Washington Post
Features Eric Byler '94

"His was a childhood spent on racial and cultural fault lines: Chinese and Caucasian. Honolulu and Burke, Va. Little League champ and book grunt."
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All About Jazz
Features Anthony Braxton, professor of music

"On April 3rd, New Haven's Firehouse 12 Records will release the Anthony Braxton 12+1tet's 9 Compositions (Iridium) 2006 (FH12-04-01-002), a nine-CD (plus one-DVD) box set documenting what Time Out New York called 'last Spring's epochal run' at New York's Iridium Jazz Club in March 2006."
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Hartford Advocate
Mentions Jon Sigworth '10

"Depending on how you read the situation, the Connecticut Jammers are either having a bad year or a great one."
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The Independent Institute
Written by Francisco Rodriguez, assistant professor of economics and Latin American studies

Most discussions about the government of Hugo Chavez assume that his administration has significantly redirected the priorities of Venezuelan public policy towards the country's poor and disenfranchised.
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Newsweek
Features Majora Carter '88

"Growing up in the South Bronx, says Majora Carter, 'it didn't occur to me that what I had here was an environment.' Her neighborhood was surrounded by waste treatment plants, garbage dumps and power stations, and she glimpsed nature only when visiting the blueberry patch in her aunt's backyard in New Jersey."
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Middletown Press
Quotes Barry Chernoff, Robert Schumann Professor of Environmental Studies

"BioBlitz is coming to town."
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The Register-Guard
Quotes Douglas Foyle, associate professor of government

"WASHINGTON - The release of the report by the bipartisan Iraq Study Group this week exposed deep fissures among Republicans over how to manage a war that many fear will haunt their party - and the nation - for years to come."
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Science (AAAS)
Quotes Martha Gilmore, assistant professor of Earth and environmental studies

"The Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft had a great run, but after 10 years and more data returned than all earlier missions combined, it has passed on."
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Scientic American
Quotes Martha Gilmore, assistant professor of Earth and environmental studies

"Deposits formed in Martian gullies during the past seven years suggest that liquid water exists on Mars today."
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The New York Times
Features Jeff Maier '05

"ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 4 ? Jim Leyritz, a giant for the Yankees in the 1996 World Series, barreled through the lobby of the Walt Disney World Dolphin hotel Monday afternoon. A young man who adored the Yankees as a 12-year-old intercepted him."
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Washington Post
Features Scott Plous, professor of psychology

"As Robert M. Gates appears this week at his Senate confirmation hearings for defense secretary, Wesleyan University psychologist Scott Plous sees a hidden trap. To understand it, take a little test."
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San Francisco Chronicle
Quotes Sohaib Sultan, Wesleyan's Muslim chaplain

"A former Catholic, Canadian-born woman who is a widely respected scholar is arguably the most influential Muslim in America."
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The Middletown Press

"MIDDLETOWN - Kids who want the opportunity to go to college will now have the chance due to two local organizations. The Liberty Bank Foundation has awarded a $7,500 grant to the Wesleyan University Upward Bound Program. The money will be given to support general operating expenses."
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Washington Post
Quotes Scott Plous, professor of psychology

"First a history lesson: More than three decades ago, two psychologists conducted an experiment that was equal parts funny and deadly serious."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Quotes Jonathan Cutler, associate professor of sociology

"Hip. With-it. Relevant."
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Newsweek: International Editions
Quotes Gary Yohe, Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of Economics

"Draped like a verdant shawl over Costa Rica's Tilaran Mountains, the Monteverde cloud forest has long been a nature lover's idyll."
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Middletown Press
Features Wesleyan's 'Beyond Partisan' student group

"MIDDLETOWN - To gain perspective on a situation, sometimes it is best to step away. That is precisely what David Tutor did, unwittingly, when he studied abroad in London during his junior year at Wesleyan University."
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The Discovery Channel
Jelle de Boer, Harold T. Stearns Professor of Earth Science, Emeritus

"A lack of oxygen might have inspired the prophecies at the Temple of Apollo in the Greek town of Delphi, according to a new study."
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USA Today
Quotes Jeanine Basinger, Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies

"ORONTO ? 'We're talking about sex,' Kate Winslet yells at a gatekeeping publicist who has barged into the room. 'You can't come in.'"
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NPR
Guest on show, Richard Slotkin, Olin Professor of English

