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A perfect 10: Your Buzz correspondent’s broad-brimmed Quaker hat’s off to the Penn football class of 2004, which completed one of the most successful collegiate careers in Penn football history with its 59-7 burial of traditional year-end rival Cornell Nov. 22. The win put an exclamation point on a perfect 10-0 season and a second straight Ivy League championship. This year’s Quakers are the second team in league history to post two straight 7-0 records against Ivy opponents.
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Mighty mice hold hope for muscle ailments
Broad shoulders. Sculpted muscles. An almost unnatural resistance to aging. No, it’s not the former Terminator-turned-Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, but the legion of mice running about the Richards Labs hoping to chart a path toward greater quality of life for sufferers of muscular dystrophy and aging alike.
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A uniformly stimulating exhibit
There is something about a uniform. Whether it’s the schoolgirls’ crisp white blouses and plaid pleated skirts, the marching band’s bright brass buttons and splendid gold braid or College of Cardinals black cassocks and red birettas, they are all freighted with meaning and convey important information about rank, responsibilities and group identity.
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Sorensen replays ’62 missile standoff
Theodore Sorensen, one of President John F. Kennedy’s closest advisers, gave a campus audience an inside look at crisis management in a talk in Jon M. Huntsman Hall Nov. 13.The talk, “Presidents and Their Advisors During Crisis,” focused on one president—Kennedy—and his gravest crisis, the placement of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba in 1962.
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Santa Claus, visiting professor from the University of the North Pole
WHO: Santa Claus, visiting professor from the University of the North PoleWHAT: The physics demonstration laboratory of the University of Pennsylvania Department of Physics and Astronomy holds its seventh annual physics demonstration for area high school students. The lab will host three shows during two days.WHEN: Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2003, 9:30 a.m. and noonThursday, Dec. 11, 2003 10 a.m.WHERE: Auditorium A1, first floor, David Rittenhouse Laboratory, 209 S. 33rd Street on the University of Pennsylvania campus, Philadelphia
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Penn Law School Class to Attend Supreme Court Hearing on Pennsylvania Redistricting
MEDIA ADVISORYUniversity of Pennsylvania Law School Class to Attend Supreme Court Hearing on Pennsylvania Redistricting WHO:Penn Law School "Contemporary Issues in Law and Politics" classWHAT:Visit to U.S. Supreme Court for oral arguments in Vieth v. Jubilirer, a case concerning the constitutionality of redistricting of Pennsylvania's congressional districts WHEN:Dec. 10, 2003, 10 a.m.WHERE:U.S. Supreme CourtOne First St., NEWashington, D.C.
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New Production Technique May Let Scientists Fine-Tune Strength and Conductivity of Nanotube-Laced Materials
PHILADELPHIA -- Materials fortified with carbon nanotubes are strongest when the embedded filaments run parallel to each other, but electronic and thermal conductivity are best when the nanotubes are oriented randomly. That the finding from a team of engineers at the University of Pennsylvania who have developed a production technique that permits a finer and more precise dispersion of nanotubes within a material.
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Cytokine Signal Shuts Down Hyperactive T Cells; "Off Switch" Could Halt Inflammation And Autoimmunity
PHILADELPHIA -- Since their discovery, cytokines have provided biomedical researchers with a tangled web of immune-system pathways to unknot. While most known cytokines have a role in stimulating immunity, one cytokine, IL-27, may actually suppress CD4 T cells, the helper T cells that orchestrate the immune system response to infections, according to researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine.
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Penn Researcher: In Spite of Predictions, Child Abuse Did Not Increase after Welfare Reform
PHILADELPHIA -- Despite predictions to the contrary, the incidence of child abuse did not rise with the implementation of welfare reform.After analyzing data from a number of national sources on child abuse and neglect, Richard J. Gelles, dean of the School of Social Work at the University of Pennsylvania, concluded that, not only did maltreatment of children in the United States not increase after the 1996 passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, the opposite happened.
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Radnor School District Superintendent Named Director of Penn Center for Educational Leadership
PHILADELPHIA -- John A. DeFlaminis, retiring superintendent of the Radnor School District, has been named executive director of the Penn Center for Educational Leadership in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania.