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highlights from recent stories about Temple in the media. Links were active when these stories were compiled,
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December 30, 31 2007 | PCN (Pennsylvania Cable Network)
Temple President Ann Weaver Hart was interviewed as part of the state cable network’s series of “PCN Profiles”. |
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December 28, 2007 | Inside Higher Ed.com
“Five university presses have announced a collaboration that seeks to find a way to reduce costs of scholarly publishing and to allow more books to be released. The collaboration, created with funds from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will set up a joint operation for copy editing, design, layout and typesetting for the work in American literatures … The collaboration is being formally announced at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association, which opened in Chicago Thursday. NYU Press will manage the grant, which will also involve Fordham University Press, Rutgers University Press, Temple University Press and the University of Virginia Press.” |
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December 23 & 30, 2007 | CBS3, “Newsmakers” (video links)
For the 16th year, James Hilty appeared with other experts to discuss the leading issues of the past year and look ahead to the stories that will dominate 2008. Hilty, acting dean of Temple University Ambler and professor of history, discussed the Bush presidency and the upcoming presidential election. |
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December 30, 2007 | HealthDay, Washington Post, others
Emerging research shows that men with a pack-a-day smoking habit are almost 40 percent more likely to struggle with erectile dysfunction than men who don't smoke. "Smoking delivers nicotine and other vasoconstrictors that close down the blood vessels" of the penis, explained Dr. Jack Mydlo, chairman of urology at the School of Medicine and Hospital. |
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December 29, 2007 | St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Miami Herald, others
Instead of making New Year’s resolutions that you won’t keep, Temple University psychologist Frank Farley recommends using the new year as an opportunity to assess your past and look ahead. “Farley said that New Year's represents a good time to reflect on the past year and ‘take psychological stock or personal stock of ourselves. Try to decide, “OK, I'm going to work on this. I'm going to do that.” The taking stock, whether you make resolutions or not, is very helpful at the end of the year.’ “ |
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December 27, 2007 | Reuters Health
The presence of bacterial vaginosis (BV) during the first trimester of pregnancy doubles the risk of miscarriage by the end of the second trimester, researchers report in the November issue of Fertility and Sterility. Led by Dr. Deborah B. Nelson of the department of public health, the study included 1916 women at their first prenatal visits. |
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December 27, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News, Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Daily News, others
After being courted for the head coach’s job at UCLA, Temple coach Al Golden withdrew his name. "I am flattered to have been contacted about the coaching vacancy at UCLA," Golden, 38, said. "UCLA is a world-class institution, and athletic director Dan Guerrero is a first-class person. However, we are on the brink of something truly special here at Temple. Our staff, student-athletes and I look forward to what Temple football will accomplish in the future. We have some unfinished business to take care of." |
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December 26, 2007 | The New York Times
Norman Rockwell’s influence can been seen in both illustration and photography. “Rockwell really taught photographers to see those common everyday moments, which he defined through his covers for The Saturday Evening Post,” said Andrew L. Mendelson, chairman of the journalism department at Temple University. “The era of illustrators is really over, and in my argument that era has been replaced by photojournalism,” said Mr. Mendelson, who has written about Rockwell’s impact for publications like Journalism History. |
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December 26, 2007 | Prevention magazine, TodayShow.com, MSNBC.com
To update your arsenal of home remedies, “Prevention” magazine asked seven experts to share their latest discoveries, from headache panaceas to simple solutions for stiff backs. For mosquito bites, Paul Lyons, M.D., associate professor of family and community medicine, suggests rubbing liquid laundry detergent on the spot and letting it dry. The liquid soothes the skin, dries the bite to reduce irritation, and seals the area from outside irritants. |
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December 26, 2007 | Wired News
A countdown of the top 10 organisms that didn't exist on Dec. 31, 2006 included a genetically modified strain of yeast that glows green in the presence of DNT, an ingredient in dynamite. Danny Dhanasekaran of the Temple University School of Medicine developed a method that used rat olfactory genes to sense the chemical and switch on fluorescent-protein producing genes. Biosensors might be better than man-made sensors for applications like detecting nerve gas, because they are cheap to produce. |
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December 25, 2007 | Delaware News Journal
Their symptoms started similarly: blurry vision and slurred speech. Then came the loss of balance, awareness and bowel control. The culprit: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Sometimes it is misdiagnosed as schizophrenia, but the physical harm it causes makes it a disease unlike any other, said Dr. Ausim Azizi, chair of neurology at the Hospital and School of Medicine. "The mental capacity declines very rapidly but so does their memory and their ability to speak and their balance," he said. |
