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Are kids really safer in SUVs? Researcher says maybe not
Dennis Durbin has spent the last half-decade combing through data on thousands of car crashes, and the injuries suffered by children in those accidents. In recent years, one trend in particular began to catch his eye. The number of SUVs on the road was steadily increasing—as was the number of children injured in crashes involving SUVs.
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After the storm
In partnership with the Penn Institute for Urban Research (IUR), Provost Ronald Daniels has organized a conference on urban rebuilding to follow up on his well-attended post-Katrina symposium on risk and disaster” in D.C. last month. This second conference, to be held Feb. 2-3, will take place on campus and will feature a panel of leading national experts including scholars from Penn.
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On a roll in West Philly
In many ways, bowling is the perfect group activity. People of all skill levels can play together—the league player can take the lane alongside a novice—and for the most part, it’s still a reasonably priced activity. Also, it’s rare that anyone gets hurt (though you may get a sore muscle or two from crouching and hurling an eight to 14-pound ball down an oiled lane).
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A homecoming for Dr. Gutmann
President Amy Gutmann took to the dance floor on a recent visit to India, where she met with alumni and friends of Penn in Mumbai. Gutmann hosted a January 5 alumni event that drew more than 300 people and featured a magnificent performance by the Penn student a capella group Penn Masala, which traveled from Philadelphia for the event. Later in the week, Gutmann was the capstone speaker at the Wharton Global Alumni Forum, also in Mumbai, where she told the audience how this was literally a homecoming: Her father fled Nazi Germany in 1934 and found refuge in Mumbai.
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Educating Ben
With celebrations in honor of Ben Franklin’s 300th birthday taking place across the city, it may be difficult to decide where to start. Here’s your answer: the Penn Library.
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Kadima faces big questions
By most accounts, the health of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon remains stable—but serious enough that few in the press expect him to return to public life. Sharon suffered his major stroke on Jan. 4, about a month and a half after the prime minister broke from the right-leaning Likud party to form the centrist Kadima party. While many expect Kadima will win a majority in the March 28 general election, based on several polls taken since Sharon was hospitalized, this centrist party has an uncertain future.
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Movable Feast: Hoagies
By THE CURRENT STAFF Given that we here at The Current are, at best, amateur foodies, it was probably presumptuous of us to think we could judge who made the best Italian hoagie in University City. This is the Italian hoagie, after all—the sandwich that, were it not for the mighty cheesesteak, would reign supreme over all other Philadelphia sandwiches. Who were we to judge?
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Remains of the day
Q&A/Penn Museum’s keeper of physical anthropology talks about scanning mummies, making molds of Neanderthals and why human babies are born so small and helpless. “I’m one of those people who have crazy loves and I have a love for everything about evolution.”
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"Rap, Race and Black-Asian Relations"
WHO: Jeff Chang, writer and author of "Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation"Kenyon Farrow, writer, activist, co-editor of "Letters from Young Activists" and culture editor for Clamor magazine Walidah Imarisha, poet, independent journalist and founder of The Rearguard and AWOL magazinesWHAT: Panel discussion on rap music and race relations WHEN: Feb. 1, 2006, 6-8 p.m.WHERE: University of Pennsylvania, Room 360 Huntsman Hall, 3730, Walnut St.
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First Impressions of Beauty May Demonstrate Why the Pretty Prosper
PHILADELPHIA -- We might not be able to resist a pretty face after all, according to a report from the University of Pennsylvania. Experiments in which subjects were given a fraction of a second to judge "attractiveness" offered further evidence that our preference for beauty might be hard-wired. People who participated in the studies were also more likely to associate pretty faces with positive traits.