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September 30, 2007 | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
In a column on the need to save more for retirement, Len Boselovic writes that “EBRI's 17th annual Retirement Confidence survey showed that while 70 percent of those polled were very or somewhat confident about their financial security in retirement, 49 percent had saved less than $25,000. ‘I think to a very large extent they're deluding themselves,’ says Jack VanDerhei, a Temple University professor and co-author of the report. Aren't we all?” |
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September 30, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Columnist Tom Ferrick says the city’s next mayor has a major challenge in making the city work efficiently and encouraging local residents to feel better about their government. “In a poll done in March by Temple's Institute for Public Affairs for the Economy League of Greater Philadelphia, 74 percent of city residents said government was doing only a fair to poor job. Only 26 percent graded it good or excellent. That's a C-minus. Adding to the poor public perception is a widespread feeling that city government is, as the Temple report put it, ‘pretty much run by a few big interests looking out for themselves.’” |
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September 30, 2007 | Parade magazine
Don’t assume that more medicine is better. If two tablets haven’t helped your hammering headache, another two won’t do any better. Most drugs have what’s called a “ceiling effect,” in which the body’s drug receptors reach their limit. “Exceeding the maximum dose only causes the drug to affect receptors elsewhere in your body, leading to unwanted side effects,” says Patrick J. McDonnell, associate professor of clinical pharmacy at Temple University School of Pharmacy in Philadelphia. |
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September 28, 2007 | Asahi (Japan’s leading national newspaper)
Temple University Japan’s Robert Dujarric suggests that the new Japanese prime minister should put a major foreign policy initiative on his to-do list: “Japan has a new leader. Obviously, the voters expect Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda to take care of the economy and their pensions. But one of Fukuda's most important tasks should be to convince the United States not to attack Iran.” Dujarric is director of the Institute of Contemporary Japanese Studies at TUJ. |
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September 28, 2007 | Slate.com
In an essay, author William Saletan argues that it’s time to rethink the age of consent. “I'm not saying 12 should be the official age of 'consent.' Consent implies competence, and 12-year-olds don't really have that. In a forthcoming review of studies, Laurence Steinberg of Temple University observes that at ages 12 to 13, only 11 percent of kids score at an average (50th percentile) adult level on tests of intellectual ability. By ages 14 to 15, the percentage has doubled to 21. By ages 16 to 17, it has doubled again to 42. After that, it levels off.” |
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September 28, 2007 | The (Allentown) Morning Call
The death of 4-year-old Daviay Legrand in a police cruiser crash has raised questions about punishment. Investigators determined Allentown police officer Brett Guth had no criminal intent when, driving to an emergency, he distractedly ran a red light and caused the May 30 accident. The rookie officer faces a $25 fine. ''It's very tempting to think that crimes should be defined by consequences, but they're mostly defined by behavior,'' said JoAnne Epps, associate dean of Temple University Law School in Philadelphia. ''The question is whether being distracted and running a red light is the kind of felony crime we would want to punish people for in general. The fact that a child died is kind of a secondary concern, as tragic as the consequences are.'' |
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September 27, 2007 | Jewish Exponent
In his “Stars of David” column, Michael Elkin writes that “It's case closed for Robert Reinstein, who just announced his retirement as dean of Temple U.'s School of Law. After some 20 years, Reinstein reportedly holds the title of ‘longest serving dean of an American law school.’ But don't pop the champagne just yet; he'll be leaving in June to go back to teaching.” |
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September 27, 2007 | Philadelphia Business Journal
Temple University has launched a $2.5 million branding campaign that focuses on the positive qualities that the school thinks typify its alumni, as well as its students, faculty and staff. "The idea of this campaign is to take attributes that are really recognized as being part of Temple's story and through the campaign make the university more visible," said Mark Eyerly, Temple's chief communication officer. |
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September 27, 2007 | CN8 TV “Art Fennel Reports”
Suzanne Kasenic, Dietician, Temple Cancer Center, in a live interview, discussed dietary choices and prevention to prostate cancer. Some of the foods men should include in their diets in the fight against prostate cancer include: tomato products like soup, paste, sauce, and juice; Vitamin E including wheat germ, vegetable oils (especially sunflower and canola), nuts (especially almonds), and green leafy vegetables (spinach and kale); selenium including seafood (snapper, halibut, tuna); Brazil nuts; and green tea. |
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September 27, 2007 | Reuters Health
Adolescents whose mothers or fathers smoke in the home -- as well as those who themselves smoke -- are more likely to fail key achievement tests, a new study shows. In fact, the effect of adolescent exposure was significantly greater than of being exposed to cigarette smoke in the womb. "These data highlight the importance of helping smoking parents create smoke-free homes for their children -- outcomes that can be achieved without requiring ... immediate parental smoking cessation," Dr. Bradley Collins of Temple University in Philadelphia and colleagues write. |
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September 27, 2007 | ParentsKnow.com
Children who would never consider stealing something from a store are not reluctant to download copyrighted material for free over the internet. “When one is copying, the victim is viewed as a person, but copying online is considered a victimless crime,” explains Dr. Laurence Steinberg, psychology professor at Temple University and author of The 10 Basic Principles of Good Parenting. “It is easier to steal when the victim can be de-personalized. |
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September 27, 2007 | CBS3, Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News
Almost 30 years of Eyewitness News is coming to Temple. CBS3 will donate its vast archive of more than 20,000 videotapes to the university's Paley Library, CBS3 president Michael Colleran and Temple president Ann Weaver Hart are to announce today in a joint news conference. The collection includes 20,000 videotapes of daily local newscasts and video clips from the last three decades of "Eyewitness News," and 15 years of the lifestyle show, "Evening Magazine." Once catalogued, the collection will be available to the public. |
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September 27, 2007 | SmartMoney.com
New federal laws will open up 401(k) plans for more Americans. According to Jack VanDerhei, an associate professor of risk management and insurance at Temple University's Fox School of Business and Management and expert on retirement savings behavior, that should soon change. "I think the number of companies that will implement automatic enrollment for 401(k)s is going to grow a lot," he says. "The question is by how much." |
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September 27, 2007 | Hartford Courant, Philadelphia Inquirer, USA Today
Officials from the Mid-American Conference would not comment Wednesday on a published report that MAC game officials have acknowledged that they blew a touchdown call late in Temple's 22-17 loss to UConn at Rentschler Field on Sept. 15. Larry Dougherty, Temple's director of media relations, would not comment on the story Wednesday. "I know [Temple coach Al Golden] has put the game behind him and he's not commenting publicly on anything," Dougherty said. |
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September 26, 2007 | Allentown Morning Call