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December 24, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News, New York Times
Former Temple University president Marvin Wachman, whose accomplishments included eliminating the university hospital's $50 million debt and establishing new campuses, has died, the university announced Sunday. He was 90. Wachman was named president of the North Philadelphia university in 1972 and served from 1973 to 1983. |
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December 24, 2007 | Atlanta Journal-Constitution
What should parents tell their children about Santa, and when? “It's helpful to be prepared to talk about the mythology and history of Santa Claus, said Frank Farley, Temple University professor and former president of the American Psychological Association. ‘You might, for example, talk about Clement Moore,’ said Temple University professor Farley, referring to the poet credited with writing ‘A Visit from St. Nicholas,’ the poem that begins ‘ ‘Twas the night before Christmas ...’ ” |
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December 21, 2007 | The Doctor’s Channel
Several Temple University podiatrists were featured on The Doctor’s Channel, a website that collects news from doctors about developments, treatment options and research in their specialty. Dr. Howard Palamarchuk spoke about Gait Analysis; Dr. Kathya Zinzser spoke about diabetic foot wound care; and Dr. Kendrick Whitney spoke about the best shoes for podiatric patients. |
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December 21, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer, CBS3
Temple University Hospital became the first in the Philadelphia area to use an implanted devise to regulate hypertension. The implant "takes advantage of the body's natural pressure sensors to reduce blood pressure and improve cardiovascular function," John Blebea, Temple's chief of vascular surgery, said yesterday. The apparatus is potentially a huge advance, said Blebea, who expects to implant it in at least nine more patients over the next year as part of the study. |
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December 21, 2007 | Tampa Bay Times
The rhetoric of the 2008 presidential campaign is tough for historians to stomach. All too often the candidates invoke former leaders and past eras as they emphasize a point or justify a position. "I think for most historians it's very frustrating to watch politicians use history," said David Farber, a Temple University history professor. "We are happy they are sharing American history, but I think it becomes an exercise more in the ludicrous claims than the legitimate." |
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December 21, 2007 | Baltimore Sun
Although the total number of homicides has gone beyond last year, the rate of Baltimore violent deaths has slowed in recent months. "Who deserves the credit? Don't know," said Ralph B. Taylor, a criminologist at Temple University in Philadelphia, who noted that Baltimore also saw a slowdown in violent crime in recent months. "Do the police deserve at least partial credit? Probably. The challenge will be for the police to continue to adapt as the criminals wise up and change what they do." |
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December 20, 2007 | Main Line Life
A photo essay on HausWerk, a multimedia exhibition put together by Tyler School of Art students, that turns the inside of an empty three-bedroom house in the suburbs into an art exhibit offering wry cultural observations on domesticity, comfort and more. |
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December 20, 2007 | WHYY, “Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane”
Does the 2nd Amendment give an individual the right to own a gun? In 2008, The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to hear arguments whether a municipal handgun ban violates the 2nd Amendment. At stake, legal observers say, is whether the Constitutional right to bear arms meant it for the National Guard or for individual citizens. David Kairys, a law professor at Temple University and Sanford Levinson a law professor at the University of Texas-Austin, debated the issue.
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December 19, 2007 | The Times (London)
In a major story highlighting their many research projects on child development, Temple’s Kathy Hirsh Pasek and the University of Delaware’s Robert Golinkoff say parents should skip the electronic toys this year. “We need to help parents see the amazing value in retro-toys,” Hirsh Pasek says. “We have created a generation of toys that are unsocial, inflexible and tell our kids what to do. Kids become unable to manage their own time and space. We’ve done exactly the opposite of what we need to do.” |
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December 19, 2007 | Agence France Presse
The United States and Japan on Thursday welcomed conservative Lee Myung-Bak’s election in South Korea, hoping the next president will be firmer on North Korea after a decade of liberal rule in Seoul. “ ‘I think everybody in Tokyo and Washington is happy to see the back of Roh Moo-Hyun,’ said Robert Dujarric, a North Korea watcher at Temple University in Tokyo. But he cautioned that conservatives in Washington should not hope for a U-turn in the policy of engaging North Korea launched by Roh’s Nobel Prize-winning predecessor Kim Dae-Jung.” |
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December 19, 2007 | Voice of America
The author of The Redskins Encyclopedia, published by Temple University Press, talks about the surprises he found when researching the book. |
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December 19, 2007 | Science Progress.com
