Clarence Darrow Gets High Nielsen Rating
Leslie Nielsen on actors and lawyers
Color Blinders
Derrick Bell asks: who benefits from black success?
Gene-Therapy Researchers Probe Patient’s Death
First findings in gene-therapy death
Fighting Shadows with FIRE
FIRE’s fight for the right
Strong Medicine: Health System Cuts 1,700 After Record Deficit
UPHS cuts workforce by 20 percent to reverse losses
Taking the Long View
A masterly biography of a master of many disciplines.
From Spoiler to Champion?
Women’s basketball ranked first in Ivies.
Award of Merit Recipients
Homecoming 1999
Nobelist Found a Way to Peer into the World of Molecules
Ahmed Zewail Gr’74 Hon’97
Spinning Sugar Into Lucre
Douglas Chu W’90 and Scott Samet W’90
Protecting Artists from Piracy— and Poor Taste
Theodore Feder C’58
Worth Saluting
Martha Settle Putney Gr’55
“Still the Greatest Country”
Nao Takasugi WG’46
Lemons, Sugar, Water … and a Marketing Plan?
Emmanuel Modu WG’85
Alumni Notes
Jan|Feb 2000
Obituaries
Jan|Feb 2000
Jan|Feb 2000
Vol. 98, No. 3
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.
Letters
Nov|Dec 1999: Kahn pro-and-con and other architectural arguments,
notes on a Note-reader.
International Internship
From debonair diplomats to the conflict in Kosovo.
Researchers Seek Answers After Gene-Therapy Patient Dies
Patient in gene-therapy trial dies