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"Sutton Hoo: Burial Ground of Kings?"
Martin Carver $29.50 cloth; 224 pages; 126 illustrations The Sutton Hoo ship-burial is one of the most significant archaeological finds ever made in Europe. In the late 500s and 600s, an East Anglian kingdom along the southeastern coast of England created an extravagant pagan ceremonial center as an attempt to stem the rising tide of Christianity. One of the mounds contained an ancient ship used as a mausoleum, a tradition later associated with the Vikings.
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Stick it to me
You slapped them all over your notebook when you were in high school. You've probably got a few on your window, or maybe on your refrigerator door. But what are all those stickers doing in an art gallery?
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Susan Fuhrman
Most people in the neighborhood near Penn have thought a good public school would encourage young families to live in the area. But now that planning for just such a school is underway, some neighbors have begun to worry. Will the new school impoverish the programs of other area schools that have a measure of success?
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United they stand
A program that united eight Jewish and eight African-American Penn students to learn about each others' history and culture won an award at the 1998 Shusterman Hillel International Professional Staff Conference in Princeton, N.J.
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Moot, not mute
In the Law School's Keedy Cup moot court competition, Jan. 28, Andrea M. Ortbals (left) won as best oralist, and Thomas Wallerstein and Mala Ahuja won as the best team. They argued a challenge to the constitutionality of the "Gang Congregation Ordinance" enacted by Chicago in 1992. In the case of the City of Chicago vs. Morales, Ortbals (with Prof.
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They make us melt
The movies that melt our Valentine's Day chocolates are not the same for everyone. So we sent our writer out to Locust Walk and also into cyberspace to find out what our readers watch to inspire romance. We've struggled to preview these for you, and surprisingly enough, we found that while most of them made Tootsie Rolls Pops melt in our mouths, others froze our ice cubes ... so no guarantees. For better or for worse, in sickness and in health, these movies are our valentine to you, dear readers.
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Merchant tickles ivories
Actually, we don't know whether Natalie Merchant will actually play the piano when she visits Tongue & Groove Studios on "The World Cafe" Feb. 19; you'll have to tune in and find out. There's plenty of other great stuff to tune into as well these next two weeks: Thursday, Feb. 11 Cake talks with David Dye and performs music from their latest album, "Prolonging the Magic" Friday, Feb. 12 Rusted Root perform songs from their self-titled recent album at the Tin Angel
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Mad genes blur lines between psychology and neuroscience
American health providers may bicker about socialized medicine, but researchers who plunder the wealth of health data foreign states keep could easily quiet them down. Tyrone Cannon, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology, is one of those researchers. Cannon and others take advantage of statistics in the databases of Scandinavian health systems to conduct comprehensive studies that would be otherwise nigh impossible. Over the past 15 years Cannon's own work has helped to change the way schizophrenia is viewed.
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"In The Blood: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race"
Melbourne Tapper $22.50 cloth, 160 pages Although we now know that sickle cell anemia strikes individuals from a variety of backgrounds, the disease has been labeled throughout the 20th century as a "black" one. Melbourne Tapper, professor of anthropology at the University of Texas, examines how this came to be in his new book.
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Flexible work options pay off
Are your employees feeling stressed-out, overworked and underappreciated? Try this simple remedy: let them decide when they will show up for work. The School of Medicine's Office of Architecture and Facilities Management did, and it found that letting employees schedule themselves made the work flow better and improved morale to boot.