Temple University’s Allen Hornblum, has spent much of his academic life illuminating the dark history of using prisoners for medical research. “His overview of the sorry history of prison research appeared in the British Medical Journal. He focused on the scandalous and shameful use of prisoners in decades of research at Philadelphia’s Holmesburg prison in his 1998 book, Acres of Skin. In his latest book, Sentenced to Science: One Black Man’s Story of Imprisonment in America, Professor Hornblum returns to Holmesburg to zero in on the story of a single prisoner’s life as an experimental subject,” writes Jeff Stryker for the Science Progress website. |
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December 18, 2007 | International Herald Tribune
Writer Jane Brody prominently cites recent research co-authored by Temple University psychologist Frank Farley that examined teens’ perception of risk. “It now becomes clearer why traditional intervention programs fail to help many teenagers,” Farley recently wrote with co-author Valerie F. Reyna, professor of human development and psychology at the New York State College of Human Ecology at Cornell. “Although the programs stress the importance of accurate risk perception, young people already feel vulnerable and overestimate their risks.” |
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Winter 2007 | Remedy magazine
In a guide to the perils of overdoing nutrients, antibiotics, over-the-counter (OTC) medications and beauty products, Patrick McDonnell, Pharm.D., associate professor of clinical pharmacy at the School of Pharmacy says, "There's this belief that if you can get something without a prescription, such as an OTC medication, it's safe. And some people believe that more is better. Neither is the case, however. You should always pay close attention to how you use OTC medications. |
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December 18, 2007 | The New York Times
Writer Jane Brody prominently cites recent research co-authored by Temple University psychologist Frank Farley that examined teens’ perception of risk. “It now becomes clearer why traditional intervention programs fail to help many teenagers,” Farley recently wrote with co-author Valerie F. Reyna, professor of human development and psychology at the New York State College of Human Ecology at Cornell. “Although the programs stress the importance of accurate risk perception, young people already feel vulnerable and overestimate their risks.” |
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December 18, 2007 | Slate.com
With so many terrorist attacks taking place on the 11th, Slate’s “The Explainer” column asks if the date has special meaning, especially in the Muslim faith. Temple University Religion Professor Mahmoud Ayoub helped explain that there was no significance to the date. |
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December 18, 2007 | Associated Press, Virginian-Pilot
Dawn Staley, one of the most decorated and accomplished players in the history of women's basketball, is among seven people who have been selected to the Class of 2008 for the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame. |
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December 18, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Peter Bachrach, 89, a professor emeritus of political science at Temple University, died of an apparent stroke Friday at his home in Southwest Harbor, Maine. Bachrach, who retired from Temple in 1988, advocated political activism by all segments of society. |
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December 18, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Alycia Lane’s career as a local television news anchor could be in jeopardy after her arrest last weekend in a conflict with New York City police, writes Michael Klein. “Tom Petner, director of Temple University's Multimedia Urban Reporting Lab and editor of the TV trade Web site ShopTalk, wondered about her future. ‘I honestly think they'd be hard-pressed to put her back on,’ said Petner, a former news director in New York and Pittsburgh. Chris Harper, a Temple University journalism professor and former producer and correspondent for Newsweek and ABC, said she could return to the air, but he questioned her judgment. ‘Journalists,’ he said, ‘should know better than to confront police outside their working hours.’ ” |
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December 17, 2007 | TIME
Although most of the six nations engaged in negotiations with North Korea are pleased with the outcome, Japan still awaits resolution of a serious dispute: covering the fate of 17 Japanese civilians abducted by the North between 1977 and 1983. "It's a heart-rendering story, and involves issues of sovereignty and human rights," notes Robert Dujarric, director of Temple University's Institute of Contemporary Japanese Studies. "The issue has taken on a life of its own." |
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December 17, 2007 | WQAD-TV (Iowa)
Hemorrhoids are embarrassing to talk about even though they're very common for both men and women. Now doctors are beginning to use a quick and painless treatment option that has some patients feeling better in minutes. "It uses infrared light, which is the same sort of light that fast food restaurants use to keep your food warm while you're waiting to buy it, only it's much more focused," says Dr. Benjamin Krevsky, Director of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy at Temple University Hospital. |
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December 17, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Home is where the art is: HausWerk, a multimedia exhibition put together by Tyler School of Art students, turns the inside of an empty three-bedroom house in the suburbs into an art exhibit offering wry cultural observations on domesticity, comfort and more. For three months, 15 students had the run of 1497 Sugartown Rd., Paoli, Pa., slated for demolition next year. The exhibition is a culminating project for "Sculpture Techniques and Materials," taught by Jennie Shanker. The class required students to act as curators and find a space off-campus to mount a show. Students designed the catalogue, wrote the news release, and organized the food for the opening reception. "We're giving this entire house a second life," said Laura Hricko, 22, a senior from Philadelphia.