"There are so many American icons you won't find in the nation's rustic Amish schools."
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LiveScience
Quotes Jelle de Boer, Harold T. Stearns Professor of Earth Science, Emeritus

"Something in the ancient Greek temple of Delphi made its priestess high enough to believe she could predict the future. Scientists just can?t agree on what."
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Business Week
Features Jonathan Schwartz '87

"Tech industry mavens had their doubts about Jonathan I. Schwartz when he was promoted to chief executive of Sun Microsystems Inc. (SUNW ) in April, replacing longtime CEO Scott McNealy."
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ScienceNOW Daily News
Features Jelle do Boer, Harold T. Stearns Professor of Earth Science, Emeritus

"The Oracle at Delphi in central Greece was a major religious center for more than 1000 years."
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Time Magazine
Features Daniel Handler '92

"The End, the last book in the Lemony Snicket series, is out Oct. 13. Lev Grossman talks to its author."
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Scientific American
Quotes Dana Royer, assistant professor of Earth & environmental sciences

"Those trying to get a glimpse of what the future holds for the global climate may want to dig into the past."
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The New York Times
Quotes Douglas Foyle, assistant professor of government

"For Democrats in Congress and those hoping to join them, the troublesome war in Iraq presents both a significant political opportunity and an exquisite dilemma."
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The New York Times
Feature on Eric Mangini '94

"HEMPSTEAD, N.Y., Sept. 15 ? Eric Mangini, the Jets? first-year coach, was nicknamed the Penguin by a player during training camp because he waddles as he works and can freeze a football superhero with his glacial stare."
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Middletown Press
Features Green Street Arts Center

"MIDDLETOWN - The Green Street Arts Center is intended to be a place where people can create. Janis Astor del Valle is intent on doing just that."
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U.S. News & World Report
Features Robert Weisbuch '68, P '09

"Robert Weisbuch is entering only his sophomore year as president of Drew University, a small, private liberal arts college in Madison, N.J. But the former English professor has already made big waves."
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Arizona Daily Star
Features Deac Etherington GLSP '84

"When Deac Etherington became Green Fields Country Day School's new head of school this year, students gained not only a new administrator, but also a friend."
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The Durango Herald
Features Koren Nydick '93

"A team headed by a Southwest Colorado-based ecologist has become the latest participant in an international effort to detect the flight of plants to higher elevations as a result of global warming."
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The New York Times
Feature on Jelle de Boer, Harold T. Stearns Professor of Earth Science, emeritus

" 'Biology is destiny,' goes the adage, but Dr. Jelle de Boer would argue that it is geology that is destiny."
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The New York Times
Features Thomas S. Rogers '76

"I always had an interest in television. I was a great 'Leave It to Beaver' fan, although it was already mostly in reruns when I was a kid. Monday family dinner was early, so we could watch 'Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In' together."
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Middletown Press
Features Renee Romano, associate professor of African American studies and Melanye Price, assistant professor of government

"MIDDLETOWN - Teachers from throughout the state met at Wesleyan University this week to discuss the past, present and future of the issues of race and American citizenship."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Features Ellen Forney '89

"Deny it if you like, but down in the depths of each and every one of us dwells a freak."
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Middletown Press
Features Kay Butterfield

"MIDDLETOWN - City and local officials joined the Wesleyan administration and faculty on Thursday in honoring a good friend and noble woman on her centennial birthday."
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Martha's Vineyard Gazette
Features Halley Feiffer '07

"Jules Feiffer wears many hats. Today, it is a blue faded baseball cap. On other days it varies - Tony-nominated playwright, Oscar-winning screenwriter, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist."
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PhysOrg.com
Quotes Ann Campbell Burke, associate professor of biology

"Performance on the dance floor may not always show it, but people are rarely born with two left feet. We have genes that instruct our arms and legs to grow in the right places and point in the right directions. They also provide for the spaces between our fingers and toes and every other formative detail of our limbs."
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Boston Globe
Features WESU radio show

"In 30 years of being homeless, Fred Carroll has found some creative places to rest his head: the back room of a bowling alley or a 7-Eleven, the balcony of a luxury suite at a hotel where he was doing construction work."
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Middletown Press
Race won by Wes Fuhrman '05

