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March 30, 2007 | Daily News, Philadelphia Inquirer, Sports Network, The Phanatic.com
Temple women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley has been signed to a six-year contract extension. "Dawn has made Temple one of the top women's basketball programs in the nation, and she has done it the right way," commented President Ann Weaver Hart.
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March 29, 2007 | NBC10, MedicalNewsToday.com, KTNV (Las Vegas)
Researchers at Temple University found that people living in the city have more heart disease than rural residents. City residents had larger waistlines and higher blood pressure and cholesterol levels. They were also more likely to smoke and suffer from diabetes, the study showed. |
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March 29, 2007 | Government Health IT
Temple University's School of Medicine has come up with a truly new way to use the iPod, which is hopefully indicative of how Web 2.0-ish technologies may evolve in the future. They've applied it to a very basic and very old medical instrument -- the stethoscope -- to dramatically improve the listening skills of doctors that need to use it every day. |
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March 29, 2007 | Financial Times
A push for greater domestic defense spending by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is not wining support from the public. Robert Dujarric, a defense expert at Temple University in Tokyo, said Japan's public is not ready to support greater spending on defense that has, since the war, largely been outsourced to the U.S. "As long as you see the Americans are providing you with a credible umbrella, why spend more? There's no pressure from voters to do so." |
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March 29, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
“The city's Department of Human Services and Temple University Health System are finally moving ahead on a project to locate myriad workers involved in child sex-abuse investigations under one roof,” says the Inquirer in an editorial heralding the move. “The Tower Building agreement is praiseworthy beyond its benefits to troubled kids.” |
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March 29, 2007 | Associated Press, Philadelphia Inquirer
Temple University law students will hold a forum this Friday to discuss revitalizing neighborhoods around the university’s North Philadelphia campus. |
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March 29, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Temple alumnus Keith Forrest, in an op-ed, writes about how excited he and his son were to sit courtside for a Temple basketball game. “As the game wound down, I realized it was a fairy tale visit.” |
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March 29, 2007 | Stockton (Calif.) Journal
Although the record industry is cracking down on the practice, hip-hop DJs continue to make mix tapes because it builds an audience. Marc Lamont Hill, an assistant professor of urban education and American studies at Philadelphia's Temple University noted that hip-hop has a tradition of using others' work to create new songs. The Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight," which, in 1980, was the first rap song to go mainstream, featured a sample from the Chic disco hit "Good Times." |
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March 29, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
A small company that offers foreign language films online has recently gone public. Smaller companies sometimes go public in this way because they cannot meet requirements or expenses of going public on a larger market, such as Nasdaq, said Stephen Kamp, an assistant professor of finance at Temple’s Fox School of Business. |
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March 28, 2007 | CBSNews.com, WebMD
A new study shows that where you live plays a bigger role in your risk for heart disease than your ethnicity or race. "We found that urban Caucasians had risk factors that were more similar to those of urban African-Americans than rural Caucasians," says researcher Carol Homko, Ph.D., assistant professor at Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia. Homko says the differences are largely due to lifestyle. "It's much harder to exercise in the city because of safety issues," she tells WebMD. "And it's more difficult to find reasonably priced fresh fruits and vegetables." |
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March 28, 2007 | Good Day Philadelphia
How much salt intake is appropriate in one day? What role does stress play with high blood pressure and cholesterol? On "Ask the Expert," Dr. Nelson Wolf, from Temple University's School of Medicine, answered these questions and more. |
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March 28, 2007 | KYW radio
When Temple University cardiologist and professor of medicine Dr. Michael Barrett started using iPods to teach differences in heart sounds, he was amazed at the results. "It used to take months to years to get good at this. In fact, only cardiologists would routinely score 80 percent when you tested them on these murmurs. We can condense that down to three to four hours." |
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March 28, 2007 | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Montreal Star, Vancouver Sun, Canada.com
The Associated Press story on President Ann Weaver Hart’s inaugural offer to underwrite passport fees for Temple students who want to study abroad continues to gain attention, in Pittsburgh and among Canadian media. |
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March 28, 2007 | CNN
Think you have enough money set aside to meet your personal health needs in retirement? Most people don’t save enough. That's why Jack VanDerhei, a business school professor at Temple University and an Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) Fellow, is developing a new methodology that takes into account six key elements that have a direct bearing on your savings rate. |
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March 27, 2007 | The (Del.) News Journal
Like your muscles, your mind needs regular workouts to remain in top shape as you age. “Muscles need ... a workout to keep them toned. The same goes for the brain," said Dr. Ausim Azizi, chairman of the neurology department at the School of Medicine, adding that daily mental stimulation allows neural pathways in the brain to continue to grow. |
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March 27, 2007 | MacUser.com, TechNewsWorld, IndiaEduNews, EarthNews
Can iPods be good for your heart? They can if they are being used by Dr. Michael Barrett to teach medical students and practicing physicians how to better detect heart problems. Websites around the world are now carrying the story. |
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March 27, 2007 | Fox29, “Good Morning Philadelphia”
Temple student Steve Wood, who spent his spring break week among the homeless in Philadelphia, was interviewed about his experiences. |
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March 27, 2007 | Daily News
John Edwards’ decision to continue his presidential campaign despite his wife’s cancer has drawn some criticism, but others believe the pursuit of normal activities is vital in dealing with the disease. “Experts in the field of oncologic psychiatry agree with their decision, including Dr. David Baron, of Temple University, who said yesterday, ‘I can tell you a lot of people who stop doing what they normally do, that's the beginning of the end. . . . It's important that you don't stop living for fear of death.’ " |
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March 27, 2007 | Hartford Courant
Benedetto Cipriani, a suspect in the 2003 shooting deaths at an auto repair shop in Hartford, Conn., fled to Italy and is no longer in custody there. Peter Spiro, an international law professor at Temple University, said Italy may not turn Cipriani over to the United States if it is not adequately reassured that he won't face the death penalty. "The Italian perspective is, `Why should we trust an assurance from the state of Connecticut? What's to stop them when he returns to the United States from proceeding with a capital case against him?'" Spiro said. |
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March 27, 2007 | CN8, Philadelphia Inquirer
The first day of spring football practice, and this fall the Temple Owls will be playing as a member of the MAC conference. Coal Al Golden is excited. "Every day, we have a goal that we work for, and that's the only way the kids will be judged,” said Golden. "They'll be judged on whether they attend classes like at a MAC championship level, they'll be judged on whether they hit the weight room like a MAC championship team, and, obviously now, the way we practice and prepare. It's good to be in a league again.
