Volume 107, No. 4
Features
Open Treasure
Penn’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library has a message for students, alumni, and book lovers everywhere. Online or on campus, come up and see us sometime! By JoAnn Greco
Digging Routes
Nick Spitzer C’72’s sonic gumbo is unlike anything else on radio. By Samuel Hughes
Inside the Cancer-Cell Smasher
In the last century, American medicine has gone from a cottage industry to a technology-driven juggernaut. The machine at the heart of the new Roberts Proton Therapy Center, dubbed “the world’s most expensive and complex medical device,” provides a glimpse of what the coming years may hold. By William Hanson
Departments
ESSAYS : First Person
Notes From the Undergrad A young dancer’s detour
Alumni Voices Finding a place in between
Elsewhere House hunting in Provence
Expert Opinion Blueprint for better government
GAZETTEER : News & Sports
Election 2008 from the inside
Staff cuts at Penn Museum
More proof on origin of Zeus worship
Wharton’s class on the crisis
Lies and their tellers
Findings
Orchestrating knowledge
Remembering John Pryor
Rethinking presidential rankings
Different tune in basketball
ALL THINGS ORNAMENTAL : The Arts
ART John Moore retrospective at Arthur Ross
BOOKS Gerald Early C’74 edits African-American “Bests”
BOOKS New York’s (literary) destruction. The City’s End
BRIEFLY NOTED
ARTS CALENDAR
ALUMNI : Profiles
Humanitarian and singer Denise Gordon C’82
College mental-health advocate Alison Malmon C’03
Maryland winemakers Ed Boyce C’85 and Sarah O’Herron C’94
Philadelphia Theater Company’s “sweetheart” E. Gerald Riesenbach W’60
ALUMNI : Events : Notes : Obituaries
