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PERFORMANCES / LECTURES / EVENTS January 14-28 EDITOR'S PICKS Professor of Chinese Literature Victor Mair's discovery of 3,000-year-old, blonde-haired, blue-eyed mummies in northern China is the subject of a documentary feature on PBS' "Nova" series Tuesday, Jan. 20. "China's Mysterious Mummies" airs at 8 p.m. and again at 11 p.m. on WHYY (Channel 12).
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Penn sells Gutman Farm
Through an agreement with the Heritage Conservancy, a non-profit membership organization dedicated to preserving natural and historic resources, and local neighbors, the University has sold the 211-acre Gutman Farm in Bucks County for $3.75 million. The resources will be used by the Graduate School of Fine Arts.
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"It's sort of like going to see a tightrope walker. The audience appreciates that you're taking a risk."
TOM MCMANUS Position: Senior Regional Director for the Office of Admissions Length of service: 3 years. Other stuff: If it's got an audience, he'll be on stage. At 25, Penn alum Tom McManus (C'94) so liked his work study job in the Office of Admissions that he found a way to stay at Penn after graduation, first working in Alumni Relations for a year, and then working in Admissions.
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Pa. Book Center finds new home
The University and the Pennsylvania Book Center have signed a letter of intent to relocate a beloved independent bookseller to the 3900 block of Walnut Street. The agreement will spell a happy ending for patrons who in forums across campus vociferously bemoaned the possible loss of the store to upcoming University development. The new store would be next to Eat at Joe's, the late-night diner scheduled to open on that block in February.
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Roadside Fossil Find Provides Key to the Development of Limbs in Animals
PHILADELPHIA --- Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia have discovered dramatic new evidence of how arms and legs developed from the fins of ancient fish. The evidence was discovered in a rock found in a pile of boulders lying along a busy highway in north-central Pennsylvania.The scientists reported their findings in the Jan. 8 issue of Nature.
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Alum's Moving Documentary Played at IH
An award-winning film at International House caught our eye. Annenberg School of Communication alumna Nilita Vachani documents the life of a domestic worker who struggles to support her own children in Sri Lanka by taking care of someone else's child in Greece. First prize winner at the Festival dei Popoli in Florence, an important documentary film festival, "When Mother Comes Home for Christmas" was screened at numerous international festivals before arriving at Annenberg Feb. 19.
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As Penn faculty publish books, an occasional column appears on these pages to inform the University community of new releases. Modernism as Déja Vu All Over Again A collection of essays by Jean-Michel RabatŽ, Marjorie G. Ernest Term Professor of English, questions whether modernism and postmodernism can be separated from the past, from the future and from each other.
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Faculty Creak Past Students
The first student-faculty basketball game, the Provost's "Stanley" Cup (named after Provost Stanley Chodorow), offered 16 students a chance that every college kid wants--to go up against the faculty and show them who's boss. And that is exactly what they were doing in the first half of the game. College senior Jugdeep Bal left his teammates and his competitors frozen in awe as he snagged a rebound (top).
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New Eatery Sates Midnight Snack Attacks
Tonight's grand opening of a new campus nightspot is six months ahead of schedule, with hoopla and food, all because--you asked for it. When students responded to a Dining Services survey last spring, they expressed a strong desire for a late-night dining spot in the Quad. Dining Services began to develop plans for a new facility, targeting the fall of 1997 for the opening.
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Old English Politics Endure in Modern Sexual Politics
Once upon a time--1702-1714 to be exact--there was an English queen named Anne. To engage the affection of her subjects, she ordered her publicists to promote her as the mother of the nation. Anne had a precedent for her action. Queen Elizabeth had also promoted herself as mother of the nation. She had cashed in on her virginity: virgin queen as virgin mother, with the nation as the Son. At her coronation, Anne went even further with the metaphor, and presented herself as a nursing mother to the nation.