The Allentown School District is involved in a complex lawsuit claiming that school officials’ negligence led to the rapes of four first-grade boys by a 12-year-old student with a history of psychological problems. Unless there are blatant memos detailing actions to cover up what happened or damaging deposition statements, or a smoking gun appears, the ''state-created danger'' theory will be a ''heavy burden to prove,'' said JoAnne Epps, associate dean of Temple University Law School in Philadelphia. “These cases are extremely fact-intensive,'' Epps said. ''Behavior matters a great deal.'” |
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September 25, 2007 | Woman’s World
Temple ophthalmologist Joseph Kubacki answered a reader’s question on how to prevent macular degeneration. His suggestions: “Get regular eye exams, eat lots of antioxidant-rich leafy green vegetables, limit foods high in fat, don’t smoke and wear sunglasses year-round.” |
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September 25, 2007 | CN8 “Art Fennel Reports”
A School of Medicine program trains medical residents in communicating with families in end-of-life situations. Amy Goldberg, professor of surgery and director of trauma and critical care, is studying the efficacy of the program and is finding that just two hours of training improves communications skills. Sensitive, thoughtful communications between doctors and the families of patients at the end of life could potentially improve organ donation rates. Prior research has correlated a family’s understanding of brain death and donation consent rates. |
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September 25, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Temple President Ann Weaver Hart will be the guest this Wednesday at the “Lunch with City Leaders” event organized by the Center City Proprietors Association and sponsored by KYW Newsradio 1060 and Bank of America. |
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September 25, 2007 | Telegraph (London)
Teens who make bad decisions are reacting to both peer pressure and underdeveloped brain centers. Temple psychology professor Laurence Steinberg has seen this in a test involving teens and a driving simulation game. "Along the way, the player encounters eight traffic lights that turn yellow as he approaches the intersection." The player is faced with a dilemma: stop and waste time, or risk crashing at the junction. "When adolescents play the game, they take twice as many chances if their peers are in the room than if they are by themselves," says Prof Steinberg. "No such peer effect is seen among adults." |
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September 25, 2007 | Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Japan’s new prime minister, Yasuo Fakuda, will not be the transformational leader his predecessor tried to be, says Jeff Kingston, director of Asian studies at Tokyo's Temple University. Fukuda would instead be a transactional leader, Kingston said. His aim would not be to set a new agenda, but rather to broker agreements between existing interests, and ease Japan's traditionally fraught relations with the Koreas and China. |
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September 25, 2007 | Chicago Tribune
Teens exposed to secondhand smoke at home are at increased risk of test failure in school, suggests a study by Temple University. Taking other known risk factors into account -- socioeconomic status, prenatal exposure to smoking -- the study team found that exposure to secondhand smoke at home decreased the odds of passing standardized achievement tests by 30 percent in 16- and 18-year-olds. |
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September 24, 2007 | Philadelphia Weekly
Police commissioner Sylvester Johnson, along with a group of community activists, is calling for 10,000 men to voluntarily patrol neighborhoods to deter violence. The idea is getting mixed reviews. “You can’t have it both ways,” warns Temple urban education professor Marc Lamont Hill. “You can’t complain about the police then refuse to police your own community. We have people dying in the streets, so you can get a crippling sense of cynicism that the police don’t operate in our interests, and we’re just going to throw our hands up. But this initiative is saying, ‘No, we’re going to intervene in the public conversation.’” |
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September 24, 2007 | The National Law Journal
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a number of major cases this fall, including one involving conflicts between the International Court of Justice, state courts and presidential power. "The case poses important questions about how the court will see the balance between states' rights under the banner of federalism and the foreign affairs powers of the president, including the treaty power," said international law scholar Duncan Hollis of Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law. There are precedents supporting both sides, he noted, but they have never "crossed paths" in a case until now. "In other words, this is a big case -- not simply because it involves the death penalty," said Hollis. |
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September 24, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
The Philadelphia Foundation, a nonprofit charity, named Lisa Staiano-Coico to its board. She is provost and professor of surgery at Temple University, Philadelphia. |
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September 24, 2007 | USA Today
Among the six steps USA Today recommends for reaching financial security: working longer. Even retiring at 62 — when most people become eligible for Social Security — is risky, says Jack VanDerhei of the Employee Benefit Research Institute and Temple University. Though Americans are working longer, most of them aren't working long enough to provide for a secure retirement, VanDerhei says. By the time they realize they haven't saved enough, he says, it's often too late: "It's really difficult to get into the workforce at age 70." |
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September 24, 2007 | Toledo Blade
In the second of a three-part series on teen behavior, writers Jenni Laidman and Robin Erb note that: "Any discussion about teenage decision-making eventually gets around to a study conducted by Laurence Steinberg, a psychologist at Temple University in Philadelphia, and research he conducted with a computer driving game called Chicken. It looks at risky driving." Steinberg found that the teens took more risks if accompanied by same-aged peers. |
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September 24, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Books about Iran or by Iranians are becoming a hot part of the publishing world. "In the last few years there's been an amazing explosion, and it's not surprising," said David Farber, professor of history at Temple University and author of Taken Hostage: The Iran Hostage Crisis and America's First Encounter with Radical Islam. "Iran is at the confluence of so many of the things a lot of Americans care and worry a great deal about. Publishers pick that up quickly." |
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September 24, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Larry F. Lemanski was named senior vice president for research and strategic initiatives at Temple University. He was vice president for research at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Fla. He will start Dec. 1 and report to Temple president Ann Weaver Hart. |
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September 24, 2007 | USA Today
According to the U.S. Census, there are 77.5 million baby boomers, those who were born between 1946 and 1964 and are now 43 to 61. For this group, various conditions are more common than they are in younger adults. The boomers are finding they’re not immune to old age. For example, 50 percent of men over age 50 have some form of erectile dysfunction, says Jack Mydlo, chairman of the department of urology at Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia. |
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September 19-24, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer, Reuters, The Metro, UPI
When parents divorce, they may be less likely to get care in their old age from their adult children, a new study suggests. The timing of the divorce appeared key, however, according to the researchers, led by Dr. Adam Davey of Temple University in Philadelphia. |
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September 23, 2007 | New York Times
There are a growing number of medical businesses that offer sick patients the opportunity to get a house call from a doctor. But the service does have some drawbacks, writes Jennifer Alsever. It doesn't resolve the health care problems for those without insurance. "Nor do these new businesses always address the need for continuity of care or the sharing of patient information among hospitals and doctors about any tests performed or medication prescribed, said David Barton Smith, a professor emeritus of health care management at Temple University. 'There’s no common record keeping,' Professor Smith said. |