Link to a video about HausWerk by Inquirer photographer Ron Tarver. |
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December 16, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer, Career section
The field of therapeutic recreation is more than fun and games. John Shank, professor and chair of therapeutic recreation in the College of Health Professions, says, "Providing disabled and sick patients an opportunity to regain an active life is key to jumpstarting the recovery process." |
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December 15, 2007 | WRTI's "Creatively Speaking"
Host Jim Cotter visited HausWerk, an exhibition mounted by Tyler School of Art students in a single-family home in suburban Paoli, Pa. Each room of the house, which will be demolished next year, has been transformed into a gallery. Among the student installations: a master bedroom filled with shadows and fragrant piles of leaves and another bedroom transformed into an exterior space, complete with siding and fake grass. |
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December 15, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Police in some communities are using – and some say abusing – jaywalking and loitering ordinances. Legal experts including Temple University Law School professor David Kairys say the charges could be on shaky ground. “It's the kind of statute that allows police to pick up just about anyone. Which people do you charge with hanging around? 'Loafing or walking about aimlessly,' what is criminal about that? Are they really giving police authority to pick up people they don't like? It's very much like cases that have been struck down.” |
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December 14, 2007 | Investor's Business Daily
Despite all the hurdles, there is hope of future growth in the pain treatment market, says Albert Wertheimer, director of the Center for Pharmaceutical Health Services Research at Temple University School of Pharmacy. “It's possible that Cox-2 drugs could be made safe with different formulations and combinations,” he said. |
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December 14, 2007 | USA Today
Despite the hard lessons from the 1990s, many employees still have too much of their company’s stock in their investment portfolio. Why? “Some who aren't sure how to invest wisely simply do nothing as their employer automatically invests its 401(k) matching contributions in the company stock, says Jack VanDerhei of the Employee Benefit Research Institute and a professor at Temple University. Eventually, that stock will represent an ever-larger portion of the total 401(k) portfolio.” |
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December 14, 2007 | WHYY radio
Arts and culture correspondent Alex Schmidt visited HausWerk, an art exhibition put together by Tyler School of Art students that answers the question: What would happen if a group of art students were given an empty house in the suburbs and were told they could do whatever they wanted? Indoor and outdoor art installations include a living room turned into an ode to comfort and domesticity with the help of custom-made pillows and a sound installation in the bathroom that takes advantage of the unique acoustics of shower stalls. The exhibition, which is mounted in a house that's set to be demolished, opens this Saturday from 3 to 7 p.m. at 1497 Sugartown Rd. in Paoli, Pa. |
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December 14, 2007 | BBC
Japan's Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda is running the country. But some say the leader of the opposition, Ichiro Ozawa, is controlling what Mr. Fukuda can and cannot do. Professor Phil Deans, from Temple University in Tokyo, says this doesn’t mean Fakuda’s days are numbered. "Ruling parties in parliamentary systems tend to be cautious," he argues. "And they are unlikely to drop Mr. Fukuda at this point, in large part because there is no obvious successor waiting in the wings." |
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December 13, 14, 2007 | CBS3-TV, FOX29-TV
Sen. Mitchell’s report on steroid use in baseball has parents and coaches concerned about the impact on young athletes. Dr. David Baron, professor and chair of psychiatry and behavioral science, says the long-term health repercussions of steroid use are not good. But, “now we’ll be more inclined to educate coaches and parents about the risks and dangers of steroids,” he said. “Sports should be about staying fit and healthy competition.” |
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December 13, 2007 | KING-TV (Seattle), WJRT-TV (Michigan), numerous others
The Gait Study Center at Temple University is considered one of the most advanced labs of its kind in the world. On this high-tech runway, podiatrists get to the bottom of a patient's pain. Force plates imbedded in the floor measure pressure points in the foot. Podiatrist Kathya Zinzer says the important point is that shoes have to fit the person who's going to wear them. "Every person is an individual, and every footprint and foot type is like your own basic fingerprint. So every shoe type is going to be different for different patients." |
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December 13, 2007 | Education Week
A recent poll that indicated teens sometimes feel pressured to engage in unethical behaviors like cheating or lying should not be taken too seriously. “Laurence Steinberg, a widely known expert in adolescent psychology at Temple University in Philadelphia, said the poll’s value is extremely limited because of its design. Without knowing what teenagers meant by ‘sometimes,’ there is no way to understand how frequently they are inclined to flout the rules, he said. He also noted that vast majorities of young people said they would ‘never’ cheat (75 percent) or plagiarize (84 percent).” |
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December 11, 2007 | KYW radio
Beasley School of Law Professor David Kairys discussed the value of shield laws to protect reporters' sources, related to a case involving defense contractor who was convicted of bribing former Congressman Randy Cunningham. The contractor’s attorney believes that grand jury leaks affected the outcome of the case, and wants reporters to reveal their sources. |
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December 11, 2007 | WebMD
The average teen girl gets about 180 minutes of media exposure daily and only about 10 minutes of parental interaction a day, says Renee Hobbs, EdD, associate professor of communications at Temple University. The media often portrays girls as super-thin women. Preventing girls from seeing these images is not only impossible, but could backfire. "It only creates the forbidden fruit phenomenon," Hobbs tells WebMD. Experts suggest that parents' energy is better spent getting their daughters to look at and think critically about the unrealistic way the media portrays girls and women. |
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December 11, 2007 | Baltimore Sun
“After more than a decade's worth of tough-on-crime policies dumped more juvenile offenders into adult prisons, the pendulum is swinging back,” write the editors of the Sun. One study, co-written by Temple University’s Laurence Steinberg, “focused on the public's support of reform programs in four states - and it found that more people would pay higher taxes to rehabilitate juvenile offenders than imprison them.” |
