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March 2006

 

The U-M News Service offers a Web site reporting on the science behind weight gain and loss. Researchers are exploring the issue at all levels, from the genetics of fat cell development and the intricacies of insulin secretion to the societal implications of obesity.

 
 
'An eye for an eye’ can be good justice, law professor says

Revenge is justice when it honors its commitment to getting even in a proportional manner, U-M law professor William Ian Miller in his new book Eye for an Eye.

 
 
Inflammation: the good, the bad and the deadly

If you're hurt or fall seriously ill your body's internal emergency response team is immediately 'inflamed' into action. Dr. Peter Ward has spent his career studying that complicated system.

 
 
Students spend Spring Break helping Katrina victims

The School of Public Health took 45 student volunteers to the Gulf Coast over Spring Break to help in restoration efforts. In New Orleans, Giao Nguyen, Sumeet Goel, Lee Tobar and Chinwe Okehi help paint the St. Thomas Clinic. (Photo by Ericka Bolinger)

 
 
US must invest in collaboration, Pres. Coleman tells Washington

The United States needs more investment in innovation and collaboration if it is to retain its position as a great world leader, President Mary Sue Coleman told members of the national press corps last week in Washington, D.C.

 
 
Flint, Michigan, and the 'cowboy economy'

The 'cowboy economy' is a term coined at U-M in the 1960s to describe the American ethic employed when land was plentiful and the cry was 'westward ho.' Architecture Prof. Robert M. Beckley traces the devastating effect of cowboy economics on Flint and other urban and rural areas.

 
 
Listen to two poems by Sean Norton

Sean Norton's 'Sage Wisdom' and 'Blue Tip' are from his first volume of poetry, Bad With Faces (Red Morning Press, Washington DC, 2005). Norton is assistant director of U-M's Creative Writing Program.

 
 
Art show by award-winning U-M program for prisoners

The Prison Creative Arts Project will exhibit 400 works March 14-29 at the Duderstadt Center Gallery on U-M's North Campus. Project founder English Prof. William (Buzz) Alexander won a national honor for the program. Shown here, How Did We Get Into This Mess? by Eric Pasha.

 
 
Student tuba player gets job at Philadelphia  Orchestra

Senior Carolyn Jantsch, 20, outplayed 194 other aspirants to win the Philadelphia Orchestra's principal tuba chair. She is the first female tuba player with a major American symphony orchestra and youngest member of the ensemble.

 
 
 
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Talking about words

Some words may break your teeth if you're not careful

Pronouncing words incorrectly can be humiliating, like saying gaffe with two syllables or 'see-goo' for segue. Richard Bailey calls these 'break-teeth words.'

 

 

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Talking about the Movies

The Angry Young Men of Britain are 50 years older this year.

The Angry Young Men of Britain are 50 years older this year.

British cinema made a big splash in the wake of John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger of 1956. In addition to Look Back's 1959 film version starring Richard Burton and Claire Bloom, the wave included masterpieces like Room at the Top, A Taste of Honey and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.

 

 

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