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August 31, 2007 | Forbes
If you've tried loading up on fruits, vegetables and whole grains and still can't get relief from constipation, maybe you need more than a boost of fiber. Dr. Henry P. Parkman, a professor of medicine and director of the GI Motility Laboratory at Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, said he uses biofeedback -- a form of complementary medicine in which the patient uses the mind to control the body -- quite a bit in his own practice. The technique is being used to combat constipation in some patients. |
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August 31-Sept. 6 issue | Philadelphia Business Journal
“In a region with about a dozen major league teams, 83 college sport teams, some of the nation's most significant historic sites, and a thriving hotel and restaurant scene, there will never be a shortage of work for professionals trained in tourism and hospitality management. Elizabeth H. Barber, associate dean and associate professor of the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management at Temple University, should know,” writes Wafa Musitief. “Barber's program has trained most of the athletic directors and assistant athletic directors working for teams in the region. Graduates from the program are routinely recruited by hotels like Hyatt International and Marriott International and by every major city sports team from the Eagles to the Flyers to the Phillies. ‘Tourism is what Philly is about,’ Barber said.” |
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August 31, 2007 | Daily News
For the fifth straight season, Navy opens the season with a different starting quarterback. This time, it's junior Kaipo-Noa Kaheaku-Enhada, who did start the last six games (one at slotback) after Brian Hampton injured a knee. The top two rushers, seniors Adam Ballard and Reggie Campbell, also return to an option offense that averaged a Division I-A-best 327 yards per game on the ground. That's what Temple must deal with tonight at the Linc, as another season kicks off. Last November, the Owls closed with a 42-6 loss at Navy. |
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August 31, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
With his football team set to begin its 2007 season against Navy tonight at 7:30 at Lincoln Financial Field, Temple coach Al Golden is expecting more from the Owls than they showed during a 42-6 loss to the Midshipmen at the end of last season in Annapolis, Md. |
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August 31, 2007 | Asahi Shibun
In an op-ed Robert Dujarric, director of the Institute of Contemporary Japanese Studies at Temple University's Japan Campus in Tokyo, says Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has failed to respond to the practical need of Japanese citizens. “Abe has shown little interest in figuring out how women can better contribute to the economy nor has he proposed any radical new thinking on immigration, which the country needs,” writes Dujarric. (Asahi Shibun is Japan’s largest English language daily.) |
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August 30, 2007 | Jewish Exponent
A growing number of college and university presidents, both nationally and regionally, have signed on to a petition, circulated by the American Jewish Committee, that condemns the proposed British academic boycott of Israel, and expresses solidarity with Israeli colleges and research institutions. "Temple University stands in full support of President Bollinger's statement, and will strenuously defend the academic freedom and participation rights of our Israeli colleagues in the worldwide academic community," Ann Weaver Hart, Temple's president, said in an early August statement. |
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August 30, 2007 | Daily News
“With schools in Philadelphia about to reopen, City Councilman Jack Kelly yesterday issued an alert on a staph infection that on rare occasions can become deadly. Kelly called a news conference outside City Hall to issue a warning about the dangers of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA). Dr. Rob Bettiker, of Temple University's Infectious Diseases Department, also at the conference, said that MRSA was once a staph infection mostly contracted in hospitals. In recent years, he said, MRSA has become a ‘community-acquired’ infection. It can now survive on a person's skin and can be transmitted through the sharing of towels, combs, razors, wash cloths or soaps,” writes Valerie Russ. |
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August 30, 2007 | Morning Call
Temple alumnus Andrew Orth has a new show of his work at the Reading Public Museum. “GQ and Harpers Bazaar Italy are among the magazines that have published his cool, warm portraits of actors, musicians and models. He specializes in making his subjects comfortable and slightly exotic, in restoring the private side of pretty public people.” |
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August 30, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
“When the 61st season of Mid-American Conference football kicks off tonight with three league teams in action, Temple will begin to get an idea of just what the Owls have gotten themselves into. Now a full member of the MAC after two seasons as an affiliate, Temple can compete in the championship race this year, and is also eligible for a bowl bid. Last fall, the Owls went 1-5 against league opponents on their way to a 1-11 finish in coach Al Golden's first season,” writes Kevin Tatum. |
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August 30, 2007 | Daily News
“Never lose sight of the fact that Temple football under second-year coach Al Golden is a process. So while all the parties involved would obviously prefer things to move in fast-forward, it is mostly about taking all the necessary steps,” says Mike Kern. |
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August 29-Sept. 4, 2007 | CNN Headline News/Comcast Newsmakers
Dr. Curtis Miyamoto, Medical Director of the Temple Cancer Center, is the guest of a Comcast Newsmakers interview segment now running regionally on the CNN Headline News TV channel. He discussed new tools and knowledge to treat cancers which were previously thought to be untreatable. The taped interview airs a total of 17 times during a one-week period. View the schedule by following the CNN link above. |
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August 28, 2007 | Reuters Health, Yahoo News, Scientific American
Lap belt injuries and the "seatbelt syndrome" are often associated with spinal cord injuries in children who have been improperly restrained when involved in a car accident, according to a study in the Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine. Bruising of the abdominal wall in a child restrained with a lap belt during a motor vehicle accident "should warrant a search for other injuries, including spinal cord injury, vertebral fractures, and intra-abdominal injuries," writes Dr. Harsh Grewal, of Temple University. |
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August 28, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Temple University is investing more than $26 million into Baptist Temple by turning its aging interior into a multi-purpose performance space to be open in late 2009. "We're making a major commitment to restoring it," said Tom McCreesh, director of planning and design for the university. "It's an interesting and magical structure." |
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August 28, 2007 | KYW radio
A Temple grad has helped produce an in-depth documentary on the Katrina disaster. Shortly after graduating from Temple University School of Communications and Theater, Sarah Radcliffe landed her first job at Taproot Productions in Chicago. "I began working on it as soon as I started my first day of work. The basic premise is that 600 New Orleans residents, largely African-American, were airlifted to Salt Lake City and they were put on a plane without any knowledge of where they were going and were pretty much given the go-ahead to start a new life there." |
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August 28, 2007 | Financial Times, Radio Australia
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has reshuffled his cabinet, but will it help him become more effective? “Jeff Kingston, a professor of Asian studies at Tokyo’s Temple University, is harsher still. ‘This is a transition cabinet that’s meant to forge party unity. But Abe is a lame duck living on borrowed time. I think he is past the point of no return.’” |
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August 28, 2007 | Fox News “The Big Story”
Temple professor Marc Lamont Hill joined a panel discussion about football player Michael Vick and the racial implications of his recent guilty plea. |
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August 28, 2007 | Washington Post
Federal, state and now local laws regarding immigration make enforcement very difficult. "You have this complex overlay of statutes and regulations and court cases, and you've got this federalism question of . . . what has traditionally been federal power and what the states can do," said Jan Ting, a Temple University law professor. "There could not be an area of law that is less clear than this, I think." |
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August 28, 2007 | NPR, “Morning Edition”
The King Tut exhibition has drawn millions of visitors to museums across the country since it opened two years ago. But some African-American scholars believe the exhibition makes King Tut look too white. "We asked the students as they were coming out of the museum, you've seen the exhibition of King Tut, 'Where is he from?'" Temple University professor Molefi Asante said. "You would discover that people can see the exhibition of Tutankhamen, and come out and not know that they have seen Africa." |
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August 28, 2007 | Bucks County Courier Times
While almost one-quarter of Pennsylvania adults are considered obese, the state is doing better than much of the rest of the country. The state might be holding its own weight because of its involvement through the CDC with the Pennsylvania Advocates for Nutrition and Activity (PANA), a group addressing the obesity problem, said Gary Foster, director of the Center for Obesity Research and Education at Temple University. “Even if we are holding our own, but the national progression is up, it's a victory,” Foster said. |
