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Knowing El Niño

02 Jun 1998
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There was no getting away from El Niño this year -- in newspapers and magazines, on TV, or anytime you walked out the door. But if you think you know all about it, you're wrong, says Dr. Michael Glantz, who's been studying the much-maligned weather phenomenon for the past quarter-century.

Dramatic Entrance

02 Jun 1998
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David Stone has been stagestruck since he choked up at the end of Man of La Mancha at age four. At 31, he's a veteran Broadway producer -- most recently, of the controversial revival of The Diary of Anne Frank.

Rediscovering Troy

02 Jun 1998
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Academic turned museum-director Tom Carroll is hoping that a greater awareness of its rich past will help Troy, New York -- an industrial powerhouse of the last century that has fallen on hard times in this one -- rise again in the next.

Proof & Beauty

01 May 1998
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What do you get when you add a couple of math professors, a Roman Catholic nun, and a computer? Not the start of a bad joke, but a major breakthrough in mathematics -- and a pretty one, too.

Start Me Up

01 May 1998
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The letters P.O.V. were once synonymous with I.O.U. Today the fledgling men's magazine, co-founded by a Penn alumnus working off his laptop, has multimillion-dollar backing, an office equipped with its own bar, and a new nightlife supplement called Egg.

Coal Miners’ Doctor

01 May 1998
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Forty years ago, a freshly-minted M.D. learned about life and death -- and how to drink home-brewed beer and (almost) eat squirrel's brains -- while practicing medicine in the hills of eastern Kentucky.
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