| • | Businesses can promote peace in global economy |
| | A new Michigan Business School study by Cindy Schipani and Tim Fort shows that business activities can mediate tensions that increase the potential for violence and contribute to peace.
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• | Talking about the movies with Frank Beaver |
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Many
religious films have sparked controversies. A 1952 US Supreme Court
case over The Miracle, in which an Italian goat herd (Anna
Magnani) believes she has given birth to a new messiah, was the first
to give cinema the protection of the First Amendment.
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• | Long-frozen remains may help save snail species from extinction |
| | Some 600 vials stored in a U-M freezer since the 1970s may hold keys to rescuing nearly extinct Tahitian land snails. Famous since the late 1800s as classic examples of a species that had rapidly diversified in an isolated environment, the snails later became victims of a "spectacularly inept attempt at biological control," says mollusk expert Diarmaid Ó Foighil.
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• | Verses by Laurence Goldstein
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| | "Who Am I?" and "Firmament on High" by Laurence A. Goldstein, professor of English and editor of the Michigan Quarterly Review, will appear in a forthcoming volume of his poems, Room
in California, which Northwestern University Press will publish in spring 2005. |
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EPA
again honors Blue as top 'Green' University |
| | The Environmental Protection Agency has named the University's Ann Arbor campus as an Energy Star Partner of the Year for its "outstanding" reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. U-M is the only institution of higher education to receive this year's award.
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• | Evidence exonerates 328, but many are still falsely imprisoned |
| | Exonerations of defendants convicted of serious crimes more than tripled over the past 15 years as DNA and other new evidence overturned the convictions, a U-M Law School study shows. "The exonerations we see are just the tip of an iceberg," says Prof. Samuel Gross, who directed the study. "It is clear that there are many more false convictions that are never discovered."
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• | Denizens of anthills prefer diversity to monotony |
| | Ecologists long have maintained that variety in one part of an ecosystem, say plants, leads to variety at other levels, such as insects that feed on or make nests in those plants. It's a logical assumption, but one that has been difficult to test. U-M researchers have confirmed the assumption in an experiment with twig-nesting ants. But they were surprised to find that the ants like diversity for its own sake.
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Photo Contest winners announced by Office of International Programs |
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"Monks
in the Making," taken at a tiny monastery near Songpan, China
by Christine Chan '04, received the grand prize in a competition among
students who studied abroad last year. Chan is an Asian studies and
political science major from Plymouth, Mich. The winning shots are
on display at the International Institute on the first floor of the
School of Social Work Bldg., 1080 S. University.
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• | Music: An excerpt from 'Keeping Me Company' by Albin Zak
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 Albin
Zak, associate professor of music, has released a folksy, soft-rock
CD, An
Average Day, on the Insatiable Records label (ZA-1008).
His book Cutting Tracks, Making Records: The Poetics
of Rock is forthcoming from University of California
Press.
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