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August 28, 2007 | Alternet.com
Thanks to Temple University math professor John Allen Paulos, it can be demonstrated mathematically why the threats to our civil liberties should be of more concern than terrorism threats. Paulos’ approach to terrorism draws on probability theory and a bit of common sense, specifically, on “the obvious fact that the vast majority of people of every ethnicity are not terrorists.” |
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August 27, 2007 | Financial Times
Shinzo Abe, Japanese prime minister, on Monday named a cabinet of veterans in an effort to restore credibility to his administration after it suffered a massive defeat in last month’s upper house elections. Jeff Kingston, professor of Asian studies at Temple University, said: “He’s brought in a lot of veterans and got rid of those who couldn’t shoot straight.” |
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August 27, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia’s prisons are “choking” on a record number of inmates, Robert Moran reports. “Seeking answers to the overcrowding problem, the city commissioned Temple University researchers led by John S. Goldkamp to conduct a yearlong study of the prison system. The Goldkamp report, issued in November, found that more than half the population were pretrial inmates who could not make bail. ‘This subpopulation may rank as the most productive area for review and development of population-reduction strategies,’ according to the report.”
In the same story, Ralph B. Taylor, a Temple University criminologist, said more focus must be put on the after care of inmates so they don't become repeat inhabitants of city prisons. "The real trick is to get people to think of post-prison care as part of their public-safety dollars," Taylor said. |
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August 26, 2007 | Baltimore Sun
"'Kindergarten has become the new first grade. We're so afraid that if we don't shove facts in, the children will fall forever behind, [and] schools have whipped themselves into an academic frenzy to push students to learn faster and earlier,' said Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, a Temple University psychology professor and author of Einstein Never Used Flashcards. Her work highlights a philosophical split between those who say the best learning occurs when a child explores concepts through play, and policymakers who push for a structured approach with more testing to see who is and isn't learning," writes Ruma Kumar and John-John Williams IV. |
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August 26, 2007 | Baltimore Sun
As the race for Baltimore's next mayor heats up, fighting crime is at the center of the candidates' debate. "Ralph B. Taylor, a criminal justice professor at Temple University, said the most important thing a mayor does on crime is hiring a talented police commissioner. Many of the initiatives that get tossed around at election time are questionable, he said. … Taylor also said hiring more police will reduce crime in the long run, but he said cities need to hire a lot of officers to have an effect and that can take years." |
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August 26, 2007 | KYW radio
A Temple University orthopedic surgeon thinks laughter is part of the best medicine. Jokes come naturally to Dr. John Kelly: "My father was a comedian. He was a very colorful guy back in Delaware who did a lot of shows and TV work and stand-up routines and I want to be like my Dad." Dr. Kelly does stand -up routines himself, not with scalpel in hand, but he believes a little levity goes a long way with patients. |
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August 25, 26 2007 | CBS3, ABC6, NBC10, Philadelphia Inquirer
The freshman class at Temple University got their hands dirty Saturday as part of the school’s public service project. They participated in "FreshServe 2007", a day of cleaning, painting and re-building. |
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August 25, 2007 | Phillyburbs.com
Risk management insurance expert Bill Aaronson believes the dental-medical insurance shift is a topic that merits deeper study, but he knows of no readily available related research. Part of the problem is when private health insurers decide to stop covering a procedure, it's an internal company matter, said Aaronson, a professor in the department of risk insurance and healthcare management for Temple University's Fox School of Business. “It's not easy to discern what is happening,” he said. |
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August 24, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer, CBS3, ABC6, Daily News, CN8, NBC10, Fox29
Move in is underway as Temple prepares for another academic year:
“It is Temple's good fortune that yesterday was so busy,” writes Jennifer Lin. “The freshman class of 4,300 is the largest ever - up 6 percent from a year ago. The university also has seen a spike in the number of students living on campus or nearby. With a reputation as a commuter school, Temple now has 10,000 of its 23,000 undergraduate students living in dorms or nearby apartments.” |
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August 24, 200 | U.S. News & World Report, Forbes, HealthDay (national news wire)
Obese fourth- fifth- and sixth-graders miss an average of 12 school days over the school year -- about two days more than their normal-weight peers, according to research published in the August issue of Obesity. "This is the first study of its kind," noted study author Gary Foster, director of the Center for Obesity Research and Education at Temple University in Philadelphia. "We're not saying that obesity leads to absenteeism, but whatever the relationship is, mathematically, as more kids get obese, more will be absent. That has lots of academic implications." |
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August 24, 2007 | The Diet Detective Podcast and 165 newspapers nationwide, KCBY CBS 11
Protecting our bones is obviously important, but figuring out exactly how to do that in terms of our diet can be confusing. "After age 35, both men and women start to lose bone at a slow rate of 1 to 2 percent per year. This bone loss is accelerated in menopausal women to about 5 percent per year for five to seven years, and then returns to 1 to 2 percent per year. Men don't go through the accelerated menopausal bone loss but continue to lose bone at the rate of 1 to 2 percent per year," says Primal Kaur, M.D., director of the Osteoporosis Clinic at Temple University School of Medicine and Hospital in Philadelphia. |
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August 24, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Temple football coach Al Golden has decided on his starters for the Owls' Aug. 31 season-opener against Navy, and it was no surprise when redshirt junior Adam DiMichele was listed above sophomore Vaughn Charlton at the quarterback position on the Owls' two-deep depth chart. |
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August 23, 2007 | KYW radio, ABC6
Temple law professor JoAnne Epps discussed the implications in the case of a man being charged with murder after a policeman he shot 41 years ago has died. Since there is no longer a statute of limitations on murder, the case could go forward, even though the defendant was found guilty of assault and has spent most of his life in jail, said Epps. |
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August 23, 2007 | Daily News
In the latest Philly Fitness and health podcast, Kimberly Garrison talks with Michael Brown, Ph.D. of the Department of Kinesiology at Temple University about a health issue many African-Americans may have without being aware of it, namely hypertension, or high blood pressure. Brown discusses how the problem seems to have different triggers for different people, and different ways to combat it. |
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August 23, 2007 | Metro
Fresh Serve is an opportunity for freshman Temple students to do community service in the greater Philadelphia area during their first weekend. “We really want to welcome the new freshmen to campus and to the city in the right way,” said Brendan Bailes, a senior majoring in communications and president of the Main Campus Program Board, which organizes events for students. “Instead of just giving them a regular tour or going around the city to tourist destinations, we really wanted to get them involved in the community that they’ll be living in for four or five years.” |
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August 23, 2007 | Daily News, Morning Call, The Intelligencer, Bucks County Courier Times
William Barnes faces a possible murder charge for the 41-year-old shooting of a police officer who died Sunday. “The question of whether Barnes can be charged with murder in the death of Barclay is a legal challenge, said James Shellenberger, a longtime law professor at Temple University. ‘Legally, I think they can prosecute him,’ said Shellenberger, a former Philadelphia assistant district attorney and chief staff counsel for the state Supreme Court's Criminal Procedural Committee. ‘There's no statute of limitations, no double jeopardy problem,’ he said.” |
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August 23, 2007 | KYW radio, ABC6
William Barnes faces a possible murder charge for the 41-year-old shooting of a police officer who died Sunday. “Now that Barclay has died of complications from his old wounds, could Barnes be tried for murder? Joanne Epps, associate dean at Temple Law School says it's possible: ‘It used to be in the olden days that you could only prosecute a case for murder if the victim died within a year and a day of the events -- but that's been changed and now there is no statute of limitations for murder.’ ” |
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August 23, 2007 | CN8, KYW radio
Students are moving into their residence hall rooms at Temple University today in preparation for classes beginning next week. Michael Scales, director of university housing and residence life, talked about how to get students ready for living in a residence hall.