Meanwhile, the home football opening game for Temple has been shifted one day because of a change in the Philadelphia Eagles schedule.
Birds' exhibition pushes Owls' opener to Aug. 31
Temple's home opener shifts for Eagles game |
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March 26, 2007 | Good Day Philadelphia
What are the symptoms of diabetes in children and can it be corrected through diet? My child is eating well and exercising, why isn't he losing weight? On "Ask the Expert," Gary Foster, director of the Center for Obesity Research and Education, answered these questions and more. |
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March 26, 2007 | University Business
Pledging greater attention to the environment, academic excellence, international learning, and the pockets of alumni donors, Ann Weaver Hart was officially installed yesterday as Temple University's first female president. Hart also reaffirmed Temple's commitment to its North Philadelphia surroundings and the educational opportunities it long has offered the underprivileged. "Temple will change," Hart, 58, said in her inaugural speech. "... Our fundamental values will not." |
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March 26, 2007 | UPI
Where people live affects how they live and, as a result, influences their risk of heart disease, according to a new study. “Carol Homko of Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia and colleagues found rural residents were more knowledgeable about healthy eating and heart disease risk compared to urban residents, but urban residents were more motivated and optimistic about getting healthy.” |
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March 26, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
As Temple’s football team begins its spring practices, the mood is upbeat and focused. "Number one, this spring is about becoming unified as a team," said Coach Al Golden. "And this spring is about execution, technique and fundamentals. We made some strides in changing the culture of the team. Now it's time to take it to the next level in terms of winning some football games." |
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March 26, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Temple is mentioned in a story describing new measures some schools are taking to research the criminal backgrounds of student applicants. |
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March 25, 2007 | KYW radio
In his weekly business analysis, Temple Fox School of Business professor Bill Dunkelberg talks about the influences driving the stock market. |
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March 25, 2007 | NPR, "Weekend Edition Sunday"
Temple history professor Will Hitchcock had an extended conversation with host Liane Hansen about the 50th anniversary of the organization that has become the European Union. Hitchcock talks about whether the original intent for the European Economic Community has been met in the EU. |
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March 25, 2007 | Newsweek.com, PhysOrg.com, LiveScience.com
"This weekend at the annual conference of the American College of Cardiology, (Dr. Michael) Barrett (of Temple University) reported that cardiology (or at least one component of it) can be taught by iPod. After listening to MP3s of 400 or more heartbeats, manipulated to sound either healthy or abnormal, students were able to easily identify sounds in patients that might signal trouble. Before testing out Barrett's program, another group of internists managed to identify only 40 percent of murmurs correctly; afterwards, they got 80 percent right." |
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March 25, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
The "Influences" profile this week looks at David Kairys, James E. Beasley Professor of Law at Temple University's Beasley School of Law and a nationally known civil rights lawyer and author. "There should be a national Marshall Plan for the cities, but funding won't be coming from Washington or Harrisburg anytime soon. We're on our own, but not making effective use of our best resources: a lot of potentially productive people…." |
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March 25, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
"Increasingly, a new study shows, U.S.-born Asians and Hispanics are choosing to wed foreign-born members of their own ethnicity. At the same time, greater numbers of new immigrants are marrying among themselves… Marc Lamont Hill, who teaches urban education at Temple University, sees the increase in same-culture marriages as 'absolutely a good thing. We've been taught that white people, and particularly white women, are the standard for beauty and attractiveness,' Hill said. Marrying within ethnicity is a way of moving beyond that, he said." |
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March 25, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Gayle Ronan Sims wrote a touching profile of the late Jack "The Saint" St. Clair Jr., former Temple University head men's track coach. St. Clair, who died at 80, led the Owls to a 104-32-1 record from 1967 to 1983. |
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March 24, 2007 | Cox News Service
With an assist from Title IX, the women's NCAA Tournament sells out its Final Four as the swift and dramatic upswing in women's basketball brings the game closer in off-court extras to the men. "There's a future in it now," said Dawn Staley, the Temple University coach who was a two-time national player of the year at Virginia in the early 1990s. "We couldn't always say that." |
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March 24, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
The potential merger of Independence Blue Cross and Highmark Blue Shield is raising some questions. Joseph W. "Chip" Marshall 3d, chairman of the Temple University Health System, said: "If this merger allows them to become more efficient and, more important, more effective, then that's good for everybody." But, he said, it is still too early to say whether he will support or oppose the merger. |
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March 24, 2007 | EducauseConnect
A podcast featuring Temple University's Gerald Hinkle, Timothy O'Rourke, and Sheri Stahler in a session entitled "From Labs to Collaborative Spaces: Development of Temple University's TECH Center." They discuss the TECH Center, a 24-hour center featuring 640-plus student workstations, multimedia breakout rooms, specialized labs, extensive wireless lounge space, a help desk, faculty resources, and a cybercafé. |
