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PHILADELPHIA Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and Cornell University have pinpointed a fundamental mechanism that controls how cells coursing through our blood "know" when to exit the bloodstream and go to work in the body tissues. The secret, they report in the Sept. 26 is-sue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, are so-called "Goldilocks molecules" that bind blood cells to the walls of veins and arteries neither too strongly nor too weakly, but with just the right level of adhesion.
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The Office of Community Housing continues to offer seminars to help members of the Penn community with home ownership and purchase information. The following brown-bag seminars are being offered this semester.
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Once upon a time, in ancient Phrygia, in the capital city of Gordion, there lived a king named Midas who turned everything he touched into gold. Well, King Midas, being real and human, may have been the Donald Trump of 700 B.C., but the magical golden touch of the legend was less than likely to be his. His grave, which was excavated by University of Pennsylvania Museum archaeologists 40 years ago in modern-day central Turkey, had not a whit of gold in it.
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She’s no man’s woman, but she’s a powerful performer, and on Sept. 22, Sinéad O’Connor will be David Dye’s guest for a “World Cafe” interview from New York. Other highlights these next two weeks include: Thursday, Sept. 14 Michigan native P.J. Olsson talks about and plays work from his new album, “Words for Living”
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It was a homecoming of sorts. Here was C.K. Williams (C’58), the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, sipping coffee in a Starbucks on South Street, a street he remembers well from his 25 years of residence in Philadelphia. But today’s South Street is a far cry from the funky, artsy strip he remembers. “The word ‘tawdry’ came to mind as I was walking up, which is sad,” he said. It wasn’t the same Center City, either — all those tall skyscrapers, he said, “sort of tore the heart out of Center City.”
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This was not your father’s New Student Orientation (NSO). And the new students gobbled it up. Crazy and not-so-crazy classes gave them a taste of academic life. Music, dance, poetry and museum exhibits linked students to the campus’ rich cultural life. Tours of the neighborhood and Center City oriented the Class of 2004 to the world around them. These activities were part of seven action-packed orientation days, beginning Aug. 31.
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Benjamin Pierce had a problem that besets almost everyone who works with files on more than one computer. He couldn’t keep track of the various versions of files on his laptop and workstation. Pierce, being an assistant professor of computer and information science, however, knew how to solve the problem. He could create new software. “I was pounding my hands and saying, Why can’t I figure this out?” he said. “So I said, Why don’t I take a weekend and write a little tool? “That was four years ago, and now I’m still writing my little tool.”
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According to its advocates and critics, the spread of the Internet is ushering in an information revolution unprecedented in human history, with the power to transform our entire social structure, but with the equal potential to open a gulf between the haves and the have-nots of the Information Age. The only problem with this argument is that this revolution is not unprecedented. Actually, there are two very good earlier examples of information revolutions that produced similar transformations and similar problems.
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Andrew Chalfen (C’86) spends his days behind a desk at the Office of Student Conduct. But since graduating from Penn as an urban studies major in 1986, he’s been a fixture on the Philadelphia independent music scene, writing songs and playing in bands. Former bandmates and collaborators include Philadelphia Weekly columnist Joey Sweeney, Joe Genaro of the Dead Milkmen, and members of Philly rock-band-of-the-moment Marah.
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Phyllis Holtzman has been appointed interim director of university communications in the Office of University Relations. Holtzman, who was senior manager of university communications for two years, will serve as interim director until a search is completed for a permanent replacement for former Director of University Relations Ken Wildes. Prior to serving as senior manager, Holtzman served in various senior positions in communications and public affairs at the University for 10 years.