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September 23, 2007 | Associated Press, national wire
Ruling party elder and political moderate Yasuo Fukuda is expected to win today's contest for the presidency of the Liberal Democratic Party, a victory virtually certain to make him the next prime minister of Japan in a parliamentary vote Tuesday. "He's going to go to typical LDP bread-and-butter policies," said Jeff Kingston, director of Asian studies at Temple University in Tokyo. "I think what he wants to do is woo the public and show the LDP is paying attention to the issues they care about." |
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September 23, 2007 | Agence France Presse, Forbes
Yasuo Fakuda's selection as Japan's next prime minister signals a move towards a more traditional leader. "Fukuda is not charismatic but he is being viewed as a safe pair of hands," said Robert Dujarric, director of Temple University's Institute of Contemporary Japanese Studies. "They know he's not going to be totally incompetent." |
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September 23, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Students rallying on campus and demanding racial equality is not something that's been seen in 30 years, but the Jena 6 case drew many to march in the streets, including Temple University students. In an editorial, the Inquirer notes that “more than 10,000 demonstrators descended on the small Louisiana town of Jena on Thursday to protest the inequitable treatment of the six black teens. The protests were repeated in cities across America, including Philadelphia, where 700 rallied at Temple University.” |
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September 22, 2007 | Wall Street Journal, Kansas City Star, others
Under federal law, colleges are barred from releasing information in a student’s record, including grades or disciplinary actions, without the student’s permission. "'If we ask students to waive their right to privacy, it’s more effective if the conversation starts with the parents and students,' said Ainsley Carry, dean of students at Temple University in Philadelphia, which began offering its waiver online four years ago. Last year, more than 5,000 undergraduates at Temple elected to sign a waiver, out of a total student body of about 23,000. In a number of cases, Carry said, students and parents have walked straight from orientation to the dean’s office to hand in the waiver together." |
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September 22, 2007 | Wall Street Journal
The late Howard Gittis was "the quickest-witted and closest thing to a purely rational being," says Peter Liacouras, chancellor of Temple University, who knew Mr. Gittis from their student days together at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Mr. Gittis sat on Penn Law School's board and for six years was chairman of Temple. He gave at least $5 million to each school, and buildings at both are named after him.” |
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September 21, 2007 | Philadelphia Business Journal
Temple University said Friday it has named Larry F. Lemanski its senior vice president for research and strategic initiatives, effective Dec. 1. Lemanski has been vice president for research at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Fla., since 2001. Prior to that, he was associate vice president for research at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. In his new post, Lemanski will oversee all aspects of research at Temple, including its sponsored research, research infrastructure, efforts to commercialize its research, research partnerships and compliance with federal, state and university research regulations. |
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September 21, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News, Chicago Sun-Times, Metro, KYW radio, CBS3, ABC6, NBC10, Fox29, InsideHigherEd.com, Fox News “Fox & Friends” and “The O’Reilly Factor”
For the second day in a row Temple students and local residents gathered to protest inequities in the Jena 6 case in Louisiana. The case is gaining growing attention. "At black colleges and in the black media, they've been talking about this for months," said Nathaniel Norment Jr., chairman of African American studies at Temple University, where about 700 people, mostly students, rallied yesterday in support of the Jena Six. Here is a sample of the protest coverage:
Many of the students at the rally wore black. “The tradition goes back to the 1920s, when members of Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association donned all-black uniforms to march through Harlem, demanding equal treatment for black people. Garvey told people to dress in all black for two reasons, said Molefi Kete Asante, professor of African American studies at Temple University and author of The History of Africa. ‘It gave dignity to the color black," Asante said, "and it was an expression of solidarity with black people throughout the world who felt oppressed.’ ”
In addition, Temple professor Marc Lamont Hill discussed the Jena 6 case with Bill O’Reilly on “The O’Reilly Factor” |
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September 21, 2007 | Daily News
As World War II veterans age and die, they are taking the story of the war with them. “William Hitchcock, professor of history at Temple University, said he's always admired the restraint World War II veterans have exhibited, noting that many declined to describe the gory details of the horrors they'd witnessed overseas. ‘They carried much of the trauma they received in battle with them . . . They kept it close to the vest, which I believe was a good, noble thing,’ he said. ‘But, it also means Americans haven't grappled with the awfulness and horrors of the war.’ ” |
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September 21, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Discussions between Temple University Health System and St. Christopher’s Hospital continue and no agreement has been reached. “In June, the three institutions - Temple University, Temple University Health System and St. Christopher's - said they were discussing a plan through which Temple pediatric doctors and faculty would treat patients and teach at St. Christopher's. Temple would continue to provide emergency pediatric care, neonatal intensive care, and outpatient pediatric care on North Broad Street,” writes Stacey Burling. |
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September 20, 2007 | Internet Broadcasting (over 65 TV stations nationwide), NBC Newschannel (nationally syndicated to local NBC TV stations)
Students who live with smokers don't do as well on standardized tests, a researcher said. Bradley Collins of Temple University said in a study that 16- and 18-year-olds who are exposed to secondhand smoke at home are 30 percent less likely to pass the tests. |
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September 20, 2007 | Brightcove TV (Internet TV Service)
Danny Dhanasekaran, a molecular biologist at Temple University, discusses the use of genetically-engineered yeast to detect explosives and one's date's pheromone-generation level, recorded at NextFest, in Los Angeles. |
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September 20, 2007 | United Press International
Teens exposed to secondhand smoke at home are at increased risk of failing tests in school, a U.S. and British study suggests. Lead author Bradley Collins of Temple University in Philadelphia, and colleagues at Oxford University and University of Bristol in England, found that exposure to secondhand smoke at home decreased the odds of passing standardized achievement tests by 30 percent in high school students 16- and 18-year-olds. |
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September 20, 2007 | KPFA radio (Berkeley, Calif.)
Fox School of Business professor David Barton Smith discussed his recent research into racial separatism in nursing homes. |
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September 20, 2007 | Associated Press, The Age.com (Australia)
Expect Yasuo Fukuda, Japan’s next prime minister and Liberal Democratic Party member, to focus on issues that voters can relate to. "He's going to go to typical LDP bread-and-butter policies," Jeff Kingston, director of Asian studies at Temple University in Tokyo. "I think what he wants to do is woo the public and show the LDP is paying attention to the issues they care about."Fakuda’s age (he’s 71) would have made him an unlikely choice just a year ago, Kingston told a reporter for The Age: "They're simply reading the public mood," says Jeffrey Kingston, the director of Asian studies at Tokyo's Temple University. "A year ago (Mr Fukuda) was too old, but now he seems just right.
