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U dean assists on postwar Iraq report

by Josh Linehan
Published March 13, 2003

The report estimated rebuilding Iraq would cost $20 billion per year.

Former Iraqi citizen seeks freedom for Iraqis, makes plea for war

by Elizabeth Dunbar
Published March 7, 2003

An Iraqi dissident asked the University's College Republicans on Wednesday to help him build support for a U.S.-led war against Iraq. "The people want to be free," said Yacoub al Jaffery, now a U.S. citizen...

National Title IX report stirs dissent

by Ben Goessling
Published February 27, 2003

Wednesday afternoon saw an eight-month review of Title IX's enforcement culminate in the presentation of a 70-page report to U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige. But at the same time on Capitol Hill,...

Renowned author visits U, lectures on women and the Holocaust

Published February 27, 2003

TKristina Fenner he University of Pennsylvania's dean of undergraduate studies visited the University on Wednesday to speak on media representations of the Holocaust. To a handful of people gathered in...

Atomic bomb’s primary ingredient developed at U

by Dan Haugen
Published February 26, 2003

It was leap day Feb. 29, 1940, and University physics professor Alfred Nier had an important errand to run. After leaving his Tate Hall laboratory that Friday, Nier went straight to the Minneapolis Post...

Nuclear threat remains real

by Elizabeth Dunbar
Published February 26, 2003

Americans haven't yet resorted to building bomb shelters as they did in the 1950s, but the threat of nuclear disaster is today as real as it was during the height of the Cold War. As the world's attention...

Nation’s food supply found vulnerable to bioterrorism, says prof

Published February 21, 2003

Following Sept. 11, 2001, all kinds of thoughts filled Americans. Ted Labuza thought immediately about food. Labuza, a University professor for more than 30 years, teaches food safety classes. He had plenty...

A people without a country, Kurds face uncertain future

by Elizabeth Dunbar
Published February 19, 2003

Bayram Yenikaya and Burhan Biner's village is five hours from the Iraqi border in the Kurdish region of Turkey. Though the University math doctoral students said a war in Iraq probably would not threaten...

Major car manufacturers gear up to market hydrogen automobiles

by Nathan Hall
Published February 13, 2003

Ever since the Hindenburg dirigible exploded in a ball of flames in 1937, the notion of traveling via hydrogen has stalled - until now. President George W. Bush's recent State of the Union address promised...

Looming war fuels campus debate

by Lee Billings
Published February 10, 2003

As the debate over a possible U.S.-led war against Iraq intensifies, University students and faculty are speaking out - some justifying war, others pleading for peace. University political science junior...