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May 2005
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Protect yourself from sports-related eye injury |
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Warm weather brings eye injuries, says U-M's Kellogg Eye Center. But 90% of the 40,000 people who suffer sports-related eye injuries annually could avoid them by using protective eyewear properly.
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U-M gets archive of Holocaust survivors' stories |
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U-M Library's recent acquisition of videotaped testimonies of nearly 52,000 Holocaust witnesses is a rich resource for researchers like Henry Greenspan of the Residential College.
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It's name is RABBIT but this robot walks like a person |
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Many robots have legs, but this is the first known to have balance as well. The machine resembles a high-tech Tin Man from The Wizard of Oz. See it walk!
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Three hundred pounds of history? Priceless |
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Hard-won, dearly priced and more than 200 years in coming to U-M's Clements Library, the papers of British Gen. Eyre Coote (1760 - 1823) recount a 35-year military career that included the American Revolution.
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It's not 'who's on first?' in baseball, but 'who's getting hit?' |
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Since pitchers don't come to bat in leagues that let a designated hitter go to the plate for them, many fans thought pitchers would hit more batters, because pitchers don't risk being hit in retaliation. If that's what you've assumed, check the stats of Asst. Prof. Lee Freeman (at bat).
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Listen to two poems by Keith Taylor
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Poet Keith Taylor, a director of the Creative Writing Program, reads two works from his forthcoming volume of poetry Guilty at the Rapture (Hanging Loose Press, 2006).
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Talking about the movies: tricky geography |
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The romantic comedy The Upside of Anger takes place in a posh Detroit suburb. But despite references and images befitting that locale, there's more to film geography than meets the eye, says movie expert Frank Beaver.
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An excerpt from Michael Daugherty's Tell-Tale Harp
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Composer Michael Daugherty of the School of Music composed Philadelphia Stories for Orchestra as a tribute to 'the sounds and rhythms of Philadelphia.' This excerpt is from the second movement, a lyric allusion to Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart, which was written in Philly.
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