On KYW, Scales discussed the concept of the “roommate pre-nup,” an agreement between roommates that sets out how their rules for living together. |
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August 23, 2007 | New Hampshire Public Radio
Runners are a passionate lot. When it rains or snows, they're more determined than even the most earnest mailman. Michael Sachs, professor of kinesiology in the College of Health Professions, explains the seductive nature of recreational running. Where is the line between passion and addiction, and what does it mean to be addicted to running -- in a positive sense?
Program will be available after 6:30 pm, 8/23/07 |
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August 23, 2007 | Fox29 “Good Day Philadelphia”
As students head back to school, Dr. Andrea McCoy, pediatrician at the School of Medicine and Hospital, offered the latest information on the vaccinations recommended for each age group. "The recommendation for chickenpox dose number 2 for all kids is new and Hepatitis A vaccine for all school age kids is new," she explained. |
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August 23, 2007 | Courier Post
“We're making so much progress, not just in the classroom, but in the community, up on the campus, the overall work ethic. We certainly look so much different than we did a year ago. Anybody standing out there, that's not even a football fan, can look and see we're starting to look like a football program and a football team," Coach Al Golden told the Courier Post. |
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August 23, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Sports writer Kevin Tatum noted: “Yesterday marked the first time the Owls appeared in public wearing their new uniforms, with the Temple T placed at the V of the jersey collar, and no names on the back of the jersey. Clad in sparkling cherry-colored tops with white numbers and trim, and white pants with blocks of red on both legs, the team interacted with followers who showed up for a fan festival that followed the media session. The sports information department gave a crowd estimate of 3,000.” |
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August 23, 2007 | Daily News
Steve King focused on other changes Golden has made to build team spirit: “In an effort to develop a more player-driven team, second-year coach Al Golden added a new curriculum to the workouts: the Team Power Week. Players were mandated to arrive at a specific location in the city by a certain time - most often 5 a.m. - with just a few hours' notice.” |
August 22, 2007 | Metro
“Temple University was named the No. 1 school when it comes to a diverse student body according to the latest edition of the Princeton Review’s “Best 366 Colleges,” which was released yesterday,” writes Mike Benner in a page 1 story. “Many experts have long hailed diversity as an important factor in education, noting that a diverse environment promotes personal growth, a sense of community and critical thinking. It has also become a deciding factor as students choose a college, possibly accounting for Temple’s nearly 18 percent increase in enrollment since 2000.” |
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August 22, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Diane D. Turner, a former curator at the African American Museum of Philadelphia who has devoted much of her professional career to preserving and documenting black life in the region, has been named curator of the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection at Temple University. "I'm really excited about this opportunity," Turner said yesterday. "Of course Mr. Blockson had created a wonderful collection, and now we're going to have a new space and more room. We're looking to making it visitor-friendly for scholars and researchers and also having an area for display, where we can have changing exhibitions. We are going to establish outreach programs to make people aware of what they have in the collection." |
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August 22, 2007 | Bloomberg News
Why have athletics and hip-hop artists become involved in dog fighting? “For men, I think the dogs are an extension of masculinity,” says Marc Lamont Hill, a professor of American Studies at Temple University in Philadelphia. “The ability to use and control a gun is seen as a sign of manhood. In some ways, the dog serves as a proxy for the gun.” |
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August 21, 2007 | City Paper
Michael Ryan is a longtime Philadelphian who is taking part in the Temple Fox School of Business' International M.B.A. program. He is studying in Mumbai, India for the next semester. |
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August 21, 2007 | Philadelphia Tribune
Tribune staff writer Ayana Jones interviewed Ala Stanford Frey, the new head of the Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities at the School of Medicine. Frey talked about the future of the center, which includes implementing programs to address the disproportionate numbers of people in the North Philadelphia community suffering from preventable, treatable diseases. Frey spoke of her newly implemented CATTCH program (Creating Access Through Temple Children's Hospital), which is geared towards treating young victims of violence on a physical, mental and scholastic level. |
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August 21, 2007 | Daily News, Inquirer
Former Temple football coach Wayne Hardin says he believes it is possible to draw 66,000 people to the home game against Navy on August 31. “When I was there," he said, "maybe 400 to 500 students lived on campus. Now, there are 10,000 students living on, or near the campus. They've got a brand-new student-union building as good as any in the country. Anyone who criticizes the Temple campus, just hasn't been there. It's time people became aware of Temple,” said Hardin.
