| • | | | | Film critic Frank Beaver berates the letter rating system (PG, NC-17, R, etc.) that awarded a PG to 1970's Ryan's Daughter, whose graphic romantic scenes infuriated parents who had taken their kids to the show.
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• | | | | Researcher Katia Koelle is studying the consequences to public health if global warming exposes temperate zones to conditions that make cholera a scourge in tropical zones like West Africa.
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Poet, novelist and faculty member Laura Kasischke
'84, '87 MFA (accompanied here by son Jack), reads from her
recent volume of poetry, Gardening in the Dark. 'The
Second Week of May' (mp3)
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Americans who currently have health insurance appear willing to sacrifice in order to insure the 44 million people who don't, a U-M study says.
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• | | | | Half of all organizational change efforts fail because of ineffective change leadership, says the B School's Robert Quinn in Building the Bridge as You Walk on It.
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'San Antonio Rose' is one of the diverse oldies but
goodies performed by alum Michael Smith and His Cadillac Cowboys, an
Ann Arbor band known for its unique 'Swing 'n' Roll'
style.
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Med School scientists suggest the intriguing possibility
that a common virus may play a role in prostate cancer—the second-leading
cause of deaths from cancer in American men.
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