Worlds of Difference
From the Editor: Sep|Oct 2011
Horror and Hope
For some of the 14 Penn students who spent two weeks helping at the Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village for Rwandans orphaned in the country’s genocidal conflict, the experience brought back memories of personal tragedy. For all of them, it was a stark reminder of the horrors humans have inflicted on each other. But it was also an inspiring time, “all about hope, all about the future.”
The Other Health Care Revolutions
The Affordable Care Act may have gotten all the attention, but American medicine will be transformed even more profoundly by forces that neither the government, insurance companies, nor even doctors themselves can fully tame. It’s already happening, and three trends provide a preview of the shape of things to come.
The Perils of Parenting Style
Penn sociologist Annette Lareau says that the way middle class parents interact with their children promotes an “emerging sense of entitlement” that better equips them for success in the world.
Letters
Sep|Oct 2011
Off the Rails
Discovering the lives my grandfather didn’t live.
The Cake Boss
Are you joking? You want me to deliver your wedding cake?
The Scene of my Defection
Revisiting the great Indian city where, 30 years ago, I came out of the Soviet cocoon.
Insurance Without Access
For children, public health insurance is no panacea.
Short-Order Entrepreneur
Nate Adler C’11 has an appetite for entrepreneurship
$7.5 Million for Korean Studies
Korean Studies receives $7.5 million in gifts
Not Your Father’s Fixie
Reinventing the (two)wheel(er)
The Long View of Shifting Sea Levels
Penn researchers confirm rising sea levels
The Black Swan Also Rises
Heard on Campus: Cash is king
A Penn Historian Looks Back at a Long Career
Historian Richard Beeman on his four decades at Penn
Moyers on Journalism: Scattering Darkness
Moyers on Johnson, journalism, and Jon Stewart