"They had a 51-year-old youngster in there who took a popular party and ran it into the ground. They're not going to try that again." |
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September 20, 2007 | USA Today
Missing from the national debate about the war in Iraq is recognition of the many acts of heroism that take place on the battlefield. Writes Greg Zoroya: “Heroic acts mark every war; among the most remarkable involve self-sacrifice. ‘What a decision that is,’ says Frank Farley, a Temple University psychologist who studies bravery. ‘I can't think of anything more profound in human nature.’ ” |
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September 20, 2007 | The New York Times
William J. Barnes shot and partly paralyzed a Philadelphia police officer in 1966, and he served 20 years for it and related offenses. But last month, 41 years after the shooting, the district attorney filed new charges of murder after the officer, Walter T. Barclay Jr., died of an infection she says stems from the shooting. Allen M. Hornblum, an urban studies instructor at Temple University who researched Mr. Barclay’s history and invited Mr. Barnes to speak to his class about having turned his life around after a career in crime, said the new charges were “vindictive, pure and simple.” |
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September 20, 2007 | Science Daily
Teens exposed to secondhand smoke at home are at increased risk of test failure in school, suggests a new study in the Journal of Adolescent Health. “Our retrospective study suggests that in adolescents, secondhand smoke exposure could interfere with academic test performance,” said lead author Bradley Collins, Ph.D., assistant professor of public health and director of the Health Behavior Research Clinic at Temple University |
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September 20, 2007 | Phillyburbs.com, MSNBC
Will more surveillance cameras lower crime in the Philadelphia suburban community of Bristol Township? “Cameras can work — to a point, said Jerry Ratcliffe, an associate professor of criminal justice at Temple University.
‘They can definitely help with policing. And they can help reduce crime. But they tend to be better at reducing property crime than violent crime,’ he said.” |
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September 20, 2007 | Daily News
Exercise and diet advisor Kimberly Garrison says fitness should be a family goal. “ ‘Parents need to evaluate all forms of media [their children watch or play] and spend more time outdoors with their children,’ according to Dr. Bob Whitaker, a specialist in childhood obesity at Temple University's Center for Obesity Research and Education. Parents need to exercise not only for their own well being but for their children's benefit. The best way to do that is to lead by example. ‘Do as I say, not as I do" didn't work with smoking, and it won't work with exercise and eating right, either. If you want your children to be healthy and fit, you must live the lifestyle, too.’ ” |
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September 20, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
A job fair sponsored by the city of Philadelphia brought more than 2,000 people to the Liacouras Center on Wednesday. |
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September 20, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Kathryn Morris, who attended Temple in the late 1980s, was back in Philadelphia recently for location shots to be used in the coming season of “Cold Case”, the CBS detective television series. |
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September 19, 20, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer (video), Daily News, Boston Globe, Associated Press, CBS3, ABC6, NBC10, Fox29, KYW radio
A large number of Temple students were part of the protesters who marched from the university to City Hall raising awareness about the Jena 6, a group of black high school students who are accused of beating a white student in a racially charged Louisiana event. The protest brought out students of all races. "It's people our age - people that are about to go to jail for a school fight," explained Sapphire Stubbs, 19, pausing from collecting donations in a cardboard box. Joshua Harris, 19, a Temple student from New Haven, Conn., chimed in, "It shows how we haven't progressed as a nation." |
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September 19, 2007 | Voice of America
Scientists debate whether there is a connection between brain development and risky behavior among teens. “Laurence Steinberg is a psychology professor at Temple University in Philadelphia. He says stronger laws, and stronger parental control, are needed to protect teens from themselves. That includes raising the age for driving. He says research finds that teenage brains are not fully equipped to control behavior.” |
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September 19, 2007 | Washington Post, New York Sun
A funeral was held yesterday for Howard Gittis, vice chairman of MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings Inc. and the closest adviser to billionaire financier Ronald O. Perelman, who died of a heart ailment Sept. 16 at his home in New York City. Gittis has a long association with Temple University, including six years as chair of the Temple Board of Trustees. |
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September 19, 2007 | InsideHigherEd.com
Students in Alison Laywine’s Latin class at McGill University had to memorize the Greek alphabet and prove 100 percent proficiency to continue in her class, a requirement that has scared off some students. Writes Andy Guess: “One reason why the response was so unexpected, she suggested, is that learning the Greek alphabet (or at least the capital letters) isn’t all that hard. ‘It’s something you can learn in a day,’ said Daniel P. Tompkins, a professor of classics at Temple University and a member of the Joint Committee on Classics in American Education of the American Classical League and the American Philosophical Association.” |
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September 18, 2007 | Christian Century
Teen criminals are being increasingly treated as adults by the criminal justice system. “If juvenile offenders are examined individually, fewer than 10 percent of them are serious, habitual, violent offenders” writes author Jens Soering. “Laurence Steinberg, professor of psychology at Temple University, believes that nearly 95 percent of adolescents currently in prison should be transferred to group homes or residential treatment centers. Incarceration only ‘expands [their] antisocial network and… derails their normal psychological development.’ ” |
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September 18, 2007 | The Metro
Dr. Amy Goldberg, professor at the School of Medicine, has found that as little as two hours of training can have a sizable impact on conversations between doctors seeking organ donations and families whose loved ones have become brain dead. |
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September 18, 2007 | KYW radio
Dr. Tom Fekete, chief of infectious diseases, Temple University Health System, discussed the decision by London physicians to no longer wear long sleeves, ties or jewelry, in an attempt to lessen the spread of MRSA. |
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September 18, 2007 | CN8 “Art Fennel Reports”
Temple law professor and Associate Dean JoAnne Epps says O.J. Simpson could be in a lot of trouble on his recent charges following an attempted theft in Las Vegas. Epps said Simpson’s credibility is on the line and sorting out just what happened will not be easy. |
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September 18, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer, New York Post, Bloomberg
Howard Gittis, a long-time member and former chair of Temple's Board of Trustees and one of the university's most generous benefactors, died in his sleep on Monday, Sept. 17. He was 73. |
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September 18, 2007 | Metro
Beasley School of Law Dean Robert Reinstein is stepping down to rejoin the school’s faculty after a distinguished 19 years. “My first love has always been teaching and scholarship. I think the law school and the international programs are in great shape and I’m confident a new dean will be chosen who will keep the momentum going,” he said. |
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September 18, 2007 | Metro
Posting crime statistics is an important part of keeping a campus community safe, said Carl Bittenbender, executive director of Temple’s Department of Campus Safety Services. “We’re very open; I don’t bury crime statistics,” said Bittenbender. “We keep ours on our Web site every day.” |
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September 18, 2007 | Entrepreneur
Any business can put on a big event that will draw name-brand attention. Dr. Joe Goldblatt, senior lecturer at Temple University's School of Tourism & Hospitality Management, says no business is too small to create a memorable event. "Creativity expands any budget," says Goldblatt. "First, find a cause relevant to your corporate mission. Then, find partners to work with. Lastly, ask yourself, is it feasible? Is it viable? Is it sustainable?" |
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September 17, 2007 | UPI