"MIDDLETOWN - The "Citizens Bank Not Your Typical 5K" race lived up to its name on Thursday night. Runners competed to win trophies and bragging rights while spectators enjoyed the sights and sounds of the parade-like atmosphere. In all, over 500 runners took part in the main event, with over 100 kids taking part in a junior event earlier in the evening."
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ZNet
Essay authored by Jonathan Cutler, associate professor of American studies and sociology

"In an earlier ZNet essay -- Beyond Incompetence: Washington's War in Iraq -- I described David Wurmser's 1999 book Tyranny's Ally as a kind of Right Zionist playbook."
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On Point - WBRU
Features Wesleyan's 'Beyond Partisan' student group

"Imagine coming of age as a young American in the country's booming era of poisonous, hyper-polarized politics."
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San Francisco Chronicle
Quotes Ari King '09

"What do you really need to bring to college? One kid's necessities are another kid's no-go. A parent's list may differ significantly from that of the freshman."
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The Boston Globe
Jazz Notes: includes Anthony Braxton, professor of music

"When cornetist and composer Taylor Ho Bynum brings guitarist Mary Halvorson and drummer Tomas Fujiwara to Brookline Tai Chi for a trio performance tonight, he'll be close to the more offbeat venue where he and Fujiwara got their start playing together more than a decade ago."
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USA Today
Features Eric Mangini '94, and mentions Bill Belichick '75

"New York Jets rookie head coach Eric Mangini was 16 when life changed forever."
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The Boston Globe
Features Wesleyan's 'Beyond Partisan' student group

"Adam Gomolin was in Spain in the fall of 2004, during his semester abroad from Wesleyan University, when he saw Jon Stewart's infamous appearance on CNN's 'Crossfire.' The 'Daily Show' host assailed the 'Crossfire' talking heads for 'hurting America' with their partisan bickering."
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Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Features Daniel Raimi '04; Anthony Braxton, professor of music

"The name comes from an art museum, the musicians from all across the United States and the music from a variety of genres."
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The Boston Globe
Features Will Holhouser '91; mentions Anthony Braxton, professor of music

"Will Holshouser grew up in Cambridge, but he didn't pick up the accordion until he'd left his childhood home near Porter Square and started at Wesleyan University."
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The Boston Globe
Quotes Michael Sciola, director, career resource center

"How do you package a college grad?"
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Middletown Press
Features Green Street Arts Center

"MIDDLETOWN - Janis Astor del Valle can remove the word "interim" from her official job title.
This week, Astor del Valle was appointed the official director of the Green Street Arts Center by representatives at Wesleyan University. "
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Middletown Press

"MIDDLETOWN -- The Wesleyan University commencement speeches Sunday encouraged students to better their communities and to be philosopher-kings."
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WNPR
Interview with Kit Reed, adjunct professor of English

"Kit Reed of Wesleyan University, has written another high anxiety novel about how far couples will go to have a baby."
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Middletown Press
Features Dar Williams '89

"MIDDLETOWN -- Dar Williams hasn?t been to Middletown in more than five years, but her sights are trained on the city where she went to college."
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The Progressive
Features Dar Williams '89

"Folk singer Dar Williams came out with her ninth album last fall, My Better Self, that addresses some of the major issues of the Bush Age."
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Hollywood Reporter
Quotes Chris Wink '84 one of the founders of Blue Man Group

"In the beginning -- 1988 to be precise -- nine men and women donned bald wigs, painted their heads blue and did something to the annoying decade of the '80s that other people only dreamed about: They buried it."
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USA Today
Quotes Jeanine Basinger, Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies

"Waddling Antarctic birds.
A swivel-hipped Swayze.
Size-XXL ethnic nuptials."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Q&A with Sebastian Junger '84

"Sebastian Junger burst onto the literary scene in 1997 with his hugely popular debut, "The Perfect Storm," which led to a hit film version starring George Clooney."
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Middletown Press

"Middletown--Perhaps no other areas of the city have benefited as much from a strong Wesleyan influence than the public school system and the arts programs. More than ever, Wesleyan students are sharing their minds with local kids through a variety of tutoring programs and teaching opportunities."
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Middletown Press

"MIDDLETOWN -- For 175 years, there has been no local partnership that can compare to the one between Wesleyan University and the city. Estab-lished in 1831, Wes-leyan is often one of the first things that come to mind when one thinks about Middletown, and simply put, the university has become woven into the fabric of the community."
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Middletown Press
Quotes Elizabeth McAlister, associate professor of religion

