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New garden ready to take root at Morris Arboretum
What better way to remember a plant lover than to design a garden in his honor? That was the thinking behind the J.L. Pennock Garden, currently under construction between the Garden Railway and the Rose Garden at Penn’s Morris Arboretum. J. Liddon Pennock, in whose memory the garden is being created and whose endowment gift to the Arboretum will help maintain it, died last spring at the age of 90. For most of his life, he ran the family business, a Center City flower shop that provided floral decorations for countless society weddings as well as the Nixon White House.
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Out & About: Tune in to the issues
The legal issues that captivate our country range from women’s rights to the role of religion in elections, gay marriage to national security, campaign finance reform to medical malpractice. And there’s one forum that ensures a lively, provocative discussion from experts on both sides of an issue—without the yelling and name-calling. That forum is "Justice Talking," the radio show produced by the Annenberg Public Policy Center that airs on National Public Radio (Mondays at 10 p.m. on WHYY-91 FM).
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At Work With...Joe Testa
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Staff Q&A: John Mark Ockerbloom
While studying computer science in the late 1980s and early 1990s, John Mark Ockerbloom couldn’t help but notice that little invention called the Internet. He was particularly struck by the impact the Web had on university libraries—and the potential it held for revolutionizing the business of books and information.
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Penn Hosts Talk About Preservation of Jewish Heritage
Penn Hosts Talk About Preservation of Jewish HeritageWHO:Warren Miller, Chairman of the U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage AbroadWHEN:Oct. 26, 20046-7:30 p.m.WHERE:University of Pennsylvania Law SchoolTannenbaum Hall, Room 145Sansom Street, between 34th and 36th streetsWarren Miller will discuss the fight against anti-Semitism in Europe, memorializing Holocaust sites and preservation of Jewish religious and cultural sites.
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Battling society's sleep gap
Like eating five servings of vegetables a day, getting enough sleep is one of those lofty goals many of us aspire to but few reach. “The reality is we have too much to do,” says Mark Rosekind. “We’re always shedding tasks, and one of the things we get rid of is sleep.” As part of the Penn Humanities Forum on Sleep and Dreams, Rosekind will visit campus Nov. 3 to tell us why we need to make sleep more of a priority and what to do when we inevitably fail to do that.
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Finding slaves’ place in early American politics
The title of Steven Hahn’s recent Provost’s Lecture—“Can Slaves Practice Politics?”—sounds like a bit of a riddle. For Hahn, though, Penn’s Roy F. and Jeanette P. Nichols Professor of History, it’s been the central question of his career. “It’s a deceptively simple question,” he told the crowd assembled in the Amado Recital Hall at Irvine Auditorium Oct. 7. “But it was a question for which I didn’t have adequate answers.”
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Right and wrong in the 21st century
When Anita Allen was young, she attended Sunday School every week, Vacation Bible School in the summer and sang in her church choir. She began reading philosophy as a teenager, studied the subject in college and graduate school and began her career teaching ethics at Carnegie Mellon University. But Allen, the Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law at Penn, says that even with a strong background in ethics and an intense curiosity about issues of right and wrong, she’s still made mistakes.
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British invasion
Jamie Cullum has been playing music since he was 8 years old. Apparently, all that practice was worth it. Cullum’s most recent release, Twentysomething, has earned rave reviews from critics and even gotten the young Brit some airplay—no small feat for a jazz artist. Cullum, who will play World Café Live on Oct. 23, counts Oscar Peterson and Dave Brubeck among his influences, but his recent work more closely mirrors the borderline pop-rock-jazz of Norah Jones. Not that this is a bad thing.
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Penn's Center for Community Partnerships Wins National Partnerships for Health Award
PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania Center for Community Partnerships has received an honorable mention at the 2004 third annual Community-Campus Partnerships for Health Awards. The awards highlight the power and potential of partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions as a strategy for improving health.The Center was recognized for helping create university-assisted community schools that function as centers of education, services, engagement and activity for students, their parents and other West Philadelphia community members.