A divorce -- even one 30 years ago -- means a child may be less involved in care-giving for elderly parents, a U.S. researcher says. In a study, published in the Advances in Life Course Research, divorce predicted an adult child would be less of involved with day-to-day assistance later in life for the aging parent. "It’s not the divorce itself that affects the quality of the parent-child relationship, but it’s what happens afterwards such as geographical separation," study leader Adam Davey, of Temple University, said in a statement. |
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September 17, 2007 | CNN/Money
Come January, certain provisions of the Pension Protection Act (PPA) will go into effect that will give employers added incentive to implement automatic enrollment and automatic "contribution-escalation" features for their 401(k) plans. For workers retiring between 2030 and 2039, the benefits could be substantial, according to a new study from the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) conducted by Jack VanDerhei, a Temple University business school professor and EBRI fellow. |
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September 17, 2007 | CNN
Temple professor Marc Lamont Hill joined a roundtable discussion on the arrest of O.J. Simpson in Las Vegas on charges of robbery and assault. |
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September 17, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
A Democratic presidential debate is scheduled for Philadelphia on Oct. 30, but the location has not yet been revealed. “One source familiar with the situation indicated Friday that the likely venue was Temple University's Liacouras Center,” writes Larry Eichel. “Another said that was by no means a sure thing.” |
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September 17, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
A Haverford, Pa.-based company has created a device that fits in the mouth and restricts jaw movement, causing wearers to take smaller bites and consume less food - thus losing weight. But how effective could this really be? "The unfortunate truth is that most treatments for obesity are pretty effective in the short term, but not so effective in the long term," said Gary Foster, director of the Center for Obesity Research and Education at the Temple University School of Medicine. |
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September 17, 2007 | The New York Times
Op-ed writer Mike Males says recent stories on the underdeveloped nature of teen brains have drawn a lot of attention. “The latest example is a study out of Temple University that found that the ‘temporal gap between puberty, which impels adolescents toward thrill seeking, and the slow maturation of the cognitive-control system, which regulates these impulses, makes adolescence a time of heightened vulnerability for risky behavior.’” Males says the real problem lies with misbehaving middle-aged adults, not teens. |
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September 16, 2007 | New York Times
“Risk is often relative to the person taking it. Ask any mountain climber, Wall Street investor or newly arrived immigrant,” writes William Yardley. Frank Farley, a psychologist at Temple University who has studied risk takers, cautioned against dismissing them as unstable. “Risk takers aren’t crazy at all,” said Dr. Farley, a former president of the American Psychological Association. “They don’t want to die. They want to live for another exciting day, another interesting day.” |
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September 16, 2007 | Agence France Presse
Japan's ruling conservative party is turning towards a more traditional candidate to be its next prime minister: Yasuo Fakuda. Fukuda is “much more part of the mainstream conservative right wing (of the LDP) than the revisionist right wing that (Shinzo) Abe and (Taro) Aso come from,” said Professor Phil Deans at Tokyo’s Temple University. |
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September 16, 2007 | U.S. News & World Report
Are stores with high customer satisfaction ratings more profitable? In "The Moderating Role of Competition in the Relationship Between Nonfinancial Measures and Future Financial Performance", forthcoming in Contemporary Accounting Research, Raj Mashruwala of Washington University and Rajiv Banker of Temple University's Fox School of Business suggest a link, but only when competition is stiff. In urban areas (where competition for customers was strong), the higher the level of satisfaction, the more profitable the store. |
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September 16, 2007 | KYW radio
Temple University has been named one of five sites nationwide to study treatment for MRSA, a skin and soft tissue infection that is more difficult to treat than most common staph infections because it's immune to many of the commonly used antibiotics. Dr. Robert McNamara, chairman of emergency medicine at Temple University Hospital says doctors will test possible treatments on local patients: "There are certain cases that will get better no matter what antibiotics you put them on. And the purpose of this study is to show that others need no medicine, just drain the abscess they'll be able to defeat the infection.” |
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September 16, 2007 | The Day
John W. Rafal says he was truly flattered when Barron's financial weekly named him the nation's top independent financial adviser. Rafal, a University of Connecticut graduate who holds a law degree from Temple University, is no stranger to accolades. He's already been ranked highly for the past four years in Barron's Top 100 Financial Advisers listings, which included independent advisers as well as those who work for giant financial-services firms such as Merrill Lynch or UBS. |
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September 16, 2007 | Monterey (Calif.) Herald
Football players are used to getting hurt, but sometimes the injury is life changing. "Research started in the early 1970s, when it wasn't uncommon for more than 30 players a year to sustain paralyzing injuries. Dr. Joseph Torg of Temple University led a groundbreaking study that found most of the devastating injuries occurred when a tackler made initial contact with the top of his helmet." |
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September 16, 2007 | Washington Times
“There's good reading these days for area football fans who can tear themselves away from the tube. Come to think of it, perusing pigskin pages is a dandy way to ignore all those endless commercials. Local authors Michael Richman and Keith Cavanaugh have done themselves proud with meaty, interesting volumes on the Almighty Redskins and Maryland coach Ralph Friedgen, respectively. Devotees of either team should be fascinated with The Redskins Encyclopedia ($35, Temple University Press, 418 pages, illus.)” |
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September 15, 2007 | Daily News, Philadelphia Inquirer
Can thousands of men be recruited to flood the streets of Philadelphia's most crime-ridden neighborhoods as volunteer peacekeepers? Philadelphia's top cop, Sylvester Johnson, thinks so, and the commissioner has committed the cooperation of his department to "A Call to Action: 10,000 Men," being promoted by religious and civic leaders. A rally and registration event is planned for Oct. 21, a Sunday, at the Liacouras Center on the Temple University campus. |
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September 15, 2007 | Indianapolis Star
Nursing homes in the Indianapolis area are among the nation's most segregated, according to a new study that said the situation often leads to a lower quality of care for vulnerable minority residents. "There is a fairly high correlation between residential segregation and nursing home segregation," said David Barton Smith, professor emeritus at Temple University's Fox School of Business and author of the report. Smith said the findings could be attributed to a combination of three factors: geographic-based choices by residents, income and economic circumstances, and discrimination. |
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September 14, 2007 | Voice of America
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been hospitalized with "extreme exhaustion," a day after announcing his intention to resign. The announcement was made as members Mr. Abe's party lined up to run for his job. Jeff Kingston is director of Asian Studies at Temple University in Japan. He says that if (Taro) Aso becomes Japan's next leader, the result may not be popular with Japan's neighbor, China. "If he does get the job, this is going to raise issues about reconciliation issues with China," noted Kingston, "because he is tied to the Taiwan Lobby and he's made a number of public comments, derogatory comments, about China, so from Beijing's perspective, he's a bit of a nightmare scenario." |
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September 13, 2007 | NPR's "Talk of the Nation"
Do kids need more of parents -- or less? Laurence Steinberg, Temple psychology professor and author of The Ten Basic Principles of Good Parenting, joined host Andrea Seabrook to discuss how much parental involvement is too much. "There's nothing wrong with wanting to steer your kid in the right direction," Steinberg said, "but I think that parents can become sometimes so emotionally intrusive that they kind of suffocate the child's development and they may end up doing more harm than good." |
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September 13, 2007 | Action News 6ABC
