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Rich Wallace practices his moves for Bill McIntyre's Shooting Stars' 1999 Mummers Parade production. Photo by Mark Garvin

It's one thing to fight for your right to run your own country. It's quite another to actually run it, as Moss Ngoasheng and Ketso Gordhan have learned. Which is what led the two government officials to take a little time off from their duties and brush up on municipal finance at the Wharton School this fall.

Eugene Huang demonstrates the computer-based universal remote he developed with Peter Daley. The two have formed a company to bring their invention to market. Photo by Candace diCarlo

Ruzena Bajcsy, professor of computer and information science and director of the General Robotics and Active Sensory Perception Laboratory, had to be persuaded to pose for pictures for this story.

Senior citizens whose health problems would have put them in a nursing home in the past now have a health-care option that preserves their freedom, thanks to a new program run by Penn's Nursing School.

Penn's Enhanced Mortgage Program, designed to encourage faculty and staff to purchase homes in University City, is succeeding beyond expectations.

Photo by Mary Kathryn Ceise

Photo by Candace diCarlo

An alert University City Associates employee and a savvy co-worker managed to reverse a historical disaster Sept. 18 by recovering a nearly 200-year-old diary kept by a notable Philadelphia woman.