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March 23, 2007 | Chronicle of Higher Education, NEPA News
"Temple University’s new president, Ann Weaver Hart, wants Temple students to study abroad — so much so that she has offered to fork over the $97 passport-application fee for any student who applies for a passport for the first time. In her inaugural address on Thursday, Ms. Hart stressed the value of study abroad and international internships, telling students that she and her husband, Randy, a retired lawyer, would establish an endowment through the university’s office of international programs to pay for the passports. |
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March 23, 2007 | Ithica Journal, Cornell Daily Sun
Lisa Staiano-Coico, the Rebecca Q. and James C. Morgan Dean of Cornell's College of Human Ecology (CHE), has been named provost of Temple University, effective July 1. "Dean Staino-Coico has made significant contributions to Cornell and the College of Human Ecology. We will miss her energy and passion," said Cornell President David Skorton. "We are thrilled for Lisa and the opportunity this new assignment represents for her." |
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March 23, 2007 | Philadelphia Tribune
"The image of Tommie Smith and John Carlos raising their fists in defiance on the medal stand at the 1968 Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City as enduring an image on the American consciousness as those images of U.S. Marines raising the flag at Iwo Jima during World War II," writes Chris Murray. Smith spoke at Paley Library on March 23 to promote Silent Gesture: The Autobiography of Tommie Smith, published by Temple University Press. |
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March 23, 2007 | Investor's Business Daily
Drug giant Merck is gearing up for the U.S. launch of what analysts dub the Son of Vioxx: Arcoxia. Like Vioxx, it's a cox-2 inhibitor - a painkiller that's easier on the stomach than generic drugs such as naproxen, ibuprofen and aspirin. The market exists for a new product, says Albert Wertheimer, head of Temple University's Center for Pharmaceutical Health Services Research. He also figures Merck has learned its lesson from Vioxx, and that the company will do a better job of promoting and marketing Arcoxia. |
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March 23,2007 | AlaskaReport.com
Eighteen years after the Exxon Valdez tanker accident in Alaska, oil continues to pollute the local waterways. Why the oil hasn't dissipated is a mystery. "Every indication tells us that the oil should have biodegraded," says principle investigator Michel Boufadel, chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering in Temple's College of Engineering, in a release. "But what we've seen is there are still plenty of places where the oil still exists." He is leading a research effort into resolving the mystery. |
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March 23, 2007 | Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Pennsylvania's academic medical centers play a big role in the state's economy, according to a new report. Temple University School of Medicine and Temple University Hospital were included in the study. |
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March 23, 2007 | Daily Pennsylvanian
“Steve Capus, president of NBC News, has come a long way from his days as a Temple University undergraduate working at local television station WCAU,” wrote Pamela Yau. “As Gail Shister said to her television criticism class in her introduction of Capus, ‘19 years later, the [Temple] owl is running the peacock.’ " |
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March 23, 2007 | Daily News
Temple University has been awarded a three-year, $1.2 million grant by the Exxon Valdiz Oil Spill Trustee Council to try to find out why oil from the Exxon Valez spill in Alaska 18 years ago is still polluting the shore. Michel Boufadel, chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering in Temple’s College of Engineering, and grad students will travel to Prince William Sound to investigate. |
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March 23, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer, KYW radio
Federal Judge Lowell A. Reed Jr. said a broadly worded 1998 attempt by Congress to prevent children from viewing internet porn was unconstitutional. Temple constitutional professor David Kairys said the judge’s ruling – unlike the law – was clear. “Kairys, a veteran Philadelphia civil rights lawyer and constitutional expert, said Reed's decision ‘is very straightforward. It follows a long tradition of First Amendment analysis that goes back to the earliest cases involving Playboy magazine,” wrote reporter Joseph Slobodzian. |
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March 23, 2007 | International Herald-Tribune
In an op-ed, Temple University Japan professor Jeff Kingston discusses the opportunities that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has missed during his brief tenure. "Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has rekindled controversy about Japan's wartime past by quibbling over the degree of coercion used in recruiting the so-called comfort women, a system involving some tens of thousands of mostly teenaged Korean girls sent to frontline brothels for Japanese soldiers." |
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March 22, 2007 | KYW radio
Temple history professor James Hilty discussed the brewing fight between President Bush and Congress over subpoenas that would try to get White House staffers to testify on the growing attorney general scandal. Hilty said Congress can ask the president for any information but only in criminal concerns is the president obligated to turn over information. |
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President Hart's Inauguration
March 22-23, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Business Journal, Associated Press, InsideHigherEd.com, ABC6, Temple News, Daily News.
The announcement by President Ann Weaver Hart that she and her husband would pay student application fees for passports as a means of encouraging international studies drew wide attention during her inauguration ceremony. "If Temple does not internationalize teaching, research and community outreach, we will be increasingly left behind in a dynamic and changing world," she said. "Temple is distinctly poised to become a truly global university."
President Hart also introduced Temple's new provost, Lisa Staiano-Coico, currently the dean of Cornell University's College of Human Ecology.
