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Out and About: On the face of it
If you grew up looking at National Geographic you probably have a favorite image, or at least one that took hold of your childish imagination and wouldn’t let go. For Louise Krasniewicz it was a picture of an African woman with dozens of rings around her neck. “The thing that impressed me,” says Krasniewicz, a senior research scientist at Penn Museum, “was that if they took the rings off, their necks would collapse and they would die.”
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For The Record: Totally wired
We know that bigger doesn’t necessarily mean better—or faster—but 60 years ago, it meant exactly that. ENIAC, or Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, developed by Penn physics professor John W. Mauchly and graduate student J. Presper Eckert, Jr., was an engineering and computing marvel. In its time, ENIAC was the largest single electronic apparatus in the world: It filled the entire basement of the Moore School of Electrical Engineering.
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Ahead of the Current: International Children's Festival
Here’s a Penn perk you should definitely know about if you have children. With your PennCard you can get a handsome discount on tickets to the Philadelphia International Children’s Festival (April 30-May 6), the oldest—and surely one of the best—of its kind in the U.S. The acts change every year, but you can always count on at least one acrobatic circus spectacular and one theatrical piece of such zaniness you’ll feel you’ve bought a one-way ticket out of your workaday world—and may lose all desire to return anytime soon.
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Putting controversy in ‘context’
PANEL/Experts discuss press freedom, cultural clashes and the causes of the Muhammad cartoon mess. Top Stories Penn responds to avian flu threat
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A homecoming for Dr. Gutmann
President Amy Gutmann took to the dance floor on a recent visit to India, where she met with alumni and friends of Penn in Mumbai. Gutmann hosted a January 5 alumni event that drew more than 300 people and featured a magnificent performance by the Penn student a capella group Penn Masala, which traveled from Philadelphia for the event. Later in the week, Gutmann was the capstone speaker at the Wharton Global Alumni Forum, also in Mumbai, where she told the audience how this was literally a homecoming: Her father fled Nazi Germany in 1934 and found refuge in Mumbai.
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The fastest game on two feet
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Movable Feast: Let them eat cake
By THE CURRENT STAFF Columns Ask Benny: What's the reason for those propane tanks?
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What's the reason for those propane tanks?
Illustration by Bo Brown Ask Benny: What's the reason for those propane tanks? Out and About: On the face of it
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Foster to speak in May
By THE CURRENT STAFF Top Stories Penn responds to avian flu threat
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Staff Q&A: Bob Gutowski
STAFF Q&A/Bob Gutowski shares his love of nature as head of Morris Arboretum’s public programs. “You’ve never seen an evening gown that’s as beautiful as a cedar waxwing.” Bob Gutowski paid his first visit to Penn’s Morris Arboretum in the 1960s when he was making ends meet with landscaping jobs. “My employer came out here to ask some questions of the rose gardener,” he recalls. “It was like going into a Dickens novel. I have a dim memory of huge overgrown honeysuckles.”