Heather Davis

In 1988, Victor Mair was leading a Smithsonian tour group through the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Museum in China when he saw something that stopped him dead in his tracks.

WHAT: The show at the Arthur Ross Gallery (220 S. 34th St.) is “Post-Mao Dreaming: Chinese Contemporary Art,” which opened on Jan. 22 and runs through April 3.

When Jeff Rusling first took the helm at Computer Connection in 1998, the store would turn the Penn Ice Rink into a giant distribution center each fall, where students would pick up the new desktop computers that they’d ordered over the summer. Needless to say, things have changed.

WELCOME WINTER: It’s cold and dreary outdoors, but that doesn’t mean you have to trudge through the early part of 2011 feeling that way on the inside. Think of winter as the perfect time to treat yourself to a little something extra in the beauty department.

Asking people to change the way they commute to work is a little bit like asking them to change their lives. For plenty of people, it’s just not possible to make the shift to public transit, van pooling or other forms of commuting. But for others, it may be just a matter of finding what alternate mode of transit works best for them.

Take a tour of Penn’s campus and you’ll see modern buildings and green space coexisting peacefully with structures more than a century old. There’s the gleaming modern green brick of Skirkanich Hall nestled in between the Moore and Towne buildings. Or the 1924 Fisher-Bennett Hall and the 1890 original Music Building—now both equipped with fully modern interior spaces.

Fifty years ago this month, a junior U.S. Senator from Massachusetts became the youngest person ever elected to the presidency and the second-youngest to hold the job.

  Conventional wisdom says that young people are less interested in showing up to vote than older generations. If there’s any truth to that, Penn students aren’t buying it.

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THE BASICS: Founded in 2007, Philadelphia Community Acupuncture (PCA) features low-cost acupuncture treatments in a peaceful, community-orientated setting.