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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?
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Call to Action from New Recreation Chief
A bowling tournament. A golf outing. A fishing rodeo. And there's more coming. And you can find out about it and sign up for activities on the new Recreation Department home page, http://www.upenn.edu/recreation. All this is part of Mike Diorka's plan. Enthusiasm bursting from every pore, Diorka this year assumed the position of Penn's head of Recreation. With major plans to restructure the department, he expects to make recreation a more visible aspect of campus life.
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Habla Chino o Arabe?
Enrollments in Chinese and Arabic college courses are growing faster than enrollments in other foreign languages, with Spanish enrollments also increasing significantly. These are among the findings of the Modern Language Association of America's (MLA) 18th annual study of foreign language enrollment.
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The French Paradox and the Consumption of Alcohol
Smoking. Hypertension. Lack of exercise. A high-fat diet. All of these things can lead to coronary heart disease (CHD). Yet the French, who are no strangers to these risk factors, suffer the lowest level of heart disease in the Western World. This is known as "The French Paradox." On April 22, Serge Renaud, the scientist who solved this paradox, came to Penn to discuss his findings. Renaud is the researcher who identified the connection between France's low CHD mortality rates and the moderate and regular consumption of alcoholic beverages.
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Rich Bonfiglio named new men’s tennis coach
Bonfiglio began his coaching career at Trinity in 2011 and coached at Ithaca, Amherst, the University of San Diego, Columbia, and USC before coming to Penn.
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The stories of a war-scarred Colombian rainforest
Through her research, Kristina Lyons, associate professor of anthropology, is relaying the tales of the land’s suffering, as well as its enduring practical and spiritual importance to its residents.
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Maya Weekend
International scholars, Maya enthusiasts, artists, linguists, archaeologists and others will come together for the 28th Annual Maya Weekend on April 9-11, at Penn’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 3620 South St.
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On the ice with Flyers legends and fresh young hopefuls
An Alumni Charity Game at the Class of 1923 Arena celebrated a $7 million gift from Snider Youth Hockey Foundation and Flyers Alumni with a friendly hockey game among the Snider team and former Flyers.