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...think the media are to blame for all the accusations of impropriety. Doing something that may be seen as trendy is not always a bad thing. Madonna's action will hopefully encourage others to adopt orphan children who might otherwise have very grim lives. Richard M. Valenci Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania...
...life expectancy site, which provides detailed information on changes you can make - everything from what foods to eat to how much you should sleep - based upon your answers to a series of questions. The tools also can help teach the public how to weigh risk factors, said University of Pennsylvania Prof. Dean Foster, co-author of another calculator. "How good is excercise or how bad is smoking?" Foster asks. "Would you walk a mile for a Camel? Each and every Camel? If you do so, smoking is OK. But if you only walk a half mile for each cigarette...
...peer institutions, especially those in the Ivy League. Including non-tenured faculty members, FAS currently has a total of 17 professors under the aegis of what we could broadly call South Asian studies. Meanwhile, Yale boasts 55 such faculty, Cornell, 45, Columbia, 34, and the University of Pennsylvania, 41. Attracting a larger corps of committed faculty is a prerequisite for much of the functions of a flourishing department: more courses, more research, and more grants.In an ideal world, the Faculty would have the resources to prioritize an integral but underdeveloped field, but we recognize that it must act within...
...started early. The outgoing Iowa Governor declared he was running for president only two days after the midterm elections and this week kicks off a five-day announcement tour through all the states that have early primaries - Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada, along with his native Pennsylvania. In announcing his candidacy, Vilsack acknowledged the long odds, telling a crowd in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, that "I have always been an underdog and a long shot." He cast himself as a candidate with "the courage to create change", a phrase he invoked repeatedly in calling for an improved health care...
...Harvard students with FAS e-mail accounts are currently allotted 40MB of inbox space. The e-mail addresses, which would continue beyond graduation, would still bear the .edu suffix as well as the university’s domain name, both companies say. In the Ivy League, the University of Pennsylvania has been in talks with the two companies since last spring and will be selecting a vendor shortly, according to Penn’s executive director of Computing and Educational Technology Services, Ira Winston. The pilot program, which will replace Penn’s in-house Webmail system in addition...