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December 11, 2007 | Tampa Bay Tribune
When the Tampa Bay Rays build their new ballpark, home runs will land in the bay. What happens to the balls after that? LeRoy Alaways, a visiting engineering professor at Temple University said balls that splash in the Bay will likely be carried back to shore by wind and tide. (Alaways’ dissertation on the aerodynamics of the curve ball is considered one of the defining studies of the complex pitch.) “Any kid who finds the ball will treasure it forever,” he said. “And it will create a mystery that will last a lifetime. Who could have hit this ball?” |
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December 10, 2007 | CN8 “Art Fennel Reports”
There’s more proof on the damage caused by second-hand smoke according to several new studies. One study found that teens exposed to secondhand smoke are at increased risk of test failure. Lead author Bradley Collins, Ph.D., assistant professor of public health and director of the Health Behavior Research Clinic at Temple University, runs a health education program that’s designed to protect children from exposure to secondhand smoke by teaching smoking mothers and the entire family about creating a clean home air environment. |
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December 10, 2007 | SmartMoney.com
President Bush’s plan to help those caught with suddenly escalating subprime mortgages could make investors skittish. "This agreement adds a new dimension of risk that investors will have to consider in future," said Anne Zissu, associate professor of finance at Temple University and an author of books on securitization. "Investors in securities backed by mortgages on U.S. property will now have to incorporate the possibility that their financial contracts will be rewritten or at least redirected," she added. "Political risk is not free." |
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December 10, 2007 | The New York Times
Late last month, a federal judge in Canada ruled that the United States had violated international conventions on torture and the rights of refugees. The decision has caused quite a stir in Canada. The Globe and Mail, a Toronto newspaper, said it was “outrageous, and has the whiff of Canadian cultural superiority about it.” Peter J. Spiro, a law professor at Temple University and the author of a new book called Beyond Citizenship, said the issues discussed by the judge were “debatable and unstable.” But, he added, “there is nothing that is way out on a limb about this opinion.” |
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December 10, 2007 | MSN.com
The Princeton Review lists Temple University as one of its top 10 most entrepreneurial colleges. “Hands-on opportunities abound at Temple's Fox School of Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute in Philadelphia. … Temple focuses squarely on entrepreneurship, which is integrated into its mission for urban renewal and economic development.” |
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December 10, 2007 | Daily News
Those Philadelphians sharing their family stories for the StoryCorps project are doing more than recording their private histories. "Oral history is about American history, society and everyday life," said Temple University Professor William Cutler. But it took a while for academics and historians to catch on to the power of individual stories. Before the 1960s, "professors and historians typically interviewed famous people," Cutler said. |
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December 10, 2007 | New York Sun
Mike Huckabee’s campaign has opened a New York office, yet his platform, particularly on immigration issues like discouraging dual citizenship, is not being welcomed there. “ ‘The political problem with any proposal intended to police dual citizenship is you start getting into constituencies beyond the Mexican-American constituency,’ a law professor at Temple University, Peter Spiro, said. In recent years, Americans with ties to Israel, Taiwan, Poland, Iraq, and other nations have voted in those countries in significant numbers. Some groups have even organized airline flights to allow expatriates to cast ballots.” |
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December 10, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
When it comes to executive salary, the race to be competitive is as hard fought in Philadelphia as in any other major urban American city. “Executive compensation is continuing to climb. That is because companies benchmark their compensation against similar companies, according to Temple University accounting professor Steven Balsam, author of Executive Compensation: An Introduction to Theory and Practice. Most companies want to pay their CEOs somewhere above the middle of the range. ‘Over the long run, it tends to run prices up, because no one wants to admit their CEO is below average,’ he said.” |
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December 9, 2007 | KYW radio
Parents looking for great children’s gifts should consider going retro. “Most of the toys on the 2007 hottest toys list are electronic according Dr. Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, professor of psychology at Temple University: ‘They don't foster the kind of creativity that a child's going to need not only now with having fun for play but in the future where we need to build creative thinkers who can take things apart and put them back together to solve problems of tomorrow.’ ”
In addition, an op-ed on the same topic written by Kathy Hirsh-Pasek and Roberta Michnick Golinkoff of the University of Delaware appeared in the Delaware News Journal. “Technotoys have been oversold and are underperforming. The youngest children are losing parental interaction just when they need it most. Infants and toddlers need their parents, not gadgets and gizmos, to answer questions and talk about the tree with the red berries that the child sees out the window.” |
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December 9, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Man-Chiang Niu, 95, a retired Temple University biology professor who helped forge Temple's longstanding relationship with his Chinese homeland, died of complications from bone marrow cancer Nov. 7 at his home in Beijing. |
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December 8, 2007 | Orange County (Calif.) Register
Why would the top law enforcement officer in Orange County – a man finally in possession of a job he had long coveted – allegedly take chances that could humiliate him, destroy his career and land him in federal prison? As Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona battles seven felony counts of corruption many are shaking their heads, sure they've seen this movie before. “Carona appears to have many qualities of the classic ‘Type T’ personality – a risk-taking thrill-seeker who thrives on intensity, challenge, uncertainty and danger, said Frank Farley, a psychologist at Temple University in Philadelphia and former president of the American Psychological Association. ‘They tend to be self-confident. They tend to feel that they control their fate.’ ” |
