Unsolved Mysteries
From the Editor
The Stock Market Sage
When he was a kid, Wharton finance professor Jeremy Siegel liked to chart the growth of morning glories in his back yard; now he directs his keen attention to the rise and fall of the stock market.
The Flu of 1918
It started with a cough in the summer of 1918. In the next 120 days, nearly 22 million people around the world would die in one of the worst epidemics in modern times. And Philadelphia was to be the American city with the highest death toll.
Through a Glass Darkly
Stephen Glass's glittering career in journalism took off at The Daily Pennsylvanian and crash-landed when he was discovered to have fabricated dozens of articles for national magazines. Did this talent for invention color his work at Penn?
The Bible’s People
A new permanent exhibit at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology draws on artifacts from excavations spanning much of the century to reveal the daily lives of the Bronze and Iron age inhabitants of Canaan and ancient Israel.
Constitutionalist in Cyberspace
In the decade and a half since he graduated from Penn, legal scholar and internet enthusiast Lawrence Lessig has emerged as a leading thinker in the application of Constitutional concepts to the realm of cyberspace—and gotten Bill Gates (among others) mad at him.
Letters
Nov|Dec 1998: No news not good news, the small print.
Nov|Dec 1998
Volume 97, No. 2
Our Web Sites, Ourselves
The home page as self-portrait.
The Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
From College Hall | A library transformed for a new century.
Penn Football: 1968 & 1998
Back to football camp, 30 years later.
Sundance Rises in the West
Movie theater announced for 40th Street
New Director of Alumni Relations Named
New director of alumni relations named
Deans and Director to Resign
Wharton and Law deans to step down
Freshman Convocation: The Continuity of Change
Outdoor welcome for Class of 2002
Moving Up
Penn places sixth in U.S. News survey
Make that Ten Lives
Feline kidney transplant program
Genetic Mutation Linked to Prostate Cancer
Mutation found in prostate-cancer gene
Employers Go to Schools to Keep Young
Benefit to employers who work with schools.
At Home with History
Celebrating the city's residential riches. Historic Houses of Philadelphia; A new translation. The Book of Job. Plus: Briefly Noted
Alumni Notes
Nov|Dec 1998
Overturning Taboos to Address an Epidemic
Shilpa Rao, C'98
The Patron Saint of Ping-Pong
Bill Meiklejohn, W'42
Reviving the Original Human Gathering Place
David O'Neil, C'77