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...wanted to fit in so bad," Ahmed says. For her, that meant trying to be white. She dyed her hair blond, got hazel contact lenses and complained, "I'm going to smell," when her mom served fragrant dishes like lamb biryani for dinner. But at Villanova University in Philadelphia, Ahmed found friends from all different backgrounds who welcomed diversity and helped her, she says, become "a good balance of East meets West." Now 23, she and her non-Asian roommates threw a party to mark the Islamic holiday 'Id al-Fitr in November, then threw another for Christmas?which...
...tested. Targeting gay men who meet online, the program is based on the original inSPOT.org website, which began in San Francisco more than a year ago to combat the syphilis epidemic in that population but only just started including HIV notifications. Health-care agencies in Indiana, California, Colorado, Philadelphia and Seattle have plans to launch inSPOT sites later this year, while many others are considering doing...
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...Eric Rothschild, a member of the ACLU legal team and a partner in the powerful Philadelphia law firm Pepper Hamilton, attacked the school board members who approved the intelligent design requirement. ?They were selfish-they imposed their own religious viewpoint on a community that has diverse religious beliefs,? he said. ?And they did that without any investigation or research about whether what they were presenting to the students was science. This was all about getting their religious views into the school curriculum...
...delectable T.G.I. Friday’s cheddar and bacon potato skins. Those snacks make life studying orgo in Cabot library so much more bearable. Yum, yum. Good snacks. Yep. Oh right, there aren’t any vending machines in the Science Center.Three: Exorcise the 802.11b demons. Prominent Philadelphia architect Robert Venturi called Sever Hall his “favorite building in America.” It shows “the validity of architecture as generic shelter rather than abstract-expressive sculpture,” Venturi wrote. To students inside Sever, however, it shows the pitfalls of delaying...