January 24, 2002

• Special Report: Turnaround - The neighborhood is looking good
  Six years after Penn refocused its attention on its home neighborhood, the Current takes a look at Penn's investments and how the neighborhood has changed.
• Universities take on the role of redevelopers
• Little scholars from near and far
• Business success means streets are jumping
• Penn's "greene countrie towne"
• It took a community and the University to raise a neighborhood
• Get to know the neighbors

• Protein fights nerve loss
• Science, media and ethics contend
• New one-on-one coaching

• Research: Do ads get teens to just say no?
• Staff Q&A: By night, Ron Washington cleans the halls of Leidy Labs. But let us tell you about his day job.

• Ask Benny: A new column answers your Penn questions
• Of mice, men and embryonic stem cells
• Human nature takes a walk
• Defend yourself
• Courses for a better you

• Event Listings
• Editor's Pick: A documentary revolution
• The dream lives on
• Kids' festival: In the market for fun
• People's Choice: Resolutions come and go; food serves keep serving

• News Briefs
• Bookquick from the University Press
• Quoted Recently
• At Leisure with... Book Talk
• Campus Buzz

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“Adolescence has been stretched so much it’s becoming an obsolescent term.”

—Frank F. Furstenberg Jr., professor of sociology, on how professionals have stretched the end of adolescence as far as age 34 (The Washington Post, Jan. 2)