Watch a webcast of the inauguration |
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March 22, 2007 | Daily News
Phoenix has surpassed Philadelphia to become the fifth largest city in the U.S., but does it matter? David Bartelt, a professor of geography and urban studies at Temple University, says size doesn't matter: "I'm one of those folks who has a particular jaundiced eye toward individual cities and their population size having meaning." He also points out that "Phoenix cheats. It gets to change its boundaries. |
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March 22, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
The Perkiomen Bridge Hotel has been a fixture since the late 1600s, but several business failures might spell the end of the historic structure. “The region's old inns can present painful choices, said Temple University professor Morris Vogel, an authority on Philadelphia history. It's important for local leaders to look hard at what a building means and what it offers, to imaginatively envision new uses, he said. But not every structure can be saved, and people should not ‘feel obligated to maintain buildings that can't play a role in the community.’” |
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March 22, 2007 | Daily News
Longtime Temple track coach Jack “The Saint” St. Clair passed away yesterday after a long illness. He was 80. |
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March 22, 2007 | Daily News
The day after losing to No. 1 seed Duke in the NCAA championships, Temple women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley was praising her team and looking forward to next year. "We worked toward our goals. There weren't too many basketball games where we didn't play our hearts out. We could have been smarter in certain situations, but I am proud to be associated with this team and these young ladies,” Staley said. |
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March 22, 2007 | Daily News, Philadelphia Inquirer
Although they fought hard, Temple women’s basketball team lost in the second round of the NCAA championships against No. 1 seed Duke. "We're at the point where we're going to be in basketball games with the No. 1 team in the country and we're going to be in games with the No. 200 team in the country," said Coach Dawn Staley. "We need a big win, and that's the next step this program has to take. |
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March 22, 2007 | Daily News, CBS3, ABC6, NBC10
Temple film students were among those who had a chance to see Halle Berry and Giovanni Rabisi discuss their new film during a preview showing in Philadelphia. |
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March 22, 2007 | Centre Daily
Gov. Rendell’s plan to develop an investment fund to improve higher education facilities has the approval of prominent state education leaders. Rendell has pitched the Jonas Salk Legacy Fund since last year. Temple University President Ann Weaver Hart, in a March 2 letter to Rendell, said her university endorses the Salk Fund plan. |
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March 22, 2007 | ScienceDaily.com
Some 18 years after the Exxon Valdez ran aground and spilled nearly 11 million gallons of crude oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound, the oil continues to cause environmental problems along some of Alaska's shoreline. To help determine why the oil continues to linger long after experts predicted it would disappear, Temple University has been awarded a three-year, $1.2 million grant by the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council. "Every indication tells us that the oil should have biodegraded," says Michel Boufadel, chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering in Temple's College of Engineering and the principal investigator for the grant. "But what we've seen is there are still plenty of places where the oil still exists." |
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March 21, 2007 | NBC10, “Live@Five”
President Ann Weaver Hart discussed the future of Temple University during a live interview in anticipation of her inauguration March 22. Topics included the increasingly residential nature of the student body and ongoing faculty recruitment. |
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March 21, 2007 | KYW radio
Temple alumni Daryl Hall and John Oates will headline Philadelphia’s July 4 celebration this year. |
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March 20, 2007 | Philadelphia Tribune
Stedman Graham, author and lecturer, encouraged students from William Penn High School to pursue knowledge about what they love during a recent visit to Temple. Graham’s visit was sponsored by Temple’s School of Tourism and Hospitality Management at the Fox School of Business. |
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March 20, 2007 | Daily News, Philadelphia Inquirer
Dawn Staley’s basketball team takes on No. 1 seed Duke Tuesday afternoon in the NCAA playoffs. "We're the ones that are probably going to play a little bit looser. The pressure is all on them. Our kids are going to come out, and we're going to fight and scratch and claw to stay in the basketball game," said Staley. |
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March 19, 2007 | FoxNews, “The O’Reilly Factor”
Temple professor Marc Lamont Hill discussed violence in urban schools with host Bill O’Reilly. While O’Reilly blamed rap music and slasher movies for creating a more violent society, Hill said students need more counselors and positive role models in their communities. |
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March 19, 2007 | Financial Times
Japan’s defense ministry is showing interest in European fighter jets, but the interest could be a way of goading U.S. jet makers to lower prices and offer more high technology. Robert Dujarric, a defense expert at Temple University Japan, said Japan would want the political insurance that went along with U.S. jets. He pointed out that Singapore and South Korea both considered buying European fighters before eventually opting for American technology. |
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March 19, 2007 | Associated Press, Philadelphia Inquirer
Temple’s women’s basketball team beat Nebraska in the first round of the NCAA championships Sunday night, 64-61. The win sets up a match with No. 1 ranked Duke on Tuesday. "They're very balanced and they can do a lot of things," Temple coach Dawn Staley said after seeing the Blue Devils in person yesterday. The winner of that game enters the Sweet 16. |
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March 18, 2007 | Daily News, WRTI, WHYY-FM
"At the annual John S. Bradway High School Mock Trial Competition on Saturday, Overbrook High School and the Franklin Learning Center went toe-to-toe in a debate over a fictional cyberstalking case involving two teenagers. Sponsored jointly by Temple University Law School and the Young Lawyers Division of the Philadelphia Bar Association, the debate was held at the National Constitution Center." |
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March 18, 2007 | Washington Post
When Justin Britt-Gibson was a Temple University student studying abroad in Italy a few years ago, he found the same carefree attitude towards racial mixing that he finds among most American “millennials.” When it comes to choosing friends or mates, race is not the dividing issue it once was, Britt-Gibson writes. |
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March 18, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Jackie Tanaka, a biology professor at Temple and a grandmother, is one of the “mature” women players on the Americans, a hockey team in the United Women’s Hockey League. "It's infectious," Tanaka said of the game. "I love it so much. I like the team concept. A scientist can be a lonely profession, but here, I have teammates supporting me on the ice and in the locker room." |
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March 18, 2007 | Bucks County Courier Times
As the nation faces the four-year anniversary of the war in Iraq, its impact on the domestic political scene grows. Robin Kolodny, an associate professor of political science at Temple University, said the war has changed the course of political debate. While Democrats and Republicans before argued over domestic issues, the war has opened foreign policy to a much larger debate. “It ended the old adage that politics ends at the water's edge,” Kolodny said. “Politics clearly exceed the water's edge now.” |
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March 16, 2007 | Agence France-Presse
“Disgraced dotcom tycoon Takafumi Horie was sentenced Friday to two and a half years in prison over a fraud scandal that also put Japan's new generation of free-wheeling capitalists on trial,” reports AFP. Horie’s personality could have hurt him with the judge. Horie "was mounting something of a PR campaign" defending himself during his six-month trial, instead of the more common strategy of showing contrition, said Jeffrey Kingston, director of Asian Studies at Temple University in Tokyo. "I think he did step on toes and that probably hurt him," he said. |
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March 16, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
In an op-ed touting recycling, writer Jonathan Bloom notes that “Temple University pays New Jersey pig farmer Bob Shisler to pick up cafeteria and hospital food waste, with two tons per day feeding Shisler's hogs instead of the waste stream.” |
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March 16, 2007 | Virginian-Pilot
Parents play an important role in discussing safe behavior with their teen-aged children. "As role models, parents are key," said Laurence Steinberg, Temple psychology professor. Steinberg said a recent survey found that "a quarter" of all parents engage in unsafe driving in front of their children, particularly when it comes to performing multiple tasks while driving. |
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March 15, 2007 | Radio Australia
Melanesians are among the most genetically diverse people in the world, according to a new study. Professor Jonathan Friedlander, from the Anthropology Department of Temple University in Philadelphia, has been doing research into mitochondrial DNA, which allows scientists to trace ancestry back many generations. Melanesians are one of the oldest societies still in existence, and they are helping scientists understand a lot about human origins. |
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March 15, 2007 | 6ABC
Temple University School of Medicine seniors celebrated Match Day, a nationwide event at which graduating students learn where they have "matched" with a residency program.