FitFlops first became a huge hit in Britain, and just a few months ago, they became available here in the U.S. at a price of $45. The company says the shoe's unique design tones and tightens your legs and behind with every step. "There is no shoe that can substitute for a workout," said Tracey Vlahovic of Temple University's School of Podiatric Medicine. "I think every step you take in general helps trim and tone your legs." |
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September 13, 2007 | Wall Street Journal
A retirement portfolio dominated by stock funds isn’t always the right option, even for younger workers, says Jack VanDerhei, a Temple University professor and fellow at the Employee Benefit Research Institute. “If people think that they might need that money in the very short term -- for retirement, a hardship withdrawal, or something else -- they may want to consider keeping some of the money in something relatively liquid, such as a money-market fund,” he says. |
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September 13, 2007 | Jewish Exponent
As the most visible aspect of her appearance, hair has been called a woman's crowning glory. But does changing her hairstyle make a woman feel better about herself and about life, and more positive, more hopeful about the day to day? “It could be a way to be nice to yourself after a good day at work -- I earned this; I deserve this -- so, generally, it's not a terrible thing, but a healthy, positive activity that has to be kept in the proper perspective," explained David Baron, M.S.Ed., D.O., professor and chair of the department of psychiatry at the Temple University School of Medicine and Hospital. |
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September 13, 2007 | Philadelphia Daily News
An editorial supporting the creation of “day reporting centers” to relieve jail overcrowding cites “a Temple University study released last year [that] laid some of the problem on ineffective pre-trial- release guidelines and the increased jailing of individuals for preliminary arraignments.” |
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September 13, 2007 | Philadelphia Daily News
Columnist Kimberly Garrison offers a quiz for readers to test their knowledge of children’s fitness. Robert Whittaker, a specialist in childhood obesity at Temple University’s Center for Obesity Research and Education (CORE), and Eileen Ford, a nutritionist at CORE, both contributed to the quiz with questions about the importance of parents setting a good example of healthy behavior and the need to make exercise and healthy eating a family activity. |
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September 12, 2007 | NPR, "Morning Edition"
Temple University Japan professor Phil Deans discusses the decision by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to step down. |
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September 12-14, 2007 | Cleveland Plain Dealer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Stories on research by Temple emeritus faculty member David Barton Smith on racial disparities in nursing home care continue to emerge, particularly in Midwestern cities, where Smith's research found that African-Americans were much more likely to receive substandard nursing home care compared to white Americans. |
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September 12, 2007 | Channel News Asia - Singapore
The resignation of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe can be attributed, in part, to the differences between Abe and his predecessor, Junichiro Koizumi. “The problem is that Koizumi changed the expectations,” said Jeffrey Kingston, a scholar at Temple University in Tokyo. “Koizumi was always sending short messages ready to order for the evening news and repeating them. But Abe goes on and on,” he said. |
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September 12, 2007 | Agence France-Presse
Those looking to succeed Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe might want to remember that “It’s a very, very bad time to be Japanese prime minister,” said Professor Phil Deans, an expert on Japanese politics at Tokyo’s Temple University. The Liberal Democratic Party is doing badly in the opinion polls, it has lost control of the upper house and is “finally confronting an opposition that has a vague idea of how to act as an opposition after 50 odd years,” he said. |
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September 12, 2007 | USA Today, Reuters (Boston Globe, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, others), ABC News.com, Richmond Times-Dispatch
"The nursing-home industry is still quite segregated," says researcher David Barton Smith of Temple University in Philadelphia. "There are homes for blacks and homes for whites." His study of 7,196 nursing homes in 147 metropolitan areas throughout the USA is one of the first to document a troubling trend in care provided to black Americans. "It is time to air the dirty laundry" about the problem, Smith says. |
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September 12, 2007 | USA Today
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced his resignation on Wednesday, ending a year-long term that was repeatedly damaged by blunders and scandal. Abe will remain in office until elders from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) pick a replacement. The top candidate is Taro Aso, the party's secretary general and a former foreign minister with hawkish views toward China and North Korea. "Aso is the best-positioned," says Temple University Japan's Jeff Kingston, author of Japan's Quiet Transformation. "He wants the job. It seems that party elders are going to rally behind him." |
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September 12, 2007 | The New York Times
Two days after he was paralyzed during a game, and one day after doctors described his condition as potentially life-threatening, Buffalo Bills tight end Kevin Everett was moving his arms and legs Tuesday. Dr. Joseph Torg, professor of orthopedics at Temple University, said Tuesday that it was difficult to make generalizations with spinal cord injuries. “You want to see improvement in the first 24 to 72 hours if the individual will have a normal recovery,” Torg said. “Every case is unique. You can’t close any doors any way this early. The fact he has some spinal cord function is extremely optimistic.” |
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September 12, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Temple Tyler School of Art grad and adjunct instructor Amy Stevens is literally turning cake into a work of art. “Stevens had found her new medium. Others may eat cake; she would make pastry her art,” writes Karen Heller. |
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September 11, 2007 | Bennington (VT) Banner
Area officials are hailing a new study that finds school-based mentoring programs effective, because such a program has had a home in Bennington for a few years. The study, conducted by Big Brothers Big Sisters and the Institute for Survey Research at Temple University, is the first of its kind to look specifically at school-based mentoring programs. |
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September 11, 2007 | USA Today
Overweight employees who were paid a small amount lost more weight than those who weren't compensated for their efforts, according to one of the first studies to examine such a strategy at workplaces. Gary Foster, director of the Center for Obesity Research and Education at Temple University, says, "Weight control is tough work, and any incentives that employers can provide would be welcome among the millions of Americans who are trying to manage their weight." |
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September 11, 2007 | Voice of America
Two days of talks between North Korea and Japan have drawn to a close in Mongolia with an agreement to meet again, but little else. One problem: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s hard line on the issue of North Korean kidnappings of Japanese nationals in the 1970s and 80s. "This is the issue that catapulted him into the premiership. He became famous because of his hard line on North Korea," he said. "However, now Japan has backed itself into a corner." |
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September 11, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
PBS will air a documentary tonight on the “Camden 28,” a group of Vietnam-era war protesters. The film takes a look at their actions and their lives since the 1970s. The documentary includes David Kairys, one of the principal lawyers for the protesters, now Beasley Professor of Law at Temple. |
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September 10, 2007 | Philadelphia Business Journal
The issue contains a series of stories that highlight the Fox School of Business.
In one, PMBA graduate Christy Gaughan, who already had an MS in statistics, enrolled in the Fox MBA program to give her a broader understanding of business. "Our executive program has a couple of electives, but not at the breadth or depth that our part-time program would have," said Will McDonald, the director of graduate enrollment at the Fox School.
In another, IMBA graduate Rory Wilson, explains how a Fox IMBA, which took him to Paris and to Tokyo, gave him the tools he needed to get ahead.
In looking at women in business programs, a third article notes that Temple's Fox School of Business, has made a concerted effort to recruit talented women. Fox EMBA grad Phyllis Ludwig, one of those talented women says, "The program was life-changing."
