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Childhood Memories Shape Analysis of City Woes
Tom Sugrue's fifth birthday party was interrupted when everyone went to the front porch to see the National Guard troops being driven down the street to quell the Detroit riots in 1967. For many of the next 30 years, Sugrue has been studying what brought about those events on that day. "My parents didn't let us go out and play in front of our house, and for a 5 year old, not being allowed in the front yard is a daunting experience," he says. "I didn't fully understand why. I just knew something bad was happening."
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EBONICS: Penn Linguist Talks about the Talk
In testimony before a U.S. Senate subcommittee last week, University of Pennsylvania Professor of Linguistics William Labov weighed in with his views and his expertise about the controversy stirred up when the Oakland, Calif., school board passed a resolution to use Ebonics to teach African-American students reading and writing.
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Water in the Desert: Penn Professor Leads International Effort
Water may be considered an inexhaustible resource because the total supply of water in the biosphere is not affected by human activities. Water is not destroyed by human uses, although it may be held for a time in combination with other chemicals. To be useful, however, water must be in a particular place and of a certain quality, and so it must be regarded as a renewable, and often scarce, resource, with recycling times that depend on its location and use. --The Encyclopedia Britannica
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Cypriots Cross Virtual Green Line on Penn Web Site
There are no borders in cyberspace, no armed guards to check your papers as you pass from one computer to another. Which is why people seeking to bridge divisions between peoples and reunite divided lands have taken to promoting their efforts on the Internet. One of these divided lands is Cyprus, where for over two decades ethnic Turks and Greeks have been separated by a "Green Line" of barbed wire and hostility. Not even the love of their country that both groups share has been able to overcome the collective mistrust between the two groups.
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This Nurse Means Business
Starting out as a nurse practitioner -- nope, no one starts out as a nurse practitioner. Everyone starts by being born. Starting out at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania as an infant, and returning to Penn as a post doc, School of Nursing Professor Barbara Medoff-Cooper became a nurse practitioner and a nurse researcher who is part of a business based on her research, is doing reasearch based on her business, and it's all related to babies.
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Star Struck: Physics Grows Astronomically
Growing up in a big city like Baltimore, Elizabeth Raun never got a really good look at the stars and heavens -- all those street lights obscuring the skies. It wasn't until she got to another big city, Philadelphia, and Penn, that she got a really good look at what's up there. And now is hooked. Raun, a math and economics major, is required to take a course in the physical sciences to fulfill her graduation requirements. With some trepidation, she took Astronomy 1, a course designed for non-science majors. It turned out to be a lot more fun than she thought.
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Internet Interview of Rodin
Stop by the hippest magazine on the Internet for an on-line interview of President Judith Rodin. The Salon Magazine q&a, describing Rodin as "the moving force behind the Penn National Commission on Society, Culture and Community," discusses the causes and trends behind the apparent rise of incivility and polarization plaguing public discourse. The address is http://www.salon1999.com/news/news970108.html
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Well Said
The following quotes from Penn professors and others appeared in publications across the country and around the world. "The Christmas truce was the last twitch of the 19th century. It was the last public moment in which it was assumed that people were nice. It's the last gesture that human beings are getting better the longer the human race goes on. " --Paul Fussel, professor emeritus of English, commenting on how the German and British soldiers swapped food during the first Christmas of World War I (U.S. News and World Report, Monday, November 11).
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This Old House Needs 150 Service Calls a Day
Down in the basement of the Franklin Building Annex is the latest tool in the never ending battle to save university buildings from decay. It is a midrange computer that thinks the whole university is its own old house -- an old house composed of 124 buildings built between 1872 and 1996 and used by 50,000 patrons any day of the week.
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Neutrinos Materialize and Pack a Wallop
Some dead stars heavier than our sun move across outer space at 450 kilometers per second. Now physicists from Penn and CERN (a European high-energy physics lab) have suggested that the dead stars, or pulsars, were kicked to that speed by the puniest of all particles known to physicists: the neutrinos. What an unlikely candidate. Neutrinos are so puny they cannot push even our most sensitive detectors on Earth. Neutrinos simply fly through matter like ghosts fly through walls. How could they kick something they pass through like ghosts?