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December 8, 2007 | (Binghampton, NY) Press and Sun-Bulletin
Young men testing each other by fighting has been going on for all of recorded history, but the proliferation of these fights on YouTube, television and in video games raises the question: Why the popularity of all this fighting? “ ‘Americans are fascinated with the dark side, with the negative side, with the destructive side, and with the violent side,’ said Frank Farley, a Temple University psychology professor. Farley, a former American Psychological Association president who has studied risk-taking in teens and young adults, says he's seen hundreds jam a New Jersey warehouse to watch men try to beat each other to a pulp.” |
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December 7, 2007 | NPR “Day to Day”
Temple history professor David Farber helps to evaluate truth of the latest television commercial from Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani, who uses the 1980 hostage-taking in Iran to discuss the need for tough action. The truth is that the hostages were released after months of negotiations through Algerian diplomats, not because Ronald Reagan had been in office for one hour as the ad indicates. Farber says the ad’s claims are “very misleading,” and the misuse of a potent symbol: Ronald Reagan. |
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December 7, 2007 | Philadelphia Business Journal, The Book Standard
Online Computer Library Center Inc. has selected the head of the library system at Temple University as its next chairman. Dublin, Ohio-based OCLC said Larry Alford, vice provost for libraries and university librarian, will head the 15-member board. A board member since 2002, Alford replaces Lizabeth Wilson, library dean at the University of Washington, who chaired the board for a four-year maximum term. |
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December 7, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
In a step aimed at reducing gun violence in Camden City, a single judge will be taking charge of a big chunk of firearms cases in Camden County, riding herd on plea bargains and speeding cases to their conclusion. Jerry H. Radcliffe, a Temple University criminologist who has been serving as a consultant to the Camden police, said a focus on illegal gun possession made sense. "Gun crime is pervasive in much of the city. It's good that the attorney general is sending a signal that gun crime is taken seriously," Radcliffe said. |
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December 6, 2007 | Jewish Exponent
Madlyn Abramson’s gift to Temple University in honor of her father’s memory has already made a difference at the university’s School of Dentistry. In recognition of the gift, Temple's School of Dentistry has been named the Maurice H. Kornberg School of Dentistry. Writes Lynn Edelman in an extended feature: “This gesture is not only generous, but also historic; it marks the first time that an American dental school has been named in recognition of a philanthropic gift. ‘It was a great accomplishment for my father to get through school; that's why we really wanted the money to go to scholarships for students in need,’ explained Madlyn Abramson. Temple University president Ann Weaver Hart said: ‘We are extremely thankful for the Abramsons' incredible gift,’ adding that ‘it will make a big difference in the lives of future dental students.’ ” |
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December 6, 2007 | ABC6
With so many toys in the stores these days, parents & grandparents can be confused about what's best to buy for kids this holiday season. Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, a Temple University child development expert, says when it comes to helping kids learn, it's time to go back to the basics. She starts with blocks: "When you have to put the blocks together and take them apart, you're doing physics, you're learning about color, you're mastering shape." |
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December 6, 2007 | Jewish Exponent
According to a number of speakers at an academic conference held last week in Center City, called "Evangelical Jewish Relations: Politics, Policy and Theology," some healthy signs do exist -- in addition to some fault lines -- in the emerging alliance between the two groups. Sponsored by the Feinstein Center for American Jewish History at Temple University, the Jewish Theological Seminary and Baylor University, the two-day conference served as a follow-up to one held two years ago in New York. |
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December 6, 2007 | Toledo (Ohio) Blade
Studies that show a leveling in the increase of the nation’s obesity rate are a step in the right direction. But there is more work to do. "We've got to continue to take the problem seriously and be aggressive about finding effective prevention and treatment strategies," noted Gary Foster, director of obesity research and education at Philadelphia's Temple University |
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December 6, 2007 | Daily News
Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks the beta cells in the pancreas that make insulin. "It is most commonly diagnosed in young children during the first decade of life but some teens and young adults get the disease also," said Dr. Susan L. Freeman, endocrinologist and chief medical officer at Temple University Hospital. |
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December 5, 2007 | The Times (London)
Parents are spending too much money on children’s toys at Christmas and need to simplify. The Times recommends picking old-school toys from a list compiled by Temple child psychology professor Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, and the University of Delaware’s Roberta Golinkoff |
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December 5, 2007 | Seattle Times
Writes columnist Andrea Otanez: “When figuring out how to talk to my kids about (song) lyrics — and trying to decide for myself whether any harm can come from them — I came across an interesting Web site called MyPopStudio.com, which was created by researchers and media professionals at the Media Education Lab at Temple University. The creators encourage young girls to critically evaluate media messages. In particular, ‘My Pop Studio is a creative play experience that strengthens critical thinking skills about television, music, magazines and online media directed at girls,’ they say.” |
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December 5, 2007 | KABC Los Angeles
From high heels to as low as they go, women have had a long love affair with shoes. But fashion – and function – don't always mesh. "Every person is an individual and every foot and foot type is like a fingerprint. So every shoe type is going to be different for every patient," says Kathya Zinszer, D.P.M. at Temple University's School of Podiatric Medicine in Philadelphia. With tools available at the Gait Study Center, doctors are able to recommend the appropriate shoes for patients -- before they become injured.