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March 15, 2007 | Associated Press
The decision by Philadelphia City Council to put a slots referendum on the city ballot could set up a clash between the state’s slots law and the city’s home rule authority, said Temple constitutional law professor David Kairys. "You can only make predictions, there's no certain answer to this," Kairys said. "But I would say that the way the Supreme Court has been going, it would probably rule against the interests in the city that want to limit gambling, or eliminate it." |
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March 15, 2007 | The Columbus Dispatch
Terrell Stafford, director of jazz studies at Temple, won praise from the music reviewer at The Columbus Dispatch for his part in a tribute to Miles Davis. |
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March 15, 2007 | KYW1060, TheAutoChannel.com
A new survey finds that parents are out of touch with their teenage drivers and what causes them to be unsafe on the roads. Temple University psychology professor Dr. Laurence Steinberg is associated with the study commissioned by the Allstate Foundation: "Most parents believe that alcohol is the main contributor to teen crashes and teen automobile fatalities, and that's not the case. Actually, it's reckless driving and driver errors and having other kids in the car while a teenager is driving." |
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March 15, 2007 | CBC News, Washington Post
Temple researchers have found biomarkers that could herald the onset of disabling repetitive stress injuries. "While not a diagnostic test, because the biomarkers could also indicate another type of injury, they do provide a red flag where before there was none," said Ann Barr, an associate professor of physical therapy at Temple's College of Health Professions. |
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March 14, 2007 | New York Times
There is no medical evidence that coffee can cause stomach upset. “It’s as much mythology as anything,” said Dr. Joel E. Richter, chief of medicine at Temple University’s School of Medicine in Philadelphia and past president of the American College of Gastroenterology. “The evidence that coffee is injurious to the stomach isn’t there.” |
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March 14, 2007 | Gulf Times
“The concept of literacy has undergone changes all over the world including in the Middle East region, feels Renee Hobbs, a professor at the Philadelphia-based Temple University School of Communications and Theatre. 'Being literate doesn’t any longer mean one’s ability to just read and write, but also in a great way his capabilities to understand and react, if necessary, to what others say,’ said Hobbs.” |
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March 14, 2007 | ABC News
Certain teens are going to do dangerous stunts because they feel the need for a thrill. "Thrill-seekers are low in arousal in the nervous system. And they want to get their arousal up so they seek stimulation," said Dr. Frank Farley of Temple University. Farley has studied risk behavior for 30 years and refers to risk-takers as "T-types," the "T" standing for thrill-seekers. He said that T-types had traditionally been males, but that more girls were becoming risk-takers as social barriers dropped. |
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March 14, 2007 | Daily News
Counseling is available to college students who become addicted to gambling, although it is not reported as a frequent problem at schools like Temple and the University of Pennsylvania. |
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March 13, 2007 | Daily News
In an op-ed, Temple adjunct education professor Gloria Endres writes about the ongoing issue of teacher safety in public schools. “The teacher, often alone and unprotected, is responsible for stopping fights or confronting misbehavior. Discipline is applied haphazardly, limited by rules originally meant to protect the rights of children, especially those with disabilities,” she writes. |
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March 13, 2007 | Daily News
A profile of popular preacher Alyn Waller includes an interview with his wife. “An adjunct professor at Temple University, Ellyn Waller is currently working on a doctorate in language, and is as socially aware and intense as Waller on contemporary issues like AIDS and education. ‘Our conversations at home can get pretty deep,’ she said, ‘but we've also developed this ability to critique one another.’ ” |
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March 13, 2007 | Metro, Philadelphia Inquirer
The FAA is considering a plan that would add air traffic over Delaware County communities, angering local residents. “Shirley Loveless, a Temple University research fellow who specializes in how transportation policies affect communities, said the FAA's environmental-impact study had failed to look at numerous quality-of-life and transportation-planning issues,” wrote Inquirer reporter Tom Belden. |
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March 13, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News
Temple women’s basketball team received at at-large bid to the NCAA tournament last night and the team was ecstatic. The Owls (24-7) received an eighth seed in the Greensboro Regional and were placed in the same group as top-ranked Duke, the overall No. 1 seed. |
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March 12, 2007 | ABC6
With high-definition television and radio in the digital age producing audio so clear it sounds like the person is in the room or vehicle with us, why does telephone audio still sound so bad? Temple engineering associate professor John Helferty and assistant professor Iyad Obeid, explain that unlike television or radio, the telephone is not one voice being transmitted over one wire or one frequency. |
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March 12, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
The NCAA committee's tournament draw for the women’s basketball playoffs will be announced tonight at 8 on ESPN. "In the past, we've taken care of business and not left it in the hands of the committee, so this will be different for us," Temple coach Dawn Staley said after eventual A-10 champion Xavier ended the Owls' run of three straight conference crowns. |
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March 12, 2007 | BBC
Japan’s royal family might seem like privileged people, but their lives are strictly regulated by those around them. Professor Jeffrey Kingston from Temple University in Tokyo describes them as "a set of bureaucrats who keep the family on a tight rein and ensure that all of its members carry out their duties according to its dictates." |
