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Botswana, in southern Africa, suffers from the second highest HIV/AIDS rate in the world, with nearly a quarter of the adult population infected. Before the virus began to devastate the country, average life expectancy was almost 70 years. By 2004, it had dropped to 47.
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Photo credit: Mark Stehle As administrative assistant for Wharton External Affairs, Breann Savage is in charge of running the school’s LinkedIn group. The online community is growing at such a blazing pace—roughly 100 new members join every week—Savage says she sometimes feels as though she has to run to keep up with it.
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Dear Benny: Can I access money in my 403(b) account without being penalized? Can I also stop making retirement contributions at any time or is there only one set time per year when I can do this?—Flummoxed about fundsDear Flummoxed, Let’s start with your second question since it involves a more straightforward answer.
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PHILADELPHIA — The University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice is launching a program in working with older adults, with the help of a two-year, $10,000 grant from the John A. Hartford Foundation and a matching $10,000 contribution from a donor.
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Visitors can get three for the price of none on September 10 at the Institute of Contemporary Art’s Fall Opening Reception for three new exhibits. “Dance with Camera,” on display through March 21, is an exhibition (pictured) and screening program that explores a crossover between artists and dancers who make choreography for the camera. Spanning 70 years of art and film, it features works in film, video, and still photography that exemplify the ways dance has compelled visual artists to record bodies moving in time and space.
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“MacHomer” is Shakespeare by way of Springfield. The fictional Springfield, that is—the home of tv’s “The Simpsons.” This one-man production runs from Oct. 14 through 17 at the Annenberg Center, and features Rick Miller performing Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” as various characters from the iconic “Simpsons” tv show. In all, Miller recreates more than 50 characters on stage, including Homer in the tragic title role and Marge as Lady Macbeth.
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This water color by David J. Kennedy is currently on display at the Arthur Ross Gallery as part of the show, "West Philadelphia: Building a Community." For years, Penn history professor Walter Licht taught courses requiring students to leave the classroom and get involved in West Philadelphia neighborhoods.
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These public events are happening in conjunction with the Arthur Ross Gallery exhibit, “West Philadelphia: Building a Community.” For more information, go to www.upenn.edu/ARG. Sept. 10, 5:30 p.m., Arthur Ross Gallery, 220 S. 34th St. Lecture: “Picturing Early West Philadelphia,” by Jeffrey Cohen, senior lecturer, Growth and Structures of Cities Program, Bryn Mawr College Sept. 16, 5:30 p.m., Arthur Ross Gallery Lecture: “Before the Arrival of the University: David Kennedy and ‘West Philadelphia,’” by Martha Mel Edmunds
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Penn President Amy Gutmann welcomes new students to the University during Move-in.
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Debates about using animals in research stretch back centuries, but the modern animal rights movement was born in 1975 when philosopher Peter Singer, the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton, published his book “Animal Liberation.” Often called the “bible” of the animal liberation movement, the book calls for the end of animal use in medical research.