When former MarBar manager Bob Hanna packed his bags and took over 2 Goodfella's a block away, he got a lot of his former employees to follow him.

As we speak, American scientists are packing their bags and moving to Singapore.

If there were any doubts about the intensity of the cross-town rivalry developing between Penn and Villanova, last night's game should have silenced them.

China Okasi, a Penn Graduate School of Education alumna, was always the one friends and family turned to for help with an essay, whether by knocking on her dorm-room door or meeting for a tutoring session at the Weingarten Learning Resources Center in Stouffer Commons.

Alicia Puglionesi is a College sophomore from Havertown, Pa.

A little more than a year ago, America paused. People stopped, however briefly, and paid attention to the news.

After beating Rutgers by a combined score of 7-0 in the last two years, Penn junior Meghan Rose found out yesterday that a third victory against the Scarlet Knights would not come with such a lopsided score - if at all. That lightbulb likely went off even before the field hockey team found itself headed into overtime when the frustrated Quakers found itself tied 1-1 with its unspectacular opponents - despite nearly outshooting them by double digits.

It's one of the most valuable and unique pieces in Penn's art collection, but chances are you've never even heard of it, let alone noticed it tucked away in a corner of Van Pelt Library's first floor. Penn's Rittenhouse Orrery is a model of the solar system, complete with accurately moving planets, and is as precise as was possible in the late 18th century, according to Bob