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  • Weiss Pavilion fits fitness under Franklin Field arches
  • Fels consultant John Kromer on how to fix broken cities
  • Novel drug treatment may shrink breast-cancer tumors
  • ACA helps alumni kids be the best applicants they can be
  • Penn Reading Project’s The Big Necessity makes excrement interesting
  • Penn Spectrum sends message: “We are Penn—all of us are Penn”
  • “If the shipwreck is in the water, why would I stay on land?”
  • C.T. Alexander W’56 on his 50th year behind the mic at Franklin Field
  • Despite tragedy, football’s prospects look bright
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  • EXHIBITION Surveying Wharton Esherick’s works in wood
  • BOOKS Ideological slugger. The Empire Strikes Out
  • BOOKS Beyond Bovary. One Hundred Great French Books
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  • Dan Rottenberg C’64 still believes in journalism
  • Cenk Uygur W’92 delivers the “real news” on The Young Turks
  • Jabari Evans C’04 and Michael Aguilar EAS’01 take hip-hop to school
  • Gianna Driver W’04 saves other women from the life her mother escaped
  • Lynn Toler L’84 lays down the law on Divorce Court
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Notes to a Younger Mother
In her new book, writer-mom and autism activist Susan Senator C’84 G’85 shows how to make the most of the unexpected life. By Susan Frith.
Plus: An excerpt from The Autism Mom’s Survival Guide

Paternity Test
Between Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, which Founding Father did the most—by far—to promote and shape the future of public education in America? (Hint: He also published a periodical with the same name as this one.) By Michael Zuckerman

A Double Reward
A program at the School of Veterinary Medicine provides free surgery and follow-up care to shelter dogs with mammary tumors and matches them with willing owners, while also collecting data that could advance treatment of human breast cancers. By Kathryn Levy Feldman

Art History Lessons
An exhibit at the Arthur Ross Gallery offers a revealing look at some treasures of the University’s art collection—but a walk around campus works, too. By Molly Petrilla

When Wax Was Hot
Four decades ago, a Penn-dominated rock band was poised to take the world by storm. What happened? By Geoff Ginsberg

Volume 109, No.1
Cover Photo by Jared Leeds

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