A fourth article discusses the school’s turnaround management course, taught by Rob Katz, the Turnaround Management Association's vice president of public relations and a Temple Alum. Chris Pavlides, executive director of Temple's Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute explains how Temple saw the need for the course, "From the academic perspective, I saw a lot of value in a course like that, especially taught by industry people who had a lot of experience," Pavlides said. |
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September 10, 2007 | Fox29
Temple is engaged in a new awareness-building campaign about the changes taking place at the university. “The cherry and white might be the same, but almost everything else has changed, and students say it’s for the better,” reports Bruce Gordon. “It’s definitely gotten bigger, it’s a lot more modern, it’s cleaner and it’s a lot more diverse,” said student Karen Conway, a junior from West Philadelphia. “We have a 24/7 vibrant campus life here,” explains Mark Eyerly, associate vice president for communications. |
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September 10, 2007 | Evening Bulletin
"Casinos have been sold to citizens as the latest and greatest way to do economic development and save cities," said Frederic Murphy, professor of business and management at Temple University. Murphy, who says he is the first to do an independent consumer impact study on casinos in Philadelphia, said casinos will reap a mere 1-2 percent of their returned investment. "In fact, like so many economic development strategies, they cost jobs." |
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September 10, 2007 | NBC10
Gene Maggioncalda, a facilities superintendent at Temple University, converted his 1978 El Camino into an electric car and spends just $3 a week on gas now. Under the cherry red vehicle's hood, the place normally reserved for an engine and cylinders is lined with 12 battery cells that power an electric motor. In the spot where most people would place a nozzle to gas up, Maggioncalda simply uses a plug. |
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September 10, 2007 | Physician’s News Digest
As one of four subcontractors nationwide and the only site in Philadelphia, Temple will receive $1.8 million in funding from the Olive View-UCLA Education and Research Institute, the lead investigator for STOP MRSA, a $9 million, five-year, five-center trial funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health. STOP MRSA will evaluate various treatments for patients with skin and soft tissue infections caused by community-acquired-MRSA. Another goal of the study is to gain approval from the Food and Drug Administration for the use of generic antibiotics to treat MRSA infections, which would offer patients a low-cost treatment option. |
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September 10, 2007 | NBC10
Dr. Darilyn Moyer, Infectious Disease Specialist, Temple University Health System, explained what bacterial meningitis is, its symptoms and how to vaccinate to protect against it, in the wake of a local college student's death from the disease. |
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September 10, 2007 | ABC 6
Dr. Andrea McCoy, Pediatric Primary Care Physician,TUCMC, also discussed bacterial meningitis and how to guard against it. |
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September 10, 2007 | InsideHigherEd.com
Is philosophy an inherently sexist discipline of academic study? Miriam Solomon, a professor of philosophy at Temple University … believes that “In part, it is the discipline that creates the tension, she said. Abstraction and formalism, which are major approaches to the field, ‘are associated with masculine forms of thinking.’ Then, she said, because women have not reached a critical mass, sexist remarks are made and go unchallenged — in ways that would not be socially acceptable in other fields,” writes Scott Jaschik for Inside Higher Ed. |
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September 10, 2007 | Daily News
“According to Vegas Vic, the last time it happened was Oct. 25, 2003: Temple's football team was favored by four points, at home, against Rutgers. The Owls lost, 30-14. They have played 38 games against Division I-A opponents since then, all as underdogs. They have won twice, both at home. On Saturday at Lincoln Financial Field, the Owls and second-year coach Al Golden host Buffalo in their first game as a member of the Mid-American Conference. And, not shockingly, they are favored by 3 1/2 points, by people who are supposed to know,” writes Mike Kern. |
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September 10 issue | Newsweek international edition
A new pairing is taking place in Asia, with the United States siding with traditional allies like Japan, and Russia working more closely with China. Will Vladimir Putin and Russia side with China in case of a military attack? "Putin is anti-Western, a former KGB hack, but he's not going to go to war or even start major confrontation with the U.S. for the sake of the Chinese," says Robert Dujarric, a security expert at Temple University in Tokyo. |
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September 9, 2007 | Inter Press Service
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe might be on his way out. ‘’When Abe took office he rode the image of an ambitious young leader who symbolized a new page in Japan. But he has done so badly that the message (he projects) is gloomy -- that Japan’s postwar generation of leaders do not have the capacity to steer the country, now a respected economic powerhouse, into a leader in Asia,’’ Phil Deans, political analyst at the Temple University, Tokyo. Jeff Kingston, an international relations expert at Temple University said he believed that Abe’s possible exit does not mean an end to conservative policies since he is likely to be succeeded by an equally conservative foreign minister. |
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September 9, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Ursala Augustine started her successful Center City makeup salon while working with Temple University's Small Business Development Center to come up with a business plan. She took out loans that roughly added up to $100,000. "Ursula had considerable experience in makeup and really understood her target market," said Darlene Atta, director of the Temple University program. Within the last five years, Atta said, there has been a mini-explosion in small-business owners' interest in opening fashion-based companies. |
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September 9, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Yan Lyansky was a Temple student 10 years ago when he started his business, DownTube, which manufactures folding bikes. "Yan was the only math student I have ever seen who could not be separated from a bicycle," said Wei-Shih Yang, math professor at Temple University. "He biked to school every day for years, and his bike was always in or around every math seminar I organized." |
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September 8-10, 2007 | Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle, Allentown Morning Call, Harrisburg Patriot News, York Dispatch, Phillyburbs.com, others.
