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February 2005
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By using nanoparticles (a billionth of a meter in size)
U-M researchers have improved ways to deliver drugs right into
cancer cells, either to kill a diseased cell or to mark it for attack. Image:
Michigan Center for Biologic Nanotechnology
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The millions who are rendered homeless by war, natural disaster or poverty need cheap and portable temporary shelter. One day, they may use an emergency hut developed by a U-M industrial designer.
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Thanks to artful film editing, a famously familiar and inexpressive face like Clint Eastwood's can convey complex emotions in an unforgettable way, says our film columnist Frank Beaver.
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Janet Hoff, a researcher at the Center for Integrative Genomics, has found a way to train lab mice as effectively as she does her horses.
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The US premiere of "Detroit: Ruin of a City" by Prof. George Steinmetz and British filmmaker Michael Chaban will screen at 8:30 pm, March 18, as part of the March 17-19 conference, "The Ruins of Modernity." All events are free and in Rackham Bldg.
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Child care is a labor of love, but a U-M study shows that working mothers tend to negotiate no better on sharing that duty with spouses than do stay-home, full-time mothers.
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After
two years of steady increases, customer satisfaction in the United States has
taken a dramatic and troubling downturn, the latest American Customer Satisfaction
Index (ACSI) shows. The index is based on surveys conducted at U-M’s
Ross School of Business.
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In an art course "Food: from Farming to Feasts," undergraduates worked with farmers, bakers, jelly makers and tamale chefs, then turned what they learned into art, like the ceramic shown here.
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"Your Ice Art, Michigan" and "The Wandering Jew and the Arab Merchant on the Island of Allspice" are from Prof. Lorna Goodison's latest volume of poetry, Controlling the Silver.
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Alumnus
Arthur Miller dead at 89
Playwright Arthur Miller '38,
'56 (Hon. Doctor of Humane Letters), died at home
Feb. 10, leaving a legacy as a giant of world literature.
U-M will place his name on a new campus theater
that is in the planning stages.
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