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Street smart
Photo credit: Candace diCarlo It’s not every day, Anne Papageorge knows, that one is given the opportunity to change of the face of an entire city. But Papageorge has been fortunate to do just that for much of the past two decades.
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Ensemble
Ko Im WHAT: A medley of instruments guest-curated by Christian Marclay, a leading figure in performance, visual art and avant garde music. Hear a delightful cacophony of wind chimes, then enjoy a quiet reprise of “Moonlight Sonata” from a sixteen 18-note Reuge music box mechanism across the room.
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A call for change
While stories of voter fraud, suppression and malfeasance abounded on the election days in 2004 and 2006, the biggest problems on at the polls actually had to do with something far more routine—poor administration.
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Students tackle Curating 101
When you pass by the Fresh Grocer building at 40th and Walnut later this month (at right) and Fisher-Bennett Hall next month, be sure to look up.
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Study links obesity, absenteeism
Andrew Geier says his new study shows that body-mass index (BMI) is a more accurate predictor of school absenteeism than any other single factor. Photo credit: Candace diCarlo Childhood obesity may be more than just a health risk. It may also, apparently, be keeping kids out of school.
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Hal Mackin
The Current Staff Photo credit: Mark Stehle WHO HE IS: Manager of Levy Tennis Pavilion and a tennis pro. TIME AT PENN: In his current position, since 1990, though he’s worked as a tennis pro since 1980.
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With $2.3M grant, profs take aim at lung cancer
Cigarette smoke contains nearly 4,000 chemicals, some of them highly carcinogenic, and so doctors have long known that smoking greatly increases the risk of lung cancer. In fact, nearly 90 percent of all lung cancer cases are caused by cigarettes. What scientists don’t know, however, is why only 1 in 10 smokers—and not a much higher percentage—actually develop the disease.
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Study suggests shorter hours for residents are safer
When Kevin Volpp was a resident at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, he once worked nearly 40 straight hours. It was nothing out of the ordinary. For medical residents throughout the country, such 40-hour stretches and 100-hour workweeks weren’t at all uncommon until new national requirements, enacted in 2003, finally capped work weeks at 80 hours and limited shifts to a maximum of 24 consecutive hours.
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Van Pelt Library
Photo credit: University Archives It’s almost impossible to imagine Penn, or at least College Green, without the Van Pelt Library.
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International Conference on Gender, War and Militarism, to Be Held at Penn Oct. 25-26
PHILADELPHIA -- The Alice Paul Center for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality at the University of Pennsylvania will host an international conference, "Gender, War, and Militarism," Oct. 25-26 at Penn. "This event will be the first truly major conference to consider the crucial gender-related issues in contemporary conflicts including genocidal rape, women and child soldiers and women as peace activists and is, by far, the most international in scope to date," Shannon Lundeen, associate director of the Center, said.