"MIDDLETOWN -- A benefit Saturday for the American Association of University Women greater Middletown branch showcased three local authors."
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Middletown Press
Quotes Michael Sciola, director of the Career Resource Center

"Photographs, blogs could cost job seekers employment opportunities. A first-rate resume, numerous professional references and all the requisite work experience necessary. All these fine qualities can be ruined by what employers can find on the Internet about a potential employee."
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Middletown Press

"MIDDLETOWN-- After more than a decade as the leader of Wesleyan University, President Douglas Bennet announced his retirement to faculty and students on Thursday."
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Middletown Press

"MIDDLETOWN -- Anne Thompson, a 2002 Wesleyan University graduate, has assembled a small but impressive group of fine artists, including several notable Middletown residents, in an exhibition opening tonight at Hartford?s ArtSpace. The group of 10 includes residents Robin Price, Derek Dudek, recent Wesleyan grads Andrew Barco, Martha Fleming-Ives, Thompson and artists Lys Guillorn, Tao LaBossiere, Jamie Carra, Julia Ambrose and Michelle Katen."
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The New York Times
Quoted Laura Grabel, professor of natural sciences, and Janice Naegele, associate professor of biology

"Despite the possibility that her work could lead to profound change in the lives of thousands of people ravaged by cystic fibrosis, Emanuela Bruscia's daily existence is something other than a thrill a minute."
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NPR
Q&A with Jonathan Cutler, associate professor of sociology and American studies

"What is the legacy of Haymarket? Does it still resonate today?

Haymarket resonates today more than it has at any other time in recent years. The original Haymarket affair of 1886 was part and parcel of a massive, national May Day rally and strike led, by and large, by America's immigrant workers."
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The New York Times
Features Jonathan Schwartz '87

"SAN FRANCISCO, April 25 ? Jonathan I. Schwartz, the new chief executive of Sun Microsystems, likes to take visitors on whiteboard tours of what at first glance appear to be highly unorthodox business ideas."
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Middletown Press
Features Christina Crosby, professor of English

"MIDDLEFIELD-- Think of it as a massage for a worthy cause.

On October 1, 2003, Christina Crosby, a professor of English at Wesleyan University and cycling enthusiast, was enjoying a bike ride through Middlefield when a stick got caught in her spokes. She fractured her fifth and sixth vertabrae in the accident, leaving her paralyzed from the waste down with limited feeling in her arms and hands."
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The New York Times
Quotes Carolyn Sorkin, the director of the Office of International Studies, and Avi Smith '09

"AVOID all travel to the Gaza Strip, a travel warning from the federal Department of State says. Avoid the West Bank, it says, and really, go to Israel only if necessary."
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Middletown Press

"MIDDLETOWN -- In a Thursday morning ceremony, city officials 'cut the cord' on traditional electricity and ushered in the future of clean, reusable energy."
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The Boston Globe
Features Jeff Maier '06

"MIDDLETOWN, Conn. -- He'll forever be remembered as the 12-year-old boy who was sitting in the right-field seats in Yankee Stadium on an October afternoon in 1996, when he reached over the railing and helped Derek Jeter's fly ball become a home run in Game 1 of the American League Championship Series against Baltimore."
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The Boston Globe
Features Jeff Maier '06

"MIDDLETOWN, Conn. -- He'll forever be remembered as the 12-year-old boy who was sitting in the right-field seats in Yankee Stadium on an October afternoon in 1996, when he reached over the railing and helped Derek Jeter's fly ball become a home run in Game 1 of the American League Championship Series against Baltimore."
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The Boston Globe
Quotes Jan Willis, Walter Crowell Professor of English

"Roslyn Springer first heard about Buddhism 18 years ago. A friend she practiced yoga with had told her about an upcoming retreat at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, where people could meditate in silence. A 'woman on fire' at the time, she says, she jumped at the opportunity for some self-reflection."
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Middletown Press
Features Alexander Brooks '06

"MIDDLETOWN -- Alexander Brooks is one of five seniors on the Wesleyan baseball team. After rebuilding during the last couple of years, the Cardinals are now hoping to sit at the top of the NESCAC standings."
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The Middletown Press
Features Amanda Belichick

