Stories

Ain’t No Stopping Us Now

June 21, 2014
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Retirement? Forget about it. Some Wharton graduates keep on reinventing themselves.

Getting to the Root of Family Trees

March 20, 2014
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The Huntsman, Lauder, Moelis and Turner families have deep roots in corporate America and on the Penn campus.

Following in the Wake of Oars and Paintbrush

October 18, 2013
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When rowers descend here next weekend for the Thomas Eakins Head of the Schuylkill Regatta, they’ll be racing in a riverscape brought to life in Eakins’s celebrated rowing paintings.

Galápagos: Islands in
the Balance

January 18, 2008
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Tourism. The Galápagos have dined off it for forty years. Now the people of these islands realize that they have to create a new kind of sustainability or risk killing off the very things the tourists come to see.

Drink, Smoke and Gamble, and This Fund Climbs

July 9, 2006
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More than 150 mutual funds call themselves socially responsible, investing only in companies that meet a series of ethical standards set by their fund managers.

F.B.I. and Justice Dept. Are Faulted Over Child Predators on Web

April 7, 2006
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Lawmakers from both parties continued on Thursday to question the commitment of the Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to halting the online exploitation of children.

Child Sex as Internet Fare, Through Eyes of a Victim

April 5, 2006
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The sexual exploitation of children on the Internet is a $20 billion industry that continues to expand in the United States and abroad, overwhelming attempts by the authorities to curb its growth, witnesses said at a Congressional hearing on Tuesday.

Judge Lets BlackBerry Stay in Play for Now

February 25, 2006
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Owners of BlackBerry wireless e-mail devices can continue to use them, at least for now.

A New Dawn for Museums of Native American Art

August 20, 2005
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Decorated with spirals and migration symbols, Nathan Begay’s multicolored jar resembles an ancient assemblage of shards.

Fritz Scholder, Painter of American Indians, Dies at 67

February 14, 2005
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Fritz Scholder, an American expressionist painter and sculptor whose “Indian” series of paintings in the 1960’s and 70’s reimagined the depiction of Native Americans, died on Thursday in Phoenix. He was 67 and lived in Scottsdale, Ariz.