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March 12, 2007 | Fox29, “Good Day Philadelphia”
Michael Mancano, associate professor at the School of Pharmacy, answered viewers' questions on the program's "Ask the Expert" segment. "Is there a difference between brand name and generic drugs?" one viewer asked. Mancano replied that both have the same ingredients and the same effects, but generics cost less. |
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March 12, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Researchers Ann Barr and Mary Barbe, of the College of Health Professions, have found that certain biochemicals tend to build up in the blood of those injured by repetitive motion. Someday, it's hoped that their findings will lead to a means of early detection of such injuries, which include carpal tunnel syndrome, before permanent damage occurs. |
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March 12, 2007 | KYW radio
The city of Philadelphia has put thousands of photos on a website offering a view of the city’s past for researchers and the curious. Heather Newlin is a graduate student majoring in public history at Temple University: "It's kind of like a glimpse into the past. You can visualize the things you've been reading about." |
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March 11, 2007 | Wilkes-Barre Times Leader
Temple University law professor Jan Ting will be able to testify in the federal court case involving the city of Hazelton’s Illegal Immigration Relief Act. |
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March 10 – 11, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer, Associated Press
Temple senior Steve Wood spent his spring break on the streets of Philadelphia for a series he will write in the Temple News about the lives of the homeless. “I wanted to try to get into their world, to delve into their culture, to explore a world that everybody's around but not many know,” Wood told the Inquirer’s Melissa Dribben. “I wanted to put a face to the homeless.” |
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March 10, 2007 | The New York Times
The Carnegie Hall debut of Temple artists-in-residence iPalpiti — an orchestral ensemble of young musicians, including several Boyer students, conducted by Boyer College of Music and Dance faculty recruit Eduard Schmieder — was described as "vibrant" by reviewer Vivien Schweitz: "It was as if the musicians' hearts were beating in the same buoyant rhythm." The string orchestra played selections by Shostakovich ("played with verve") and Tchaikovsky ("lustrous, polished tone and graceful phrasing...played with youthful ardor"). |
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March 10, 2007 | Orlando Sentinel
Email and digital videos move business faster and entertain millions, but digital files are also hard to expunge. "You hit the 'send' button, and it goes into eternity," says Frank Farley, a psychologist at Temple University in Philadelphia and a longtime observer of popular culture. "We still have the idea that e-mail is sort of anonymous, that it's just going to one other person. I'm sure Monica Lewinsky thought her e-mail exchanges [about Bill Clinton] would never see the light of day. She had deleted them, but the FBI was able to find them." |
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March 10, 2007 | Columbus Disptach
Terrell Stafford, director of Jazz studies at Temple University, will lead a tribute to jazz great Miles Davis next week. |
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March 10, 2007 | International Herald Tribune
YouTube has hit Japan and reporter Jeremy Lemer writes that the impact has been dramatic. “In the past, music and movies have been the products of choice, said Kyle Cleveland, a sociologist and the head of the Institute of Contemporary Japanese Studies at Temple University's Japan Campus. Now there is YouTube. ‘It represents the diversity of international youth culture and also allows Japanese youth to participate in that conversation,’ Cleveland said.” |
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March 9, 2007 | Fox 29, “Good Day Philadelphia”
Temple podiatrist, Howard Palamarchuk answered viewers questions about their foot health for the program's "Ask the Expert" segment. Topics ranged from relief for heel pain to the harmful effects of various women's shoe styles. |
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March 9, 2007 | Delaware County Times
Local Republicans still have a larger registration base, and it is unclear if voters will give local Democrats the same edge they enjoyed nationally in the midterm elections. “Michael Hagen, a political science professor and director of Temple University’s Institute for Public Affairs, said ‘it’s not a foregone conclusion’ that local Democratic candidates will be able to harness their party’s national momentum. ‘Republican candidates will be making the argument … that there’s a long way from Washington to Delaware County and the decisions that they’ll be making in those offices don’t have a whole heck of a lot to do with who the Speaker of the House is,’ Hagen said. |
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March 9, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
The new Temple University Press book, A Guide to the Great Gardens of the Philadelphia Region, receives praise in a review by Virginia A. Smith. |
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March 9, 2007 | Chronicle of Higher Education
What do you do if you are a working professor who wants to attend a professional conference but can’t find child care? Laura Levitt, director of Jewish studies at Temple University, and her colleagues set out to show that child care can be consistent with academic conferences. |
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March 9, 2007 | Chronicle of Higher Education
In his review of the book The Problem of Evil: Slavery, Freedom, and the Ambiguities of American Reform, John David Smith notes that in one of the book’s essays “David Waldstreicher, a professor of history at Temple University, revises Benjamin Franklin's vaunted reputation as one of the new nation's earliest antislavery proponents. … Waldstreicher convincingly argues that for much of his adult life, Franklin benefited directly and indirectly from slavery." |
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March 8, 2007 | Jewish Exponent
Mentoring programs can prove invaluable to seniors building a network to help them after graduation. Temple University junior Bryanna Cohen, one of roughly 200 students who attended a recent session, said she was impressed by those willing to help upcoming graduates. "This is an incredible opportunity to build networks," said the double major in public relations and Jewish studies.
