Different Worlds
From the Editor: Nov|Dec 1999
Crowns and Confidences
Thomas Evans was the trusted friend of royalty and a secret diplomat with an eye for beauty. Such are the rewards of dentistry.
Setting the Record Straight
An Interview with Elijah Anderson
High Noon in the ‘hood
Penn sociologist Elijah Anderson writes about life at "ground zero," in the inner city's most blighted areas. In this excerpt from his new book, a reformed drug-dealer turned small-businessman attempts to take back a neighborhood corner from his successor in the drug trade.
From Zip to X
How would-be experimental physicist became a cyber-mogul instead.
Justice in the Bones
When a 15-year-old Philadelphia boy was wrongly accused of rape in a case of mistaken identity, public defender Glenn Gilman C’69 and two Penn anthropologists, Dr. Alan Mann and Dr. Janet Monge Gr’80, combined their expertise to ensure that justice was served.