"MIDDLETOWN -- There is more to Amanda Belichick than a famous last name."
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The New York Times
Wesleyan mentioned

"MAYOR JOHN DESTEFANO Jr. of New Haven and Mayor Scott Slifka of West Hartford are at war."
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The New York Times
Features Jeff Maier '06
"MIDDLETOWN, Conn., April 12 ? The pitch was a fastball on the outside part of the plate, exactly what Jeffrey Maier was looking for on Wednesday afternoon as Wesleyan University took on Bates College in a relaxed baseball setting that bore no resemblance to Yankee Stadium."
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The Harvard Crimson
Features Tanya S. Rosenblat, assistant professor of economics

"A pretty face can go a long way in securing a higher paying job, and Associate Professor of Economics Markus M. Mobius may have pinpointed one reason why. A study he published in March found that this ?beauty premium? exists in part because the more attractive are more confident. "
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The Christian Science Monitor
Quotes Martha Gilmore, assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences

"The planet Venus moves to astronomy's center stage this week with the arrival of the European Space Agency's spacecraft.
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The New York Times
Features Tanya Rosenblat, assistant professor of economics

"ECONOMISTS have long recognized that physical beauty affects wages, even in occupations where appearance does not seem relevant to job performance."
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The Boston Globe
Features Sebastian Junger '84

"CAMBRIDGE -- It's difficult to communicate, to those who have only read about it, the atmosphere of fear that gripped Boston during the rampage of the Boston Strangler. From 1962 to 1964, 13 women were strangled in their homes, possibly by the same killer. There was never a sign of forced entry."
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The New York Times
Features Robert Smith, '68

"Elizabeth Brereton was a freshman at Connecticut College and Robert Smith was a sophomore at Wesleyan in 1965 when they became a part of what might have been this country's first computer dating service."
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quotes Dr. Davis Smith, medical director, Wesleyan's Davison Health Center

"A tough math class prompted Rich to take the drug. The effect: "I could study for, like, eight hours straight," said the University of Wisconsin-Madison junior."
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ABCNews.com
Features Ruth Striegel-Moore, professor of psychology

"Girls drink more and more soft drinks as they get older, and their risk of becoming overweight may follow suit, new research suggests."
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Middletown Press
Features Amanda Belichick '07

"One of the big reasons the Wesleyan women's lacrosse team is off to a strong start is the clutch shooting of junior Amanda Belichick."
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The New York Times
Jazz Review/Anthony Braxton, professor of music

"It was an Anthony Braxton show, all right: a 13-piece band called the Twelvetet Plus One; a mess of instruments including bassoon, contrabass clarinet, trombone, vibraphone and drums; an abundance of sheet music. But Mr. Braxton's gig this week was not at a small, nonprofit arts center. It was at Iridium, a jazz club on Broadway at 51st Street."
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Middletown Press

"MIDDLETOWN -- On Saturday, Middletown Public Schools and Wesleyan University's Zilkha Gallery celebrated a silver anniversary with the past, present and future of student art."
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Middletown Press
"MIDDLETOWN -- Spring is in the air. Soon, fly balls will be also. The Wesleyan baseball team is hitting the field and getting ready to start another successful season."
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Middletown Press
Features Olin Library exhibit

"MIDDLETOWN -- We drop them. We tear them. We break their spines. We earmark their corners. We write in their margins. We leave them in the sun, the rain, the snow, or too close to the pool. We burn them on the radiator and stain them with tea and coffee. We bring them to the dinner table and into the bathtub. We take them into our beds at night and fall asleep on top of them -- dreaming on them; drooling on them. We mark their pages with the oil and grime of our fingertips and get creative with bookmarks -- newspaper clippings, rubber bands, sticky notes, folded squares of toilet paper."
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The Peninsula - (Qatar)
Features William Herbst, John Monroe Van Vleck Professor of Astronomy
Piece originally ran in the Hartford Courant

"At 24 inches diametre, the Perkin telescope at Wesleyan University is small by major observatory standards. And the celestial viewing conditions from central Connecticut, well within the light pollution muck of the eastern megalopolis, are far from ideal."
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Ottawa Sun
Features Ruth Striegel-Moore, professor and chairwoman of psychology at Wesleyan University

"TORONTO -- Hide the pop.

