Missed meetings, apologetic phone calls and an ex-girlfriend's curiosity about seeing her replacement were the focus of the defense's direct examination of Irina Malinovskaya yesterday.

It's time to bring Philadelphia back to the Delaware River, city planners say. The Philadelphia City Planning Commission has big plans for the vacant lots along river in Northeast Philadelphia. The Commission hopes that proposed residences, retail and green spaces will link neighborhoods to the river.

Considering what has happened in the last several weeks, the men's soccer team now has little reason to be intimidated by a big-conference opponent. The Quakers take on Seton Hall, the first of two Big East opponents, tonight at Rhodes Field. The game kicks off at 5 p.

U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings announced last week which recommendations from a higher education report she plans to implement. The report, released last month, is the result of a commission on higher education that Spellings formed last September to consider solutions to problems afflicting higher education in the country.

Graduate-student life causes insomnia with thoughts like "Will I ever finish my dissertation?" "Will I find a job?" and "Am I going to die alone?" Needless to say, a mind already filled with these kinds of irrational thoughts has a short trip to others like urban crime.

Fourth-string quarterback Richard Irvin was all set to start under center for Harvard this weekend. After starter Liam O'Hagan was suspended for misconduct and backups Chris Pizzotti and Jeff Witt went down with injuries, the Crimson was in a tough spot. But after all the drama, Pizzotti recovered more than a week before expected, and led the Crimson to victory.

A child dies every 15 seconds from diarrhea contracted through contaminated water, but the world is still far from solving its shortage of clean water, says one environmental scientist. Stanley Laskowski, a lecturer in the Master of Environmental Studies Program, contended that the water shortage and sanitation crisis constitute one of the biggest environmental problems in the world yesterday in Hayden Hall.

Nearly every morning this summer, I scrambled out of my Columbia University dorm room to squeeze through the swarming porthole at 116th and Broadway - the entrance to the 1 train. One morning in June, I saw a startling change in the subway-car decor: the once proverbial Budweiser ads had all but disappeared, only to be replaced by the gleaming propaganda of Jews for Jesus.

In January 2005, then-Harvard University President Lawrence Summers gave the speech heard 'round the world. In a talk presented at a conference on diversifying the science and engineering workforce, he hypothesised that differences in innate abilities are responsible for the relative scarcity of women in science.

The men's soccer team's loss to underdog La Salle on a late goal two weeks ago could have been the turning point in the Quakers' season. It could have taken the wind out of the team's sails at the worst possible time - right before the onset of the Ivy League season.

The victory cigar of two weeks ago was gone; Al Bagnoli wasn't celebrating. It may have been that the 101st win of his Penn career - a 17-10 escape versus lowly Dartmouth on Saturday - wasn't a milestone the way his 100th was. Or he may have watched the game and thought that an express order from the local smoke shop may have been premature.

In general, Penn and Princeton are considered to be bitter athletic rivals. But in sprint football, the series is so one-sided that it can hardly even be called a contest. Penn has dominated Princeton for over a decade now, with the Tigers' last win against the Quakers coming in 1995.

On Friday night, the members of the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society gathered in the Rotunda to hear fantasy novelist and folklorist Josepha Sherman speak, but Sherman herself was no where to be found. The group sent delegates to meet her at the train station, but she never got off the train.

In general, Penn and Princeton are considered to be bitter athletic rivals. But in sprint football, the series is so one-sided that it can hardly even be called a contest. Penn has dominated Princeton for over a decade now, with the Tigers' last win against the Quakers coming in 1995.

Shows like 'Double Dare' and 'Guts,' which inspired healthy competition in a generation of kids, have all but disappeared.

Engineering School sophomore Kristen Ying says she didn't study for her finals last year, and she did fine. At least for her College courses, anyway. Her Engineering courses were a whole different story. "During reading days, I studied for my Engineering finals whenever I was awake," she said.

The team that senior Melina Tsui called "the best it's ever been" couldn't have seen this loss coming. Faced with a winnable game, the Quakers crumbled in Hanover, N.H., to Dartmouth on Saturday evening. Dartmouth (3-5, 1-2 Ivy) went ahead 2-0 at halftime and withstood Penn's second-half comeback.