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March 8, 2007 | Seattle Times
A Philadelphia Inquirer story that featured biologist Keith Latham’s lab in a look at the progress of cloning in the decade since the birth of Dolly, also appears in the Seattle Times. Latham studies cloning at the first stage of life, which reveals a vast difference in the way the cloned embryos read and express the genetic code, which might explain why some cloned animals are different from those conceived the usual way. "Cloned embryos suffer an identity crisis," he said. |
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March 8, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Wayne Hardin, who compiled a 118-74-5 record as head football coach at Temple and Navy, is one of eight coaches on the 2007 Football Bowl Subdivision ballot for induction into the College Football Hall of Fame. Hardin, who compiled an 80-52-3 record from 1970 to 1982 at Temple, led the Owls to a 10-2 record, a Garden State Bowl win and a No. 17 ranking in 1979. |
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March 7, 2007 | Science and Society.net
Antonio Giordano, director of the Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine and director of the Center for Biotechnology in the College of Science and Technology, discussed his career, his research and the philosophy behind the success of the Sbarro Institute on Science and Society, a weekly Internet podcast that features conversations with scientists, researchers industry-leading executives, and senior government officials on medical breakthroughs, energy and the environment, nanotechnology, space exploration, planetary science, and K-12 science education. |
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March 7, 2007 | Medscape.com
A recent study of diets found that those on a low carb diet lost more weight over time. “Gary Foster, PhD, from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, whose group is also conducting a randomized controlled trial, including a low-carbohydrate diet group, looking at 2-year outcomes, commented on the findings …. ‘This study is important because it compares popular diets that are used by many overweight Americans to lose weight. So to have some data on how these stack up against each other is really helpful. The results seem to support by and large what previous work at one year has shown, meaning that the reduction is not much different between the groups at one year.’ ” |
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March 7, 2007 | United Press International, Earthtimes.com, Science Daily, Medical News Today
Blood tests can now reveal several types of chemical biomarkers linked to repetitive-motion injuries, say Pennsylvania researchers. The study, published in Clinical Science, compared blood tests of people suffering from repetitive-stress injuries -- such as carpal tunnel syndrome, tendonitis and other wrist and shoulder injuries -- to blood tests of healthy subjects. Temple University researchers Ann Barr and Mary Barbe and doctoral student Stephen Carp found the immune system pumps out chemical biomarkers as the body begins to become injured by repetitive motions. |
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March 7, 2007 | The Live Desk with Martha MacCallum, Fox News Channel
A current American Idol contestant has been allowed to remain on show despite racy pictures appearing on the Internet, when a previous contestant who was African-American was kicked off for similar behavior. Urban studies professor Marc Lamont Hill said, “I don’t think this is merely a race issue, but clearly this can be drawn along race lines at some level. They both essentially did the same thing.” |
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March 7, 2007 | Arthur Fennel Reports, CN8
Director James Cameron’s new documentary on alleged discovery of Jesus Christ’s tomb has reopened the God versus science debate and whether there are such things as miracles. Michael Balsai, an instructor in biology who teaches evolution, said that he believes in science. |
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March 7, 2007 | Wired News
Researchers at Temple University tested the blood of nine healthy people and 22 volunteers who suffered from various types of repetitive stress injuries, such as carpal tunnel syndrome. This simple blood test could provide both definitive physical proof of repetitive stress injury and an early warning for potential victims. “They do provide a red flag where before there was none," said Ann Barr, associate professor of physical therapy. |
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March 6, 2007 | The Daily Journal
Why did a man kill his former girlfriend and then himself? "Lots of people get rejected in relationships, so it's got to be more than that," said Frank Farley, a psychologist and instructor at Temple University in Philadelphia. "You start wondering," Farley said Monday. "Was he not well already? Why was he rejected? Had this thing been falling apart for some time?" |
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March 6, 2007 | FOX29, “Good Day Philadelphia”
Temple psychologist Frank Farley discusses why we judge people on their physical appearance, for a story on why tooth whitening has become such a huge industry.
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March 6, 2007 | The Sacramento Bee
What's the appeal of Frank Warren’s website, www.postsecret.com, which lets people anonymously air their sins and fears? Frank Farley, psychology professor at Temple University and former president of the American Psychological Association, said PostSecret helps people “feel part of something larger than themselves. They may have a secret they’re keeping with themselves, and they post it and feel connected with other people who are revealing secrets.” |
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March 6, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Marc Stier, a Temple professor, is one of several candidates hoping to unseat Philadelphia City Council incumbents. "I think all the incumbents are vulnerable this year," said Stier, who is seeking one of five at-large seats held by Democrats. "People are totally fed up with the direction of politics in the city. I think this is really the year." |
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March 6, 2007 | Daily News
Columnist Deborah Leavy writes that actions like “stop and frisk” can be problematic in their execution, and do nothing to get the number of guns off Philadelphia streets. "In Pennsylvania, it is hard to make a gun illegal," says Temple law professor David Kairys. "In some neighborhoods you can buy a gun [legally] on just about any corner." Permits are easy to get, and with one, you can buy as many guns as you want. |
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March 5, 2007 | The Fort Wayne News-Sentinel
A story about Frank Warren’s website, www.postsecret.com, which lets people anonymously air their sins and fears and features psychology’s Frank Farley, continues to appear in newspapers. Farley, former president of the American Psychological Association, said PostSecret helps people “feel part of something larger than themselves. They may have a secret they’re keeping with themselves, and they post it and feel connected with other people who are revealing secrets.” |
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March 5, 2007 | The Washington Post
When Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says that Japan will not apologize again for forcing women to act as wartime sex slaves for its soldiers, he does so because he “is unpopular and he is trying to mobilize his core supporters, who tend to be sort of right-wing and nationalist,” said Phil Deans, a professor of international affairs at Temple University’s Japan Campus. |
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March 5, 2007 | ABC6
Temple's Center for Obesity Research and Education (CORE) is seeking volunteers for a clinical trial to test a new weight drug. The drug combines small doses of 2 medications – bupropion, better known as Welbutrin, which is used to stop smoking, and naltrexone, which is used for alcohol addiction. Gary Foster, PhD, director of CORE, said he hopes study participants will be able to lose 8 to 10 percent of their body weight. It should yield big health rewards. "A small amount of weight loss, like 5 to 10 percent, can have powerful effects on blood pressure, blood glucose, and cholesterol. Even a 5 percent weight loss can reduce the chance of developing type 2 diabetes by 60 percent." |
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March 5, 2007 | KYW radio
In light of all the recent problems and reports that show the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is conducting less food safety inspections then in previous years, Temple public health professor and food safety expert Jennifer Ibrahim says this is just part of a greater problem. “We're putting all the onus on the government, but I think from a public health perspective more could be done to increase linkages with private (sectors). And we know that private has much more capacity and flexibility to be able to respond to these things and also it's important that we're not being reactive," she said. |
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March 5, 2007 | Reuters, Financial Times
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said that Japan would not apologize again for forcing women to act as wartime sex slaves during World War II, even if U.S. lawmakers adopt a resolution calling for an apology. Abe’s decision has more to do with wooing domestic support than appeasing U.S. interests. "Abe is unpopular and he is trying to mobilize his core supporters, who tend to be sort of right-wing and nationalist," said Phil Deans, a professor of international affairs at Temple University's Japan Campus.