A new study shows pop consumption tends to increase dramatically in adolescent girls as they get older, leading to weight gain."
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Middletown Press

"MIDDLETOWN -- The ashen ground that once held the Long Lane School for juvenile girls will soon be crisscrossed with field hockey balls launched by Wesleyan University women."
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News Channel 8 - WTNH
Quotes Renee Romano, chair, African-American studies

"It was nearly forgotten but it has been resurrected.

We're talking about a speech the late Martin Luther King gave in Hartford almost a half century ago."
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The Boston Globe
Features Danny Forster '99

"Here's a story that could cheer the procrastinator in all of us. Last May, Danny Forster, an architecture graduate student at Harvard, was lagging far behind on an important research paper, dying for an escape, checking his inbox every two minutes or so. That's when the e-mail from his girlfriend arrived, forwarding an ad she'd seen on Craigslist."
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The New York Times
Op-Ed written by Kelly Greenhill, assistant professor of government

"DESPITE claims to the contrary by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the Army is facing a manpower crisis. The evidence can be found in two separate reports released last month ? one commissioned by the Pentagon, the other by Congressional Democrats ? and in this simple fact: last year the Army accepted its least qualified pool in a decade."
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Discovery Channel
Features Dana Royer, assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences
"Leaves either have smooth or pointy, "toothed" edges, and now researchers think they know why ? the teeth take some of the bite out of cold weather for trees, shrubs and other plants."
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Middletown Press
Features Benjamin Michael, general manager of WESU

"MIDDLETOWN -- Sweeping changes have brought fans of National Public Radio programming spinning their dials to the new line-up at Wesleyan University?s WESU 88.1-FM radio."
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San Diego Union-Tribune
Quotes Jelle de Boer, Harold T. Stearns Professor of Earth Science, Emeritus

"Long ago, according to Indian legends of the inland Pacific Northwest, the twin sons of the Chief Spirit, Wyeast and Pahto, dwelt on opposite sides of the river now known as the Columbia. Mostly, they lived in peace, but occasionally they fought for the attention of a beautiful maiden known as Tah-one-lat-clah."
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USA Today
Quotes Nancy Meislahn, dean of admission and financial aid

"Every college admissions cycle has its own set of dynamics, and this year is no exception. Many selective private colleges are reporting a boom in applications and, as a result, expect to admit a lower proportion of high school seniors than last year."
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The New York Times
Review of 'Ferocious Beauty: Genome'

"MIDDLETOWN, Conn., Feb. 3 ? It is hard to imagine anyone but Liz Lerman taking on developmental biology as the subject for a dance, as she has in her new "Ferocious Beauty: Genome," a world premiere Friday night here at Wesleyan University's Center for the Arts. Ms. Lerman has been addressing unlikely, increasingly complex themes for 30 years. But she is still at her best when focusing on microcosmic individual stories. "
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The New York Times
Features Rachel Meeropol '97

"A profile of Rachel Meeropol, the lead lawyer for a group of Muslim immigrants suing the United States government, explains why she went to work for the Center for Constitutional Rights."
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ABC News
Quotes Gary Yohe, John E. Andrus Professor of Economics

"President Bush may have broken some ground when he admitted in his State of the Union speech that the country is "addicted to oil," but he did not mention the other massive issue that's tied to oil ? global warming."
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The Boston Globe
Quotes Jeanine Basinger, Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies

"GLOUCESTER -- Sarah Green has become adept at a lot of complicated things in her 15 years as a movie producer: scheduling shoots, getting films insured and bonded, not becoming ''a mush ball" when people yell at her. This month, though, she's had to draw on another skill: putting on her game face to handle a number of trying circumstances."
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The New York Times
Features Eric Mangini '94

"Eric Mangini, the New England Patriots' defensive coordinator, will be named the Jets' coach today, according to several people briefed on the agreement who were granted anonymity because they were not authorized to speak before an announcement."
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The New York Times
Mentions Eric Mangini '94

"The new era of the Jets began 10 minutes behind schedule Monday with a joke."
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The New York Times
Quotes Jeanine Basinger, Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies

"On screen, a game of tennis is never just a game. Some films actually revolve around it ("Wimbledon," anyone?), but in many more, fittingly for a sport that starts at love and becomes a battle, tennis endures as a richly symbolic undertaking."
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