(The story is being distributed nationwide by Ivanhoe Broadcast News, a video wire service serving more than 250 U.S. markets.) |
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December 5, 2007 | Metro
As Philadelphia continues to market itself as a “gay friendly” community for tourism, its hospitality workers need to break down their assumptions about what that means. The Philadelphia Gay Tourism Caucus and Temple University have created the Gay-Friendly Sensitivity Training program to help train the city’s tourism industry workers to cater more directly to the needs of gay tourists. |
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December 5, 2007 | Bucks County Courier-Times
With so little information, it is difficult to speculate on the emotional state of Gina Bobbing-Mormando, the Bucks County wife and mother who disappeared last week. “How many options are there? There’s just so many that you can only wait for more information. It could be foul play,” said Frank Farley, a psychology professor at Temple University. “A second possibility could be that she is walking away from her marriage and her family. Could it be mental illness?” he said. |
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December 4, 2007 | Woman's World
In the "Ask the Doctor" section, Donna Nahass, C.R.P.N, answered a reader's question about improving the mood of an elderly relative: "Your grandmother should get a medical evaluation to find the cause of her sadness and get an okay for any supplements she'd like to try. A possible cause could be vitamin B12 deficiency, in which case a supplement might help. Some herbs, such as St. John's Wort, are also used to lift mood." |
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December 4, 2007 | Harrisburg Patriot-News
University coaches, like Penn State’s Joe Paterno, can supplement their incomes through speaking engagements. “The amount that sports stars can earn above their salaries hinges on the extent of their celebrity, said Lloyd Zane Remick, an attorney who teaches entertainment and sports law at the Temple University Beasley School of Law. "It's like anything in life. It's really governed by supply and demand," said Remick, also CEO of Zane Management, a Philadelphia-based sports and entertainment marketing company. Remick noted that Paterno has been generous with his earnings, giving millions back to Penn State. |
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December 4, 2007 | Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
“Trying to reason with children – who are often unreasonable and irrational – takes skill and patience, but it can be done, experts say. How well you can reason with kids, though, depends on their age and maturity level, and the approaches parents take. ‘I think it's important that parents understand that children are much more likely to comply with parents' wishes and rules when they understand the reasoning behind them,’ says Laurence Steinberg, Ph.D. He is a distinguished university professor who works in the Department of Psychology at Temple University in Philadelphia, and the author of The Ten Basic Principles of Good Parenting.” |
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December 4, 2007 | (Lincoln, Neb.) Journal Star
New electronic games that encourage kids to get up and exercise are popular, but are they the future? Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, a child psychologist and professor at Temple University, cringes to imagine it. The play expert and author of Einstein Never Used Flash Cards cites a 2007 report on play by the American Academy of Pediatrics. The 20-page document bemoans the diminishment of ‘child-driven’ play in the United States, emphasizing how critical it is for brain development, socialization skills, physical dexterity and emotional strength. "We need to get back to true play," she said. What does that mean? 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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December 4, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
The Philadelphia-based American College of Physicians – the nation's second-largest physician group – endorsed a single-payer health-care system yesterday. Thomas E. Getzen, a professor of insurance and health management at Temple University, said doctors had long resisted single-payer systems for fear it would give the government more control over them. |
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December 4, 2007 | Philadelphia Inquirer
“Nearly one in four area workers who died on the job last year was murdered, the highest proportion in the nation, the Labor Department reported yesterday. By contrast, in the New York and northern New Jersey area, one in seven who died on the job was a homicide victim. ‘This is part of a larger picture,’ said Temple University associate professor of criminology Philip Harris, who studies crime in the region. ‘It's parallel to the gun-homicide picture.’” |
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December 2 and 3, 2007 | Associated Press, USA Today, CBSNews.com, YahooNews, Washington Post, FoxNews, Detroit News, International Herald Tribune, CTV (Canada), People’s Daily (China), New York Post, many others
Here’s how Malcolm Ritter begins his major feature story on teens and criminal activity: “The teenage brain, Laurence Steinberg says, is like a car with a good accelerator but a weak brake. With powerful impulses under poor control, the likely result is a crash. And, perhaps, a crime. Steinberg, a Temple University psychology professor, helped draft an American Psychological Association brief for a 2005 case in which the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed the death penalty for crimes committed before age 18.” Steinberg and others say that teens shouldn’t be treated as adults by the courts. |
