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Buildings bloom in building boom
Be careful where you walk these days, lest you bump into a backhoe. Yesterday’s empty lot is now sprouting bricks. And it seems that every time you sneeze, there’s a groundbreaking. In case you haven’t noticed it yet, the campus is in the middle of the biggest building boom since the 1960s. And like the previous binge, this one will also produce a dramatically different Penn.
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Child welfare’s dirty secret
On an early June morning, an 8-month-old girl was taken to a Florida emergency room, where she died four hours later. Investigators found the baby’s family had been the focus of nine child abuse reports in the past four years. The mother was charged with beating the baby to death. At no time had the baby or her four siblings been removed from the home, nor had anyone considered terminating the mother’s parental rights.
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Researcher “reverse engineers” the mind
Never mind how the mind works. For many of the audience members shoehorned into 17 Logan Hall, the more pressing question was whether the sound system worked on Oct. 20, when Stephen Pinker, director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at MIT, explained to the crowd “How the Mind Works.”
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Little flies suggest big cures
For lonely night owls married to early birds, a new day may be about to dawn. Some new basic research conducted at the Medical Center on fruit flies may one day help scientists to reset the internal clocks of humans.
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A lot of Moxy on the World Cafe
Seems “The World Cafe” can’t get enough of Moxy Fruvous. The cheeky Canadians, an audience favorite at last year’s Singer/Songwriter Weekend, are featured yet again on Nov. 2 when the Cafe re-airs their earlier studio visit. But there’s plenty that’s new these next two weeks, too, including releases by Afro-Celt Sound System and the Indigo Girls. Here’s the complete rundown: Thursday, Oct. 28 Modern day bluesman Joe Louis Walker drops in to perform music from “Silvertone Blues”
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40-year gala
Theres no bad time for dessert, proclaimed Annenberg Dean Kathleen Hall Jamieson.
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Slumber party
Resident advisor Brett Weinheimer (W00), top left, with students from Pennsylvania Governors School for International Studies and other high school seniors. Weinheimer, known for his school spirit, invited the students to camp out in the Quad last month to learn more about Penn. Photo by Daniel R. Burke
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A scholar and jazz musician hits the high notes
BY SONO MOTOYAMA Blaustein performing at the Writers House Photo by Daniel R. Burke
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NFL championship of the century
BY KATIE ALEX As January 1, 2000, looms in the not so distant future, some folks may be prompted to question if the Y2K issue is just hype.
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Clay Armstrong
When Clay Armstrong was in medical school at Washington University in the late 50s, he quickly grew bored. He failed to see nice reasoning chains, that one thing was connected to the other. His search for elegant scientific models eventually led him to research in electrophysiology and an intense interest in the work of 1963 Nobelists A.L. Hodgkin and A.F. Huxley.