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October
17, 2003
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Animated
medical imagery is subject of Oct. 23 lecture |
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An
animated embryo represents recent imaging innovations by medical illustrators
like Bradley Smith of the School of Art & Design. His 5 pm public
lecture at the Michigan Theater will address how prenatal imagery
affects social and political debates about the legal status of the
embryo and fetus. |
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Manufacturing
jobs may be gone for good |
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"I think we will be doing well if the
manufacturing sector has as many jobs five years from now as it does
today," says Donald Grimes, an economist at the U-M Institute
of Labor and Industrial Relations.
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More
U-M inventions readied for "Tech Transfer" |
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A new scalpel for use in cataract surgery and
a process for making building, clothing and other materials that react
to changes in light are two recent products of U-M inventors.
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Talking
about the movies—with Frank Beaver |
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One hundred years ago this fall, when motion
pictures were barely a decade old, "The Great Train Robbery,"
a one-reel, 10-minute Western shot in New Jersey, proved a major catalyst
for both film aesthetics and film business.
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Listen
to Julie Ellison read 'Ice Words in April'
Hear 'Ice Words in April' 
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Poet and English professor Julie Ellison heads
a poetry project that works with elementary schoolchildren. She wrote
this poem for them as encouragement.
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The
End of Detroit: How the Big Three Lost Their Grip on the American
Market |
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"Detroit's single-handed control of the
American auto industry has been lost forever," says Business
School lecturer Micheline Maynard. The battle with the imports is
almost over, she says, and her compelling array of interviews, economic
statistics and colorful analyses of marketing factors explains why
Detroit is losing.
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The
poor need to embrace self-reliance, automation and freedom, philosophy
prof says |
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Frithjof Bergmann says Wayne County, Michigan,
and South Africa are testing his theory that building technologically
advanced "neighborhood industries" can reduce poverty, despair
and crime among the have-nots.
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Listen
to a bit of the opening movement of "Spaghetti Western"
by Michael Daugherty
Hear an excerpt from "Strade
Vuote" (Empty Street)
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"Strade Vuote (Empty Streets)" begins
composer Michael Daugherty's concerto "Spaghetti Western for
English Horn and Orchestra." It's one of 3 pieces by U-M faculty
on the new U-M Symphony Orchestra CD "Bassett, Bolcom, Daugherty."
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Sniff
the flu away |
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FluMist, a new nasal spray flu vaccine on the
market this flu season, represents the culmination of four decades
of research by a University of Michigan professor. |
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Talking about words |
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| A
CRISP acronym |
'CRISP
is a U-M family acronym,' says our language expert Richard
W. Bailey. The Michigan Daily photo on the next page shows
students in 1997 petitioning unsuccessfully to have alumnus
James Earl Jones become the telephone voice of the 'CRISP
Lady.'
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