Temple University is renovating the Baptist Temple to create a new multi-purpose center. The work will return the building to its historic prominence in the city of Philadelphia. The work will take two years, but the transition is a natural one for the building. 'It didn't look like a church, it didn't feel like a church -- it felt more like a theater,'' said Ken Jacobs, project manager for RMJM Hillier, the architectural firm in charge of the renovations. |
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September 8, 2007 | Health Radio Network, “You The Owner's Manuel”
Drs. John Daller, Kidney Transplant Surgeon, and Serban Constantinescu, Transplant Nephrologist, Temple University Health System, were the featured guests on a 20-minute live radio show that airs on radio stations in more than 40 major U.S. and Canadian cities including Boston, Denver, Las Vegas, and Chicago, as well as live on their website. The show focused on various aspects of kidney health, disease and treatment including transplant. |
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September 8, 2007 | Associated Press
What makes risk takers – Like Steve Fossett, the millionaire who was constantly looking to break new records – different than most people? "When you get to the very bottom of people who take risks, it's the thrill of it," said Temple University psychologist Frank Farley. "It can be a physical thrill, it can be a mental thrill, or it can be both." But that same desire for risk is also what makes people like Fossett successful, Farley added. "In fact, it's the impulse that created the modern world, it's the force of inventiveness, creativity, individuality, change and survival." |
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September 8, 2007 | KYW radio
September is National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month and it’s important for men to be screened for the disease. Men need to know that prostate cancer attacks in large numbers says Temple University radiation oncologist Curtis Miyamoto: "Prostate cancer is the number one diagnosed cancer in the United States. Almost 220,000 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2007. It is also responsible for approximately 27,000 deaths in the United States annually." |
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September 7, 2007 | Science magazine
Policy makers have a growing interest in early childhood education, but are centering their efforts on how the brain develops. “Unfortunately, this enthusiasm has caused us to neglect research that tells us how children learn,” said Temple psychologist Kathy Hirsh-Pasek in an op-ed she recently co-authored. “We applaud the attention directed to the world's youngest citizens, and urge that policies, standards, curricula, and, to the extent possible, commercial ventures, be sensitive to evidence-based practice based on the best scientific research.” |
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September 7, 2007 | NPR “Morning Edition”
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek discussed the implications of a new study that compares learning behavior in chimps and young humans. Hirsch-Pasek says that partly because we humans are so social, we were able to develop sophisticated language, which "has allowed us to record and transmit our history. And that means in some sense, we can even speed the course of evolution through language, because we don't have to learn everything with each child born – anew," she says. |
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September 7, 2007 | Associated Press, KYW, WHYY, CBS3, Fox29
Temple University is renovating the Baptist Temple to create a new multi-purpose performance center. The work will return the building to its historic prominence in the city of Philadelphia. 'It didn't look like a church, it didn't feel like a church -- it felt more like a theater,'' said Ken Jacobs, project manager for RMJM Hillier, the architectural firm in charge of the renovations. |
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September 7, 2007 | Financial Times
Japan has recently changed its approach to North Korea. “Robert Dujarric, a security expert at Tokyo’s Temple University, said Japan had softened for two reasons. First, it was worried about being isolated after strong signs that Washington was pushing for a swift resolution of the nuclear issue. Second, said Mr Dujarric, Mr Abe, who had made his political career by being tough on Pyongyang, was much weaker following a crushing defeat in upper house elections in July.” |
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September 7, 2007 | NPR, “Morning Edition”
New research shows that while we might share similar DNA, human children outperform primates when it comes to learned social behaviors. “Being able to learn quickly from others is a social skill that the human children certainly excelled at. Temple University psychology professor Kathryn Hirsch-Pasek says that partly because we humans are so social, we were able to develop sophisticated language, which ‘has allowed us to record and transmit our history. And that means in some sense, we can even speed the course of evolution through language, because we don't have to learn everything with each child born – anew,’ she says.” |
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September 7, 2007 | MSN
Want to know what’s going on around town? Try the online calendar for your local university. “We’ve worked hard to make our central online calendar accurate,” says Betsy Winter Hall, editor of Temple University’s Temple Times. “The online calendar is the place from which events propagate” to other media outlets. |
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September 7, 2007 | Wall Street Journal
Policy makers often use statistics to prove their points, but do Americans understand? “Mathematician John Allen Paulos, author of several books about numbers and how they are used, says his students at Temple University in Philadelphia often can't grasp the scale of large figures. He has told them a million seconds is equivalent to 11.5 days, and then asked how many days contain a billion seconds. ‘I often get answers like twice as much or 10 times as much.’ (It's 11,500 days, or about 31.5 years.)” |
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September 6, 2007 | CN8, “Art Fennell Reports”
Dr. James Mamary, Pulmonologist, Temple Lung Center, was interviewed on the topic of the connection between certain chemicals used on microwave popcorn and lung disease. Medical research shows the condition has been documented among workers in popcorn factories who frequently inhale those chemicals. Now, a consumer, who ate two bags a day for ten years and inhaled the fumes from the freshly-popped bags, could possibly be suffering from the same condition. |
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September 6, 2007 | Atlanta Journal Constitution
President Bush used meetings with China's president and a top Australian politician on Thursday to defend his positions on climate change, free trade and international security. A main objective of the weekend meeting will be to "give added momentum" to free trade, said Jeffrey Kingston, director of Asian Studies at Temple University's Tokyo campus. "I think they are just trying to make sure that the death of the Doha talks (on free trade) doesn't mean an end to further trade liberalization," he said. |
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September 6, 2007 | Fox 29
“A lot has changed since Brian Grubb was last on Temple’s campus. Before, he was a carefree college student. Now, he is a quadriplegic paralyzed from the neck down. The freak accident that caused his injuries severely limited what he is able to do, but it didn't destroy his dreams. |
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September 6, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Ellen Yin, whose influential restaurant, Fork, ignited the Old City restaurant scene 10 years ago, has published a book of recipes, published by Temple University Press. She continues to make changes, to keep Fork an important eatery. "A restaurant that doesn't reinvent itself on an ongoing basis doesn't survive," says Yin, who travels frequently to Paris and Tuscany, always returning inspired with new recipes. |
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September 6, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Business Journal, Legal Intelligencer
Dean Robert Reinstein announced today that he would step down at the end of this academic year to teach and to focus on other academic pursuits. "My first love of law has always been centered on teaching and scholarship, and I am anxious to pursue my passion by returning to the faculty," Reinstein said. "I am most grateful for Dean Reinstein's remarkable service to Temple," President Ann Weaver Hart said. "Under his leadership, the Beasley School of Law has grown by every measure. In addition, Bob's impact on Temple has been felt globally, through his work in developing and expanding international programs in China, at Temple University Japan, Temple Rome, and around the world." |
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September 6, 2007 | Prevention magazine
"With fewer responsibilities and no early morning wake-up calls, even weekday teetotalers don't think twice about a cocktail before dinner--and then another while they eat. The problem: 'Alcohol breaks down inhibitions, so it's harder to make healthy food choices when you do sit down,' says Gary Foster, PhD, director of the Center for Obesity Research and Education at Temple University. A glass of Cabernet and a few handfuls of mixed nuts while making dinner or waiting to be seated can add up to more than 600 calories--and that's even before the appetizer." |
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September 6, 2007 | NBC10
Dr. David Baron, Chair of Psychiatry,Temple University Health System, did a live, in-studio interview on the increased rates of suicide among America's youth. Federal health officials said the suicide rate among preteen and teenage girls has risen to its highest level in 15 years. The report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows the biggest jump -- about 76 percent -- was in the suicide rate for girls ages 10 to 14 from 2003 to 2004. |
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September 5, 2007 | Montgomery Newspapers
Says Mike Morsch: “For this one, you'll need what's called "turf tolerant" shoes - something that can stand a little bit of mud and grass. That's because Temple University Ambler's second annual "Rhapsody in Bloom" is a garden party, and if the weather doesn't cooperate, it could be a little difficult on one's footwear. ‘The garden is grass. If we have any rain, high heels are going to be problematic,’ said Jim Hilty, dean of the Temple Ambler campus.” |
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