Meanwhile, coach Al Golden is still looking at his team and making decisions about who will play in the opening game. |
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August 21, 2007 | Reuters
Seven decades have yet to ease the bitterness surrounding wartime Japanese troops' occupation of the Chinese city of Nanjing, but they have inspired a raft of new films due out this year. "Nanjing stirs up passions because, like the Holocaust or the Armenian genocide or the Cambodian killing fields, it is an affront to human dignity," Professor Phil Deans, an expert on Sino-Japanese relations at Temple University in Kyoto, said. |
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August 21, 2007 | USA Today.com
According to the Princeton Review’s latest report on the best 366 colleges in the nation, students voted Temple University as the most diverse student body in the nation. |
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August 21, 2007 | Providence Journal
“If Congress would do what we did at a recent brain and learning conference in Boston — ask 50 teachers from 25 states if the No Child Left Behind Act is working — it would not reauthorize the act in its current form,” writes Temple professor Kathy Hirsh-Pasek and Roberta Golinko in an op-ed. “More than two-thirds of those 50 teachers, with an average of 23 years experience among them teaching in rural and urban communities and in rich and poor schools, said the legislation has only acted to hinder educational achievement. ‘Children are not being supported to advance,’ said one, ‘they’re being dragged along or held back.’” |
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August 20, 2007 | Legal Times
Jaya Ramji-Nogales, an assistant law professor at Temple University, was co-author of an article urging reform of the U.S. asylum system to eliminate chance from the process. “Unfortunately, pure chance plays too large a role in whether any particular asylum applicant is awarded refuge or is deported to a country where he fears serious harm, such as torture.” |
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August 20, 2007 | Chronicle of Higher Education
Academics can't seem to get enough of the Democratic senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama of Illinois. In its latest issue, the Journal of Black Studies examines "The Barack Obama Phenomenon." Given Mr. Obama's "apparent and rapid success in positioning himself as a viable and credible candidate for the presidency," his "quest for the White House provides scholars with a unique opportunity and lens to examine or re-examine race, arguably the most significant category in American society," writes Ama Mazama, an associate professor of African-American studies at Temple University, in an introduction to the issue. |
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August 20, 2007 | Metro
MyOwlSpace is a new social network made specifically for Temple University students and alumni. Designed to facilitate useful connections between alumni and students, this site was built for more than just posting photos and message board debates. “One of the cool features of the site is that alumni can sign up to be career mentors to students,” said Temple spokesman Mark Eyerly. “You can develop connections between people that you’ve never known, who may have graduated from Temple years before, but you have common interests.” |
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August 20, 2007 | CBS3
What should you bring, or leave behind, when it comes time to pack for your first university dorm room? Michael Scales, Temple’s director of university housing and residence life, recommends some items to leave behind. |
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August 20, 2007 | ZDNet.com
Establishing a legal framework in virtual environments, such as Second Life, will make them a more attractive place for businesses to invest, according to a U.S.-based law professor. David Post, a law professor at Temple University, noted that law, like in the real world, will also serve to protect businesses in virtual environments. "That's one of the reasons we have law in the real world," he said. "If you look at the evolution of legal systems in the West...you can't invest in your land without property law." |
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August 18, 2007 | United Press International
Researchers at Temple's Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, lead by Antonio Giordano, believe they may have unlocked the mechanisms that silences the estrogen receptor gene alpha during breast cancer progression. |
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August 18, 19, 2007 | CNN “House Call with Dr. Sanjay Gupta”, CNN Headline News
A new study by Gary Foster, professor and director of the Center for Obesity Research and Education, finds heavier kids are absent more from school than normal weight kids. "There's a lot of social stigma associated with being an overweight kid from bullying to teasing to even concerns about performing in PE classes," Foster said. |
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August 17, 2007 | CBS 3
TUHS Orthopaedic Surgeon Dr. John Kelly commented about "bouncing back" after an ACL-knee injury in a story that aired about Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb in the 6 pm newscast. |
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August 17, 2007 | Newsweek
Mary Winkler, who claimed that post traumatic stress disorder drove her to kill her husband, was freed last week after only 67 days in a mental health facility. Winkler's critics wonder if she ever had PTSD in the first place and say the diagnosis was just a means of getting off easy. "It doesn't have to come from being in a war zone or a terrorist attack," says David Baron, chair of the department of behavioral sciences and psychiatry at Temple University. "It's about being confronted with an event where there was a threat of death or serious injury. You can see it with physical and sexual assault." |
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August 17, 2007 | KYW radio
William Stull, professor at the Fox School of Business, discussed the impact of the Federal Reserve Board’s decision to lower the discount rate by one-half of a percent. Stull said the reduced rate will not lead immediately to lower interest rates for consumers but will increase the confidence of lenders and the general financial community. |
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August 16, 2007 | MSNBC
A story on how obesity in school children hurts their chances of learning success ran several times on MSNBC during its daily news reports. |
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August 16, 2007 | CN8, “It’s Your Call with Lynn Doyle”
Temple professor Marc Lamont Hill discusses popular music, including the different types of rap and hip-hop, with host Lynn Doyle. |
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August 16, 2007 | Fox Sports
In a pre-season forecast of MAC conference football teams, Pete Fiutak writes: "Buffalo is about a year away from being able to reel off consistent wins under Turner Gill, while Temple has the look of an emerging MAC power (yes, Temple) in a few years, with the building blocks being put in place with two great recruiting classes under head coach Al Golden." |
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August 16, 2007 | Scholastic Parents
Child development psychologist Kathy Hirsh-Pasek discusses the best ways to help your young child grow and learn in a series of online articles by Scholastic.
