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Illustration by Bo Brown Columns Ask Benny: Harvard or Penn? Which stadium is older? Out and About: Reading the leaves
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Viola, lap steel guitar and banjo, along with piano, traditional percussion and lovely, delicate vocals, make up the sound of local musicians Buried Beds, named “Best Band 2004” by Philadelphia Magazine. The group fuses an indie rock sensibility with the sorrow and beauty of Appalachian songwriting. One review called the music “angsty, heart-on-the-sleeve melancholia that sounds both winsome and wise.” These successful locals—part of the West Philly denizen of musicians, artists and creative types who make up the New Planet Collective—play two shows in very different venues this month.
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Columns Ask Benny: Harvard or Penn? Which stadium is older? Out and About: Reading the leaves
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By JUDY HILL New plan for Penn Museum Getting it right for radio
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PHILADELPHIA The educational institution Benjamin Franklin envisioned more than 250 years ago that became the University of Pennsylvania will celebrate its founder with "Ben, Penn & You," an eclectic series of talks, exhibits, both actual and virtual, and musical performances.All Franklin-related activities at Penn are open to the public.
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PHILADELPHIA -- The Fels Institute of Government at the University of Pennsylvania will offer a special homeland-security course this spring, enabling students to work as special staff members to a Philadelphia government task force examining the city's homeland-security preparations. Harvey Rubin, professor of medicine and computer science and an expert in homeland security, bioterrorism and infectious diseases, will teach the course. "Homeland Security in Philadelphia" will focus on assessing the city's plans for dealing with catastrophes.
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PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania's Fels Institute of Government today released two reports on the state of election administration in the U.S. that show a failure by local boards of election to answer voter questions on Election Day. The findings are detailed in the final reports on hotline data from the MYVOTE1 project, the largest-ever national election hotline conducted during the November 2004 U.S. presidential election and the 2005 elections in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.
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PHILADELPHIA -- As part of a federally funded program on electronic security, engineers at the University of Pennsylvania have discovered flaws in wiretapping technology that could allow parties being wiretapped to disable the recording and monitoring of their calls.
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PHILADELPHIA -- Laurie O. Robinson, director of the criminology master of science program at the University of Pennsylvania and a former U.S. assistant attorney general, has been elected chair of the board of trustees of the Vera Institute of Justice. She has also been named to a new national commission looking at justice issues at the nexus of science and law.
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PHILADELPHIA-- Two University of Pennsylvania students have won two of the country's most prestigious scholarships.Brett Shaheen, a senior from St. Louis, Mo., has been named a Rhodes Scholar, and Aziza Zakhidova, a senior from McKinney, Texas, has won a Marshall Scholarship. Only 32 Rhodes Scholarships and 40 Marshall Scholarships are awarded nationally each year.