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A legal battle brewing in Pennsylvania's Supreme Court could leave state beer distributors with a massive hangover. The case, recently accepted by the state's high court, could open the door for six-pack sales in supermarkets and convenience stores. Sheetz, a gas station and convenience store chain located mostly in central Pennsylvania, is appealing a lower court's decision that would stop it from selling beer.


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The Hawks worked steadily against the Penn defense. After a deflection, Saint Joseph's forward Marisa Pizzi found herself open with the ball. She buried her shot in the back of the net and scored what proved to be their game-winning goal. Or did she? Quakers coach Val Cloud didn't think so.


Questionable non-call costs Penn big

The Hawks worked steadily against the Penn defense. After a deflection, Saint Joseph's forward Marisa Pizzi found herself open with the ball. She buried her shot in the back of the net and scored what proved to be their game-winning goal. Or did she? Quakers coach Val Cloud didn't think so.




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Wharton and College sophomore Julia Luscombe spent the summer jumping from coast to coast before jetting off to spend two weeks in Japan and South Korea. The best part? It was free, courtesy of Penn. But here's the catch: As a member of the Provost's Undergraduate Research Mentorship Program, Luscombe had to research alternative systems of currency around the world.





Volleyball: Frosh may give much-needed breath of air

The difference between this year's and last year's women's volleyball team is night and day, according to coach Kerry Carr. And the difference is the incoming freshmen, who in many ways compose the strongest recruiting class that Penn has had in years.





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Sept. 6, 2007

252Locally-owned bridges in the Philadelphia area which are considered structurally deficient.Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer


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When former Wharton Dean Patrick Harker left Penn, eight others followed, forcing the business school to rebuild much of its upper administration. But don't be surprised by the exodus: It was to be expected, experts say. Three administrators - Monica Taylor, executive director of external affairs and the Wharton Fund, Patricia Plummer Wilson, Wharton chief of staff and director of faculty administration and Scott Douglass, vice president for finance and treasurer for the University -- followed Harker to the University of Delaware, where Harker has assumed the presidency.


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Fear of the Freshman 15 is not the only reason new students are thinking about food. The University chose Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma for this year's Penn Reading Project, for which freshmen are assigned a book to read over the summer. The book tracks different meals from their start on the farm to their finale on the dinner table - everything from a hunter's catch to a McDonald's meal.


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Two years after Hurricane Katrina, members of the Penn community are responding to residual issues plaguing the New Orleans and Mississippi communities. Connie Hoe and Namhee Yun, two recent graduates of Penn's School of Social Policy and Practice, and first-year SP2 graduate student Crystal Lucas spent last July in Pearlington - a small town located on the western border of Mississippi - addressing the mental-health needs of local residents.


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Over a dozen American universities received bomb threats within the past ten days, though no explosives were found at any of the threatened sites. The Federal Bureau of Investigations is still examining the apparent hoaxes. "We're working with the college and university police and the local police to investigate these matters," FBI Special Agent Richard Kolko said.


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Ellen Robb's death was a personal attack made by someone who wanted her face bludgeoned so badly that she became "hardly recognizable as a human being," according to two mental-health professionals. But the lawyer for Rafael Robb, the Economics professor who will face trial this fall in connection with the death of Ellen, his wife, wants to bar that expert testimony from court.