Motivate Your Kindergartner, Your 1st Grader, Your 2nd Grader, Your 3rd Grader, Your 4th Grader, Your 5th Grader |
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August 16, 2007 | Daily News
Using only items from her local craft store, Lizz Brown, 57, of Northeast Philadelphia, has created more than 200 personalized memorial plaques for families of the city's dead children. Brown, an emergency-room clerk for 25 years, works at Temple University Hospital ER. She's seen many of the people she would end up making plaques for as they were wheeled in. |
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August 15, 2007 | CBS3
Temple University neurologist Ausim Azizi discusses the dangers from lead paint in toys and the recent recall by Mattel. (Go to the link above and search for “Toy Recall Interview”) |
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August 15, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
When a local couple cut open their eggplant and saw the seeds seemed to spell the word, “GOD,” they decided it was worth calling the media. Now they’re exasperated with the nonstop attention. “There's a lesson to be learned from all of this - not about God, but about the 21st-century news media, according to Andrew Mendelson, chairman of Temple University's journalism department. It's hard to dip your toe in the fast-moving media whirlpool without risking getting sucked in. |
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August 15, 2007 | ABC News
Temple University Hospital's chief trauma surgeon Dr. Amy Goldberg says she wants to do more than simply treat the wounds that roll in each night. She wants to stop the violence. Goldberg has teamed up with Scott Charles, trauma outreach coordinator for the hospital, to create a program called "Cradle to the Grave." Together, they bring at-risk youth to the emergency room and demonstrate to them -- in graphic detail -- what getting shot is really all about. About 600 teens have gone through the “Cradle to Grave” program, and none have come back to the hospital as victims. |
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August 14, 2007 | CN8 “Art Fennel Reports”
Recent studies report 75 percent of Americans will be overweight by 2015 and that those who are overweight are more likely to have overweight friends/family. Eileen Ford, from Temple University's Center for Obesity Research and Education, shed light on these recent developments. She also talked about what the Center is doing to prevent and treat obesity. |
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August 14, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Who will lead the Temple Owls on the field for the home opener? “With the Owls due to open against Navy on Aug. 31 at Lincoln Financial Field, Temple coach Al Golden said he did not expect to name a starting quarterback until the week leading into his team's first game. The leading candidates are incumbent Adam DiMichele and sophomore Vaughn Charlton.” |
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August 14, 2007 | USA Today, Associated Press
"The happy marriage of modern spas and historic places is being driven by the demographics of the aging post-World War II generation, according to Joe Goldblatt, who teaches at Temple University's School of Tourism and Hospitality Management in Philadelphia. Goldblatt said spas with connections to historic places provide two things to aging boomers: a way to heal physical maladies, and an antidote to what he called "rootlessness." 'Baby boomers and even Gen-Xers are looking for ways to relieve the pain. These spas are offering pain relief, plus comfort and connections to history,' said Goldblatt." |
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August 13, 2007 | NPR, “The Story”
Temple University Hospital Trauma Outreach Coordinator, Scott Charles, and Chief of Trauma Surgery, Dr. Amy Goldberg, were interviewed for the NPR program The Story about the Cradle-to-Grave anti-violence program they created at TUH. |
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August 13, 2007 | NBC News channel (distributed to NBC TV stations nationwide)
Children whose safety seats or seat belts don't fit properly could be at an especially high risk for injury in auto accidents. A review of research by pediatric surgeon, Harsh Grewal, M.D., sheds light on "seat belt syndrome," where kids who were improperly restrained had serious spinal cord and abdominal injuries. |
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August 13, 2007 | NBC News channel (distributed to NBC TV stations nationwide)
School starts soon for most kids and a new study by Gary Foster, director of the Center for Obesity Research and Education, shows obese children will likely miss more classes than their peers. The reasons for the absenteeism could be medical problems like diabetes, as well as social and psychological issues related to rejection and bullying. |
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August 13, 2007 | San Antonia Express News
What makes someone a hero? Frank Farley, a psychologist from Temple University in Philadelphia who has surveyed people across the nation about their heroes, says all heroes share certain traits — courage and strength, generosity, honesty, expertise, a tendency toward risk-taking. "We want our heroes to be willing to go to the edge and push the envelope," he says. "We model ourselves after them. We may not be able to do everything they do, but we may be able to do some of the things they do." |
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August 13, 2007 | The New York Observer
Temple law professor Jan Ting has joined an immigration advisory group formed by Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Guliani. |
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August 13, 2007 | NBC10
As female students head back to school they’re being asked to make a new decision: whether or not to receive the HPV vaccine. “The vaccine is made differently than all other vaccines in the past. It is not made from a live virus or even from a killed virus, according to Temple University Hospital's Chief Of Ob-Gyn Dr. Enrique Hernandez. ‘They use information from the virus to build the coating of the virus. And it doesn't contain any DNA of the virus itself. I believe that's what makes it safe. Also because it doesn't contain preservatives nor antibiotics, it's a safe vaccine,’ Hernandez said.” |
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August 13, 2007 | Diverse magazine
Historian and archivist Dr. Diane Turner has been named as the successor to Charles L. Blockson, the legendary curator and founder of the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection at Temple University who stepped down in December. Turner will officially succeed Blockson on Sept. 10 as the curator of one of the world’s largest collections of materials on Black history and culture. |
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August 13, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer, Associated Press, United Press International
According to a Temple study led by Gary Foster, fat children miss more school than their healthy-weight peers. Data on weight and absenteeism were collected for 1,060 fourth to sixth graders from nine Philadelphia elementary schools. After statistical adjustments to control for such factors as gender and race, the numbers showed that overweight children missed an average of 12 days during the school year, compared to 10 days for children of healthy weights. The researchers speculate that overweight children not only have more health problems that keep them home, but also may skip school to avoid phys ed, bullying and teasing.
(The wire stories about this research have appeared in more than 150 outlets.)
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August 13, 2007 | Wall Street Journal
China is preparing to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the massacre by Japanese troops known as the Rape of Nanking. Movie makers are investing millions of dollars in projects, hoping to engage Japanese and even Western audiences in accounts of the December 1937 tragedy, in which the Japanese imperial army slayed hundreds of thousands of residents. A committee of Japanese and Chinese academics was formed this year to address contentious historical issues. Yet according to Jeff Kingston, director of Asian studies at Temple University Japan, "there is no chance in the world" that the committee's "revisionist" Japanese historians and state-backed Chinese historians will compromise. |
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August 13, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
A contractor snared in a sweeping probe of municipal corruption in Norristown has gone from guilty to not after a federal judge overturned his 2006 mail fraud conviction. Thomas Carbo was the beneficiary of that rarest of judicial acts -- the overturning of a jury's guilty verdict. U.S. District Judge Mary McLaughlin, in an opinion issued Friday, said no "rational" jury should have convicted Carbo. David Kairys, a professor of law at Temple Law School, called such a ruling "extremely rare," and said it happens only when a judge finds "that there's really no evidence to support a conviction." |
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August 13, 2007 | Japan Today