The story was also reported in the Financial Times, where Temple’s Jeffrey Kingston is quoted discussing Abe’s verbal gymnastics on the issue. “Jeffrey Kingston, professor of Asian studies at Temple University in Tokyo, said: ‘It reminds me of [former US president Bill] Clinton’s: It depends on what your definition of “is” is. This kind of legalistic loophole doesn’t play well.’ ” |
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March 5, 2007 | Daily News
The lead editorial urges the School Reform Commission to take a hard look at the future of city schools even if ending its current plan of school oversight is not popular. “At one public meeting held last week as part of the SRC's review, for example, one of the worse performing EMOs, Temple University, which oversees four schools, received strong vocal support from parents. They spoke of how well their children were reading, how things are much better in the schools, how they needed Temple.” |
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March 4, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer, The Reporter
Horticulture and landscape architecture students from Temple University's Ambler College took Best of Show in the educational category for their display "The Poetic Landscape of Ireland.” |
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March 4, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
In a front page story, a poll by the Economy League of Greater Philadelphia conducted by Temple’s Institute for Public Affairs found city voters highly skeptical about the next mayor’s ability to make real change. “If the public is this cynical, do they really trust whoever wins to make the changes needed?" asked Michael G. Hagen, director of Temple’s IPA. |
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March 4, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
A Temple doctorial student was charged with destroying computer records as federal agents came to his apartment while investigating a child pornography case. |
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March 3, 2007 | WRTI, "Creatively Speaking!"
Violinist and conductor Eduard Schmieder, the Boyer College of Music and Dance's new Laura H. Carnell Professor of Violin, tells host Jim Cotter about his life in the Soviet Union, his commitment to teaching great young musicians and his international orchestra of young laureates, iPalpiti, currently artists-in-residence at Temple. With Schmieder at the baton, iPalpiti will make its Philadelphia debut tonight at 8 p.m. at the historic Rodeph Shalom synagogue at 615 N. Broad St. (free and open to the public). |
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March 3, 2007 | CNN Headline News
Frank Farley, Temple psychologist, talks about the ability teens now have to show off their dubious behavior on social networking sites like MySpace and YouTube. Farley said behavior that once would only be witnessed by a friend or two can now be recorded, post to these sites and viewed by thousands, giving teens a much bigger stage to create their brief notoriety. |
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March 2, 2007 | USA Today
Despite growth in some evening network news viewing, Katie Couric’s show at CBS is struggling. What does that mean? "The evening news programs have become so irrelevant that it doesn't make much difference whether a man or a woman sits in the anchor chair," Christopher Harper, associate journalism professor, Temple University, and former ABC News correspondent. |
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March 2, 2006 | WHYY radio
Angie Makris, PhD, RD, an assistant professor from Temple's Center for Obesity Research and Education (CORE), discussed on WHYY's local morning show various issues related to healthy living, including what trans fats do to our bodies, how we need to exercise more and the projects taking place at CORE. |
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March 1, 2007 | CNN, “Paula Zahn Now”
Marc Lamont Hill, assistant professor of urban education and American Studies, joins a roundtable discussion of contemporary news stories, including the implications of Bill Clinton using his former presidential status to earn money that could go to help his wife’s presidential campaign. |
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March 1, 2007 | ABC6
Sara Soloman, MPH, RD, from Temple's Center for Obesity Research and Education commented on Philadelphia city council's initiative to require chain restaurants in the city to list nutritional information for all menu items. Soloman said it's a step in the right direction. Hopefully, someone would consider a 500-calorie meal instead of a 1000-calorie meal, or realize they should not consume 1000 calories (half of what you need in one day) in one sitting. |
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March 1, 2007 | Jewish Exponent
“Boyer College of Music and Dance at Temple University, long considered a major national school for training artists, is a proper home for the esteemed Eduard Schmieder, who just assumed the position of the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Violin.” Says David F. Tilman in the lead to a profile of Schmieder. Tilman describes the dramatic life that has brought Schmieder to Temple. |
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March 1, 2007 | Jewish Exponent
Temple Trustee and School of Law alumnus Leonard Barrack is profiled as part of his nomination to be the Jewish Federation’s next chair. |
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March 1, 2007 | Lansdale Reporter
Temple Ambler students are excited about their part in the Philadelphia Flower Show. “There’s always pressure (to impress the judges)‚” said junior landscape architecture major Kwatee Stamm. “We got the first 100 percent scoring (in the amateur division) two years ago‚ and we want to do that again.” |
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March 1, 2007 | Fox29, Philadelphia Inquirer
Students at Temple University met last night to build support for reviving the Black Student Union at Temple. |
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March 1, 2007 | Radio New Zealand
Temple anthropology professor Jonathan Friedlaender discusses his study of the DNA of Melanesians. Melanesians have significant differences in their mitochondrial DNA that can be linked to where they live, the size of their home island and the language they speak: “So we have a very intensive study of the variation you see within island groups and then between island groups. And what we found is that it’s really quite extraordinary the variation you find on these islands - very unlike what you find in other parts of the world.” |
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