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Nurses need to know how to ‘walk both worlds’
MUSIC/A School of Nursing course teaches future nurse practitioners how to navigate the world of alternative and complementary medicine. Whether it’s black cohosh to quell hot flashes or yoga to soothe arthritis, more and more people are looking beyond the pharmacy shelves to cure what ails them.
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In Darfur, a war on the people
It’s been difficult to put an accurate number on the lives lost during the three-year conflict in Darfur, the western region of Sudan. Estimates from last year ranged from 70,000 to 300,000, though those numbers are little more than educated guesses. For Ali B. Ali-Dinar, outreach coordinator at Penn’s African Studies Center, the numbers are not the issue. His concern is for the people—including entire communities and villages—who have been displaced by the conflict in that region and forced to move to camps around the province.
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Down by the river
April, they say, is the cruelest month. This year March proved equally baleful, teasing us one day with 70-degree temperatures only to plunge us back into winter the next for another bout of bitter winds. It was on one of those out-of-the-blue balmy days that our thoughts turned to Schuylkill River Park.
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Jacquelyn Taylor-Powell
WHO SHE IS: Coordinator of the PennSmiles program in Penn Dental’s Department of Community Oral Health. YEARS AT PENN: 9; nearly 4 with the PennSmiles Van.
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For The Record: The good doctor
By THE CURRENT STAFF When Dr. Isidor Schwaner Ravdin received orders to head to Assam, India, in January of 1943, he had little idea of what awaited. But just as he had throughout an impressive medical career, he persevered—and excelled.
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Ask Benny: Olmsted Jr. and the Morris Arboretum
Columns Ask Benny: Olmsted Jr. and the Morris Arboretum Out and About: Down by the river
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Movie talk
Penn is playing a starring role in this year’s Philadelphia Film Festival. More than half the films in the festival are being screened at venues on or near campus and Penn experts are on hand, too, to discuss the movies at a series of Cine Cafes. These free informal discussions, with complimentary refreshments, enhance the filmgoing experience and are led by Penn movie mavens in the departments of Cinema Studies, Near Eastern Languages and Music. Monday, April 3
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The Penn Compact in Asia
By THE CURRENT STAFF After traveling earlier this year to India, Amy Gutmann recently returned from another leg of her Penn Compact World Tour. This time her travels for Penn took her to Hong Kong, Singapore and Beijing.
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It starts with Texas hold ’em
RESEARCH/Card gambling among teenage boys and young men is growing rapidly, and that’s a cause for worry, says this public policy researcher. With March Madness in full swing, many are finding themselves drawn into office pools or logging onto the online betting bonanza that now accompanies the three-week college basketball tournament. For most, it’s a once-a-year foray into the high thrills world of betting. For others, it’s one more opportunity to indulge a regular gambling habit.