Each year on Aug. 15, the anniversary of the conclusion of World War II, great debate around the globe coincides with this unfolding scene at Yasukuni Shrine, a historical rallying point for Japanese militarism. "Controversy over Yasukuni is rooted in the broader historical debate about war memory, responsibility and reconciliation," explains Jeff Kingston, a professor of history and director of Asian studies at Temple University's Japan Campus. "Competing narratives about this past send mixed signals to neighbors and prevent reconciliation." |
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August 12, 2007 | New York Times Magazine
A Philadelphia therapist's group couples-therapy sessions are profiled. Jay Efran, a psychologist and emeritus professor at Temple who surveyed the last 25 years' worth of trends in couples therapy, has an idea about what makes for an estimable therapist. He suggests that therapy boils down to a facility for conversation and therefore is a creative and contingent act that does not lend itself to formulas. ''The profession has gotten itself into a bind,'' he said, ''because it wants to be seen as a science and it wants to collect money, and it has made this category mistake of thinking it provides treatments for diseases and not just conversation or community or human contact or offering new slants on life.'' |
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August 12, 2007 | Sacramento Bee
Electronic toy companies, often criticized for fostering laziness that contributes to childhood obesity, are discovering that fitness sells. Some are creating products that encourage kids to exercise even while indulging their appetite for couch-potato entertainment. The trend makes Temple psychologist Kathy Hirsh-Pasek cringe. The play expert and author of Einstein Never Used Flash Cards says "child-driven" play is critical for brain development, socialization skills, physical dexterity and emotional strength. "We need to get back to true play," she said, "walking and running, roughing and tumbling, drawing and playing with blocks, using toys that give you unending possibilities that can be used cooperatively with other children." |
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August 10, 2007 | United Press International
If a child has a seatbelt injury, such as a bruise, in a car accident a doctor should look for a possible spinal-cord injury, a Temple University report advises. Unless physicians are diligent, spinal-cord injuries are hard to diagnose in children -- and if such injuries are not diagnosed early the consequences can be devastating, said study leader Harsh Grewal, a pediatric surgeon at Temple University School of Medicine and Temple University Hospital. |
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August 10, 2007 | CNN's "Showbiz Tonight"
Marc Lamont Hill of Temple joined Brooke Anderson to discuss an anti-Semitic slur by Amber, a participant in the TV reality show, "Big Brother." Should Amber be kicked off the show? "Absolutely not," says Hill. "The whole point of the show is to see what happens when people stop faking and really get real, really start saying what they think. It`s terribly offensive what she said. It`s a bad thing. But she`s playing within the rules of the game. I think, by keeping the comments on the air, it shows how ignorant she is. It shows how backwards she is. If anything, she does a discredit to anti-semitics everywhere." |
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August 9, 2007 | The Times (UK)
Do peers have more influence on children than parents? Times of London writer Tanya Baron describes a letter she received from a parent who asks whether the friends that her teenage son has chosen for his peer group reflect parenting, genetics or chance. If recent research is to be believed, parents have little influence (genetics aside). Temple psychologist Frank Farley, former president of the American Psychological Association, has said that this view is "absurd" and dangerous because it could give permission to the uninterested parent to neglect a child, or to the abusive parent to abuse an offspring, because they might embrace the notion that what they do as parents will have no impact on their children anyway. |
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August 9, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
For young children in North Philadelphia, it's a way to have fun and learn a few things in the waning weeks of summer. Yet for the 43 mostly Asian volunteers of the three-week "play street" program in the 2100 block of Uber Street, it's a way to bridge communities, spread Christian faith, and reach out to a neighborhood in need. The Rev. Taehoo Lee, a Temple instructor and Baptist minister who lives a few blocks away, organized the camp. Lee said he called on high school and college students from Korean American churches and from his classes at Temple, where he teaches an intellectual-heritage course that combines history, philosophy and other disciplines. (Online version of article, linked above, includes a photo gallery.) |
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August 9, 2007 | Jewish Exponent
In a forum that has become as highly anticipated for the potential of its promise as for its proven results, international MBA students, full-time MBA students, domestic and foreign companies, nonprofit organizations and investors were brought together under the same roof for the ninth consecutive year by Temple University's Fox School of Business through its Global Innovation & Entrepreneurship Expo. The expo -- held on the Temple campus -- attracted several hundred people. "The uniqueness of the program for students is that it integrates finance, marketing, human resources and other areas of learning and proficiency into one project," explained M. Moshe Porat, dean of the Fox School. |
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August 8, 2007 | Minnesota Public Radio
One week after the collapse of the I-35W bridge, Minnesota Congressman Jim Oberstar is proposing a temporary increase in the federal gas tax to repair or replace aging bridges nationwide. William Miller, an expert on bridge engineering at Temple University in Philadelphia, says the public traditionally has not been well educated on the need for infrastructure repair. But he thinks the Minneapolis bridge collapse has changed that. |
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August 8, 2007 | USA Today, Action News 6 ABC
Heavy children have yet another burden: They miss more school than their normal-weight peers, says a study in September's Obesity. Researchers examined the attendance records of more than 1,000 fourth- to sixth-graders in nine inner-city schools in Philadelphia. They found that obese and overweight children missed about 12 days of school a year, compared with 10 for normal-eight children. "This is one more thing to add to the list of adverse consequences of obesity for kids," says Gary Foster of Temple's School of Medicine. |
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August 8, 2007 | Minnesota Public Radio
One week after the collapse of the I-35W bridge, Minnesota Congressman Jim Oberstar is proposing a temporary increase in the federal gas tax to repair or replace aging bridges nationwide. Oberstar plans to hold hearings on his proposal and the bridge collapse next month. William Miller, an expert on bridge engineering at Temple, says the public traditionally has not been well educated on the need for infrastructure repair. But he thinks the Minneapolis bridge collapse has changed that. Miller says Oberstar is well positioned to lead the charge. "He's able to exercise the necessary political will to convince both Congress, and also the constituents of the Congress members, to support this type of very important initiative," Miller said. |
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August 8, 2007 | Chronicle of Higher Education
The Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies' list of "Top 100 Tools for Learning" -- culled from charts created by e-learning experts -- names a wide array of tech tools that professors have come to love. Among the items that made the cut are Web browsers, e-mail clients, RSS feeders, blogging programs, and Microsoft's PowerPoint presentation software. But online library resources, which would seem like a good fit for e-learners, are notably absent from the master list. What gives? Steven Bell, the associate university librarian for research and instructional services at Temple, argues that librarians just haven't done a good job of advertising their online databases and e-journal collections as instructional tools. |
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August 7, 2007 | Associated Press
Many hospital burn centers are shutting down, a trend analysts say could leave the nation unable to handle widespread burn casualties from a fiery terrorist attack or other major disaster. Analysts say burn centers are expensive to maintain and often lose money. The exact number of burn beds may well be overstated, because hospitals do not always distinguish between specialized burn beds and beds that are used for various traumatic injuries. One recent report to the federal government showed that only 520 beds were actually available for use. William B. Hughes, director of the Temple University Hospital Burn Center in Philadelphia, said that more commonly, only about 300 beds are available at any time.
