A website and daily travel journal document the 2005 visit to China led by President Mary Sue Coleman. She and the delegation will meet with several university presidents and with State Counselor Chen Zhili and Minister of Education Zhou Ji.

Related story about the agreements and relationships being finalized with Chinese universities during the visit.

Personal devotion to Islam is unrelated to support for suicide bombing among Palestinian Muslims, according to a study at the Institute for Social Research. But the more often Muslims attended mosques, the more likely they were to support suicide terrorism. (Islamic text image, from U-M Museum of Art.)

Some bacteria contain enzymes like the one illustrated here that enable them to live off harmful chemicals that degrade toxins called free radicals. Researchers are studying how the bugs do that and hope that will lead to ways to engineer bacteria to clean up environmental messes.

In the 1950s, filmgoers entered theaters at any point in a film, then watched until the plot became familiar, whereupon someone would ask: ‘Is this where we came in?’ If all agreed, the party left. But today, people may prefer to save time and money by seeing films like Miss Congeniality II at home.

NewsE chats with Susan Tyler Hitchcock ’70, ’71 MA, author of Mad Mary Lamb: Lunacy and Murder in Literary London, a story about Mary Lamb, author with her brother, Charles, of the famous children’s classic Tales of Shakespeare.

Works by Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) are exhibited at UMMA through Sept. 11. Lawrence was one of the first artists trained in Harlem during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and '30s. "Five Builders with Tool Box" (1996) was a gift to UMMA from Dr. James and Vivian Curtis.

The rapid rise in CT heart scans has given more patients and physicians a detailed view not only of coronary arteries but also, surprisingly, of serious problems unrelated to the heart. This scan, for example, showed early stage, cancerous lung tumors.

From ‘January’ by Vitezslava Kapralova

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