, assistant professor of general internal medicine, is a high-energy guy. He’s a lean-over-the-desk-at-you, talk-very-fast kind of guy. And he’s on a crusade to gain mainstream acceptance for alternative medical remedies.
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It was a very good year
As is customary at this time of year, “The World Cafe” spends the last half of December looking back at the year’s best, with programs devoted to the best performances and recordings of the year and encore broadcasts of favorite Cafe visits. There’s also a special event — a week-long celebration of Rounder Records on the label’s 30th anniversary. Thursday, Nov. 30 The Squirrel Nut Zippers bring the retro swing sounds of “Bedlam Ballroom” to the Cafe Friday, Dec. 1 Keb’ Mo’ visits Indre studios to perform music from his latest effort, “The Door”
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GSFA $
The Architecural Conservation Laboratory and Research Center of the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation in the Graduate School of Fine Arts has received a federal grant of $800,000 to study and conserve the Native American cliff dwellings in Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado. The dwellings are among the most significant and renowned of ancestral pueblo sites.
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A magical world premiere
The Philadelphia Dance Company — Philadanco! to its legions of fans around the world — kicks off the holiday season with a performance at the Annenberg Center Dec. 7-9. The program features the world premiere of “’Twas the Night Before Christmas,” a new work by internationally renowned choreographer Daniel Ezralow, whose recent work includes the choreography for Ron Howard’s film “The Grinch.” Given the passion and energy of Philadanco, this promises to be a magical event indeed.
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Dorms, housing, houses
The nostalgia of Homecoming Weekend found its antidote in a talk on the future of campus living. About 30 alums, students and architecture fans looked at slides and listened to how Hamilton Village — still referred to as Superblock — and the Quad will be transformed architecturally to support the around-the-clock community-living model that college houses offer.
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Help is here for child welfare woes
Children whose lives are touched by the country’s child welfare system have a new protector. Since September 1999, the Center for Children’s Policy, Practice and Research (CCPPR) has been working to help such children and the systems that deal with them.
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"Those who dabbled in the Web this time will have a competitive advantage next time around."
Steven Schneider, post-doctoral fellow at the Annenberg Public Policy Center, on the integration of the Internet into political campaigns (Dallas Morning News, Nov. 8)
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We were all broke singers and decided we wanted to do something for the community.
ÒIÕm a little bit of a Christmas music fanatic,Ó admits Carla Spataro. ÒI listen to it all the time. Ten years ago she turned this passion into an organization, the Voices For Children Foundation (VFCF), which has released six Christmas music recordings, given numerous holiday concerts, and raised more than $100,000 for children living with or impacted by AIDS.
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A Statistician's View on Ballot Recounts: More Is Better
PHILADELPHIA As the Bush and Gore campaigns debate whether further ballot recounts in Florida will yield a more or less exact result, Dennis M. DeTurck, Ph.D., professor of mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania, says that more ballot recounting not less is most likely to produce a statistically accurate outcome in the Florida election. Dr. DeTurck analysis indicates that to reach 95 percent certainty of the results in Florida, the votes would actually need to be counted roughly 16 times, with the 16 separate results then averaged.
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New Book Explores the Importance and Volatility of Moral Education
PHILADELPHIA - Two University of Pennsylvania professors have written a book that explores the often overlooked centrality of moral education in public schools and the controversies that surround both its premises and pedagogy. "The Moral Stake in Education: Contested Premises and Practices" by Joan Goodman and Howard Lesnick will be released in early December by Allyn and Bacon.