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Achebe speaks Noted African novelist Chinua Achebe received a warm welcome from a capacity crowd in Irvine Auditorium when he spoke on “A Celebration of Black Literature” Feb. 14. The author of “Things Fall Apart,” this year’s Penn Reading Project book, devoted much of his address to the subject of portraying the humanity of African peoples. While noting that the characters in his novels share universal human traits, he also criticized authors like Joseph Conrad who, in their portrayals of Africa, overlooked the Africans.
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PHILADELPHIA – As the deadline for compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act draws closer, the commuter and passenger trains used in large swaths of the United States remain inaccessible to passengers in wheelchairs. Meanwhile, the elevated platforms many regional rail systems have erected to address this problem have created another, forcing bulky freight shipments off the rails and onto some of the busiest roadways in the nation.
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PHILADELPHIA – Adorned on the outside with children's smiling faces, the PENNSmiles van is designed on the inside to bring dental-care services to schoolchildren whose smiles might not be so healthy.
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PHILADELPHIAPHILADELPHIA – A new liquid crystal lattice created by scientists at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Sheffield may be invisible to the naked eye, but it's a giant in its own way.Uniting hundreds of thousands of atoms, this supramolecular structure is one of the most complex ever made via self-assembly, where molecules organize themselves into larger structures. What's more, it's the first organic compound to assume an intricate structure previously seen only in metals such as uranium and various metal alloys.
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A University of Pennsylvania expert on children's literature offers guidance for parents on authors whose works are ideal for youngsters Lawrence Sipe, an associate professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, is an expert in children's literature. "Research supports the theory that the single most important predictor of future school success is having parents who read aloud to their kids at an early age." he says. (Professor Sipe is available for interviews.)
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PHILADELPHIA – High school students engaged in a national civics project say that they don't have enough information on the impending war with Iraq to come to a consensus. As a result, students have called for more integration of current events into their studies.The lack of discussion about current events is just one of the concerns mentioned as part of a youth-engagement initiative overseen by the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania involving 13,000 students from 20 high schools in the Philadelphia area.
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Six out of 10 of you reading this are either overweight or obese. And, like many Americans, you probably made a vow on Jan. 1 both to lose weight and to exercise more.
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Roger LaMay will replace Vinnie Curren as the next general manager of WXPN. A former general mana-ger of Fox’s WTXF-TV in Philadelphia, LaMay has two decades of television management experience. While at Fox, LaMay served WXPN as a policy board member and supported a number of the public radio station’s initiatives, including Singer/Songwriter Weekend. Curren left Penn’s public radio station to become senior vice president for radio at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in Washington, D.C.
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WHO: Michael Eric Dyson, Cornel West, Molefi Asante, Tricia Rose, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting and Barbara Smith WHEN: Thursday, Feb. 20, 2003, 5 p.m. WHERE: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology,Harrison Auditorium , 33rd and Spruce streets
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Love is definitely in the air. When the Current scoured the campus looking for the unattached and their take on Valentine’s Day, they were nowhere to be found. But we know you must be out there somewhere. No matter. Here are some suggestions from seasoned lovers on how to celebrate this day of romance. ROBERT F. GIEGENGACK Professor and Chair, Earth and Environmental Science “[Singles should celebrate Valentine’s Day] by making sure that people who are important to them realize that they are valuable.”