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"A
tremendous victory" |
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“This is a tremendous victory for the University of Michigan,
for all of higher education, and for the hundreds of groups and
individuals who supported us," said President Mary Sue Coleman
of the U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the use of diversity
in college admissions as a compelling "state interest."
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When
speaking the truth about sex & money, people prefer telling it to
the machines |
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People are more likely to lie about sex and money to a real
person in a telephone survey than to a computerized voice, University
of Michigan survey researchers found.
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Nice
to know you CAN beat the market--but you have to figure out how |
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"Individual traders are often regarded as, at best, uninformed,
at worst, fools," says the Michigan Business School's Tyler
Shumway. "However, not all individual traders do poorly in
their investments."
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Federal
approval of FluMist crowns a life's research |
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Hunein “John” Maassab, emeritus professor of epidemiology
at the U-M School of Public Health, has devoted his life to developing
a nasal spray vaccine against flu. |
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U-M
Composer Bolcom's year in the spotlight |
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Keeping up with the beat of his own success--with four world premieres
in the last year--has proven to be a demanding task for William
Bolcom.
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Medicinal
chemists aim pharmaceuticals at just the right spot |
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Computer modeling of proteins at the College of Pharmacy is helping
pinpoint the delivery of anti-cancer drugs. |
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U-M
scholars act to preserve Iraqi cultural heritage |
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In response to the destruction and theft of cultural artifacts in
Iraq, three U-M scholars helped found a national committee of experts
to recover, preserve and restore the treasures. |
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POETRY:
The Nest |
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Hear the poet Richard Tillinghast
of the creative writing faculty read THE NEST mp3 (requires audio
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The building of it took place right under our
noses,
in the hedge that bordered our lives just off our porch.
So at first we missed it, busy about our own
arrivals and departures, till the nest was good to go:
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