(This story was published by more than 130 media outlets.) |
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August 6, 2007 | Financial Times
Japan's opposition leader, Ichiro Ozawa, said his DPJ party “could never vote” for anti-terrorism legislation that allows Japan to refuel allied ships in the Indian Ocean. The US hopes to persuade Ozawa that the legislation enables Japan to play a significant role in preserving international maritime security. Ozawa supports a bigger role for Japan on the international stage but has always insisted that any Japanese action be conducted under the auspices of the United Nations. Jeff Kingston, professor of Asian studies at Temple Japan, said: "Ozawa started the whole 'normal nation' debate after the first Gulf war. But he is not a military hawk. He wants Japan to operate within the international framework." |
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August 6, 2007 | Ivanhoe Broadcast News
For the first time, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved an over-the-counter drug that's designed to block fat absorption in the body. When combined with a healthy lifestyle, research shows Alli (orlistat) will boost weight loss by 50 percent. "In real terms, that means if you would have lost 10 pounds with diet and physical activity, with diet, physical activity and Alli, you'll lose 15 pounds," says Gary Foster, an obesity researcher from Temple University. Alli works by blocking lipases, the enzymes that break down fat. The body excretes about 25 percent of the fat instead of absorbing it as calories. |
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August 6, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
The American Institute of Architects said that people are paying more attention to their outdoor spaces. Jenny Rose Carey, director of the Landscape Arboretum at Temple University's Ambler campus, who also is a gardening historian, pointed out that interest in spending more time outdoors predates citronella candles, flare torches, and misting systems for cooling. "People, before air-conditioning, would have tea outside," Carey said. "They just [didn't have the] accessories we have now." |
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August 5, 2007 | Baltimore Sun
In an era when families are fragmented by distance, African-American family reunions are helping to strengthen the extended family bond. "Summer is a big time for family reunions. It's popular for African-American family reunions," says Ione Vargus, the founder and chairwoman of the Family Reunion Institute at Temple. Vargus says that, proportionately speaking, African-Americans have more family reunions than other groups. "The major significance of the family reunion for African-Americans is that it's serving as a catalyst to bring back the extended family in a new way," explains Vargus. |
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August 5, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
With 500 more police surveillance cameras to be installed at crime hot spots in the next two years, initial statistics compiled by the city suggest that the cameras are reducing crime at key intersections while generating arrests for crimes that previously went undetected. One type of camera announces its presence with a blue strobe light. These cameras feed into a digital recorder that is not monitored by police, but the information can be retrieved if needed. "If deterrence is the primary goal, then the mere presence of a camera should be sufficient," Jerry Ratcliffe, associate professor of criminal justice at Temple, wrote in a U.S. Department of Justice publication. |
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August 5, 2007 | Toronto Sun
Obesity, increasingly common in pregnant women, raises the risk of women having C-sections. While most women are well aware of the risks associated with pregnancy and smoking or drinking, many women seem blind to the fact that eating for two has gone the way of playpens. According to Temple obstetrician Vani Dandolu, all doctors need to be more proactive about counseling women about starting pregnancy at a healthy weight. Dandolu's study looked at a sample of 7,660 women, 18 percent of whom were obese, 13 percent of whom were overweight, and 16 percent of whom were underweight. |
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August 4, 2007 | Fox News "The Cost of Freedom"
Marc Lamont Hill, professor of American Studies at Temple University, joined Fox News for a discussion of the stock market. Is Democrats' talk of raising taxes a "market killer"? "Under small government and unfettered capitalism, we have let the rich off the hook at the expense of our most vulnerable people," says Hill. "By increasing taxes, we create programs and resources for people that don't have much. Hedge fund managers aren't going to walk away from their jobs — no one is going to walk away from the industry because their taxes increase. This is a necessary step. We lost $6.3 billion through hedge fund tax breaks. That money could have given 25 million children health care." |
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August 4, 2007 | Associated Press
An antiques dealer recently found a surprising treasure trove of rare 19th century children's primers published in Philadelphia. Relatively few copies of the periodical Little Pilgrim have survived, and nearly full sets are unusual. Andy Waskie, who teaches Civil War history and languages at Temple, said the find "is significant if only because (Greenwood) has been largely forgotten and neglected...She was a woman ahead of her time...but she fell into obscurity," said Waskie, an expert in Phialdelphia history. |
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August 4, 2007 | Irish Times
Teenage recklessness seen on websites such as YouTube could hardly be more extreme. For example, a video uploaded to the Bebo social-networking site shows a boy lying down on a section of railroad track while a train rattles inches above him. Intense peer pressure is likely to be behind many of the wilder stunts. Temple psychologist Laurence Steinberg found that the presence of peers increases risk-taking substantially among teenagers. "In one of our lab's studies, the presence of peers more than doubled the number of risks teenagers took in a video driving game," he said. "In adolescence, then, not only is more merrier -- it is also riskier." |
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August 3, 2007 | CBN "Newswatch"
Ronald Costen, director of Temple's Harrisburg-based Institute on Protective Services, joined Christian Broadcasting Network's "Newswatch" to discuss con artists who prey on elderly Americans. Con artists often come across as friendly and appealing. In fact, says Costen, they're not often strangers. Care-givers and family members can steal money from victims' checking accounts, cds, savings accounts and home improvement loans. |
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August 3, 2007 | Fox News "The O'Reilly Factor"
Marc Lamont Hill of Temple University joined "The O'Reilly Factor" to discuss an LA Times column that suggested that just showing up at an Army recruiting station makes you an instant hero. And getting yourself hurt or killed doubles your heroism, even if you were sound asleep when your supply convoy went over an IED. "It's important to think about [the columnist's] comments in context," said Hill. "The whole point here wasn't about Pat Tillman per se but about the larger conversation we're having about heroism. I think Pat Tillman is a hero. I think Pat Tillman was quite brave. I think anyone who goes to war is quite brave." |
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August 3, 2007 | The Intelligencer
The Pennypack Creek Watershed in Horsham may soon be the focus of a conservation project aimed at reducing storm water and purifying the water that makes its way into the tributary. Development has led to increased flooding problems and degradation of the Pennypack Watershed over the past 30 years, according to a 2006 study by Temple University's Center for Sustainable Communities. Most of the watershed was developed between the 1950s and the 1980s, but it wasn't until around 1970 that municipalities began to recognize that they needed to create storm water management regulations to manage the effects of suburban development. |
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August 3, 2007 | TIME
Corrosion may have played a role in the catastrophic collapse of a Minneapolis bridge. “The bridge — what's known as a deck steel truss bridge — was a concrete roadway supported by gridwork of steel. When you use both concrete and steel like this,’ says William Miller, an expert on bridge engineering at Temple University in Philadelphia, ‘there can be chemical reactions going on where these two very different substances meet. This is especially a problem in extreme climates where water can get into the cracks between supports, freeze and expand and cause a huge amount of damage.’ Beyond that, says Miller, ‘concrete is a very forgiving material, and so it can stand up to a lot of cracking and wear. Steel on the other hand, cannot.’ In a place like Minnesota, where road crews dump corrosive ice melter on roadways by the ton in winter, the problem is even worse.” |
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August 3, 2007 | Philadelphia Business Journal
As rising tuition costs put college further out of reach for many would-be students, several Philadelphia-area colleges and universities are making special efforts to make college affordable for students from low-income backgrounds. at Temple University, 79 percent of all students and 96 percent of in-state students receive some form of financial aid. The average amount is $13,700 a student. When all grants, loans, work-study jobs and other aid are totaled, the financial aid reaching Temple students meets 97 percent of their need. "No student should assume they can't afford a good education at Temple," said Karin Mormando, the university's associate director for undergraduate admissions. |
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August 3, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