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December 3, 2007 | Associated Press, Daily News, (Harrisburg) Patriot News, others
Temple lecturer Allen Hornblum has chronicled the experiments done to Holmesburg State Prison inmates in the 1960s. Among the inmates was Edward "Butch" Anthony, who says he had mysterious substances dabbed on his skin and injected in his vein. Anthony is among the people profiled in Sentenced to Science, Hornblum’s new book. |
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December 2, 2007 | The New York Times
Devoting time to a hobby – even for a few minutes a day – can have positive effects on your mood and state of mind. When people do things that make them feel good, like a hobby, it activates an area of the brain called the nucleus accumbens that controls how we feel about life, said Dr. S. Ausim Azizi, chairman of the department of neurology at Temple University’s School of Medicine in Philadelphia who studies brain activity and cell signaling. Activities you enjoy also stimulate the brain’s septal zone — its “feel good” area — and that makes you feel happy, said Dr. Azizi. |
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December 2, 2007 | ABCNews.com
Presidential candidates should be logical thinkers, and Temple University mathematician John Allen Paulos has created a logic quiz that he thinks all presidential candidates should take. |
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December 2, 2007 | Seattle Times
In its roundup of holiday gift books, the Seattle Times recommendedFrankie Manning: Ambassadors of Lindy Hop by Frankie Manning and Cynthia R. Millman and published by Temple University Press. |
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December 2007 | HR Magazine
As 401(k) plans grow, traditional pensions are retreating. "There are major structural changes under way in the American retirement system, driven mainly by cost and accounting pressures," says Jack VanDerhei of Temple's Fox School of Business. The trend is driven by the Pension Protection Act, often raises pension plan costs, and by accounting rule changes that may increase the cost and risk of offering a defined benefit pension to workers. |
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December 2007 l Technology Times
The member update section highlights Fox School of Business news that this year the school enrolled 1,454 new students, the largest enrollment in its history and also graduate enrollment at the school is seeing double-digit increases across programs. In addition, Provost Lisa Staiano-Coico announced that all high school students who participated in Fox School’s 2007 Business Leadership program will receive $1,000 scholarships if they are admitted to and choose Temple. |
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December 2007 | Physician's News Digest
The growing population of the uninsured is straining the safety net in Pennsylvania. Experts agree that the most significant gap in care is access to specialty care. "Philadelphia's District Health Centers are an exception, as the city pays for the referral services, including surgeries, notes Stephen Permut, M.D., chair of family and community medicine at the School of Medicine. |
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December 2007 | HealthPulse
Generous healthcare professionals across the Delaware Valley are making the holidays a time of comfort and joy for community members in need. The Temple School of Pharmacy's gift drive collects toys for patients in the Temple University Hospital Cancer Center. "We have quite a few needy families, and these include grandparents who have taken over the care of their grandchildren," says faculty member Rachel Clark-Vetri, PharmD, who spearheads the effort. |
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December 2007 issue | M.D. News
Dr. Alfred A. Bove is the cover story for the premiere issue of M.D. News magazine. Bove, professor emeritus of cardiology, headed up the oldest heart transplant program in the region, solves mathematical problems for fun and is an avid scuba diver. |
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December issue | Women's Health
“When a Detroit Tigers pitcher missed three games last year due to Wii-itis, an inflammation of the nerves in the arm caused by playing the Nintendo Wii too often, it became clear that faux sports games can cause real-life injuries. ‘If you overuse the muscles and tendons surrounding a nerve, it compresses it and causes pain,’ said S. Ausim Azizi, MD, chair of the Department of Neurology at Temple University School of Medicine.” |
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December 2007 | Good Housekeeping
In a Temple University study, internists who practiced listening to common heart murmurs on their portable audio players significantly improved stethoscope skills. On average, physicians identified heart sounds correctly 40 percent of the time. Those who did the iPod training scored twice as high, nailing the murmurs 80 percent of the time. |
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December issue | Health magazine
Suffering from a post holiday slump is perfectly normal. But rather than view the coming months as a holding pattern until spring, David Baron, professor and chair of the department of psychiatry, suggests planning fun activities with friends to help beat the winter doldrums. If this sadness has sprung up before, Baron suggests looking back to identify the cause. Being prepared and having a sense of control can be protective and empowering, Baron says. |
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December issue | Cosmopolitan
In an article discussing sexually transmitted diseases, Paul Lyons, associate professor of family and community medicine at Temple University in Philadelphia, shared statistics about the transmission and symptoms of common STDs.
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