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February 2006

Son tells of President Ford
 

When President Ford pardoned Nixon, 'the honeymoon was over' between him and the press, said Ford's son Steven, who delivered a speech on campus.

 
 
Multiple tactics needed to combat Asian flu

A global approach is needed to confront a possible avian influenza pandemic or 'it would dwarf all these weapons of mass destruction we've been so obsessed with,' science writer Laurie Garrett said at a School of Public Health symposium.

 
 
Law curbing stock manipulation still too weak, researchers say

The Sarbanes-Oxley law requiring corporate executives to promptly disclose their investments has been less effective in putting a halt to stock-option manipulation than regulators hoped, say U-M Ross Business School researchers.

 
 
Activist explains campaign against Native American mascots

Charlene Teters of the Spokane Nation told an MLK Symposium that her 20-year struggle against the use of American Indian mascots is 'an issue of dignity.'

 
Listen to two poems by Ashley David
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Listen to two poems by Ashley David

A native of Albany, Georgia, graduate student Ashley David will receive her Master of Fine Arts this spring. She won a 2005 Hopwood Award for poetry and hosts the Web-accessible Living Writers Show on student radio station WCBN-FM.

 
 
U-M program boosts Detroit science test scores

Detroit students enrolled in the U-M School of Ed and Museum of Zoology BioKids program raised their pass rate on state standardized science tests from 30% to 42%

 
 
End-of-life wishes vary among US ethnic groups, study finds

Medical researcher Sonia Duffy advises health care providers to learn about the different values their patients may have toward the ways they hope to approach and experience death.

 
 
 Group setting is best for parents discussing child behavior problems

Children with serious emotional disturbances behave better at home and school when their parents participate in support groups led by mental health professionals, a School of Social Work professor reports.

 
 
Conference on opera to celebrate School of Music's 125th year

La Purpura de la Rosa (performed in Peru in 1701) and Prof. Michael Daugherty's Jackie O are two highlights of the Opera in the Americas conference March 23–26 iin celebration of the Michigan School of Music’s 125th year.

 
Bolcom's Songs of Innocence wins four Grammy Awards
 
William Bolcom

University of Michigan professor and composer William Bolcom's epic Songs of Innocence and of Experience has been awarded four Grammy Awards, for Best Classical Album, Best Choral Performance, Best Classical Contemporary Composition and Producer of the Year, Classical.

 
 
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Talking about words

Bassackward words and other sources of verbal magic

Bassackward words and other sources of verbal magic

Shaping and reshaping words is a way to invest them with power. Wearing an abracadabra necklace was once thought to be medicinal. Saying 'Dog nab it!' is a way to avoid a taboo.

 

 

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