"Philadelphia Stories: The Building of a Great American City," an exhibit opening today at the Art Institute of Philadelphia's gallery, 1622 Chestnut St. shows the growth and change of Philadelphia over the centuries. Based on a city website of old photographs, the pictures have become public through a series of volunteer and underwritten efforts. For example, $10,000 to $20,000 worth of labor has been provided by interns from Temple University's history programs. |
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August 3, 2007 | Indianapolis Star
“The Shelby County mother watched this week as her son Robb Rich joined an honored group on stage of the chapel at the Indiana Department of Corrections' Re-Entry Educational Facility in Plainfield. "He's all smiles and happy. I knew he had this in him all along. We should never give up on our kids," Andrews said. Her son was one of 14 men in the first class of the Inside-Out Prison Exchange, a fledgling national program founded at Temple University.” |
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August 3, 2007 issue | Chronicle of Higher Education
Chronicle senior writer Lawrence Biemiller’s article and online audio slide show illustrate the long history of Baptist Temple as Temple University plans to create a multi-purpose meeting and concert hall in the former worship space. The life of Russell Conwell, who founded the university and started what is now Temple Hospital, are linked forever in the church building. “Russell Conwell is hardly a household name today, but a hundred years ago he was famous as an entertaining and inspirational orator, a quintessentially American speaker whose main message was that anyone could get ahead by working hard,” writes Biemiller. |
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August 2, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Frank D. Campbell, a senior manager with ECG Management Consultants, has been hired by President Ann Weaver Hart as senior adviser for health-care affairs in her office. Hart said she wanted to "facilitate joint planning that integrates the clinical and academic enterprises and fosters the financial, organizational and programmatic health" of the health system, medical school and physician practice. |
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August 2, 2007 | Daily News
Can yo-yo dieting lead to serious physical or emotional problems? “Surprisingly, the answer is no, according to Dr. Gary Foster, director of the Center for Obesity Research and Education at Temple University Medical School. ‘It might be unpleasant, but it is a myth that yo-yo dieting does physiological or psychological harm,’ said Foster.” |
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August 2, 2007 | Daily News
Gloria Endres, an instructor at Temple’s College of Education, in an op-ed praises the work of the Community College of Philadelphia in preparing student for admission to four-year schools like Temple. |
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August 2, 2007 | Agence France Presse
Chinese leaders have been avidly watching the recent Japanese elections that left Prime Minister Shinzo Abe badly weakened politically. “I think they realize that Abe needs China more than China needs Abe at this moment,” said Temple University professor Phil Deans. “The Chinese are aware that the prime minister is weaker and that it’s easier to extract concessions from him.” |
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August 1, 2007 | CNN Headline News
Adding Whoopee Goldberg to the mix on television’s “The View” will bring thoughtful debate to the popular daytime show, says Temple Professor Marc Lamont Hill. |
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August 1, 2007 | Fox News, “The Live Desk with Martha MacCallum”
A Detroit high school is suspending students who use cell phones or iPods. Temple professor Marc Lamont Hill, a former high school teacher, said he saw a similar trend a decade ago when schools took strict action against using pagers. |
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August 1, 2007 | Wall Street Journal, Marketwatch.com, Business Insurance.com
The nest eggs of long-term 401(k) investors have grown at close to 9% rate annually in recent years, according to a report released by the Employee Benefit Research Institute and the Investment Company Institute. People saving in a 401(k) long term are on track for retirement, said Jack VanDerhei, a professor at Temple University, an EBRI fellow and co-author of the report. He said the key is getting people to invest as soon as possible and to keep that money invested even if they switch jobs."If you focus on consistent participants, you can see how people who stay in the system tend to build significant account balances," said Jack VanDerhei, a Temple University professor and EBRI fellow. "With the discipline of saving little by little through 401(k) plans, workers can successfully build a nest egg for retirement," VanDerhei said. “The average 401(k) plan participant had a good year in 2006 because the majority of 401(k) assets are invested in equities, and the stock market did very well last year,” Jack VanDerhei, an EBRI fellow and a faculty member of Temple University’s School of Business and Management in Philadelphia, said in a statement. |
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August 1, 2007 | Agence France Presse, NPR
A major defeat of his party over the weekend has left Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe severely weakened. "He is essentially a dead man walking. The man has no credibility left whatsoever," said Robert Dujarric, director of Temple University's Institute of Contemporary Japanese Studies. Abe's problem is that he is not listening to voters. “Phil Deans, a professor of Politics and East Asian Studies at Temple University in Tokyo, said Abe's mission to make Japan more assertive on the world stage is out of touch with the electorate. ‘His nationalist agenda just doesn't have that much appeal. Most Japanese people don't care that much about revising the constitution and changing Japan's international role,’ Deans said.” |
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August 1, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer, Metro, Associated Press
Temple alumnus and trustee Bill Cosby helped the University's football team unveil its new uniforms during a publicity event at the Linc yesterday. |
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August 1, 2007 | Fox29, “Good Day Philadelphia”
How do you talk to your children when their sports heroes make bad decisions? Temple professor Frank Farley talks about the opportunity to discuss life lessons with young sports fans in light of the Michael Vick controversy. |
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August issue | Asian Fortune newspaper
Cancer deaths have declined in general, but not among Asian Americans. In fact, Asians are the only group where cancer is the leading cause of death in the nation, compared with heart disease in all other ethnic groups. Organizations exist to help bring awareness to these issues such as Dr. Grace Ma, principal investigator of ATECAR and director of Center for Asian Health, Temple University, surmised that out of the national uninsured rate of 15 percent, “Koreans have a very low rate of health insurance.” 52 percent of them are uninsured. She said, “a lot of them are working long hours in mom/pop shops, in the laundry.” |
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August 2007 | Modern Healthcare
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Critics have been incensed by CEOs who cashed in on stock options not long before their company's fortunes flagged. Steven Balsam, a professor of accounting at Temple, conducted a S&P 1500 study as part of a forthcoming book, Executive Compensation: An Introduction to Practice and Theory. In an interview, Balsam said the new disclosure rules eventually may affect how pay packages are structured, but only after some trends emerge. "CEO compensation, like a lot of things in this world, is evolution, not revolution, so things move slowly,'' Balsam said. |
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August 2007 | Money
In a major feature story on the desirability of American suburbs in Money magazine's annual "Best Places to Live" special issue, research by Temple's Metropolitan Philadelphia Indicators Project is highlighted (although not credited). Who is more likely to call their neighborhood "home" -- a suburbanite or a city-dweller? |
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August 2007 | All You magazine
Mixing over-the-counter drugs with prescription drugs can sometimes have side effects. Patrick McDonnell, associate professor at the School of Pharmacy, is among several experts consulted about dangerous drug combinations. Aspirin, for instance, can make some diabetes medications less effective. |
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August issue | Philadelphia magazine
The “Best of Philly” issue contains two Temple references:
Ann Weaver Hart, President, Temple University is included in a story on “What I’m Reading.” Canyon, by Michael P. Ghighlieri. "My husband and I are going to run the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon in wooden dories; we were looking for good books about the Grand Canyon. The book is a combination of river running, natural history, geography, Western legend and history. It's great reading – quite an adventure – though my husband assures me that it overemphasizes the adventure and risk, and I should not worry about ditching in the Lava Falls rapids."
Best College Coach: "Seven years after she took over Temple's women's hoops team (and just a year after she retired as one of the WNBA's best players ever), Dawn Staley's record on the sidelines is starting to equal her stellar one on the court: 151 wins, four Atlantic 10 championships, and five NCAA tourney appearances. Little wonder she's been selected to coach this year's Pan Am Games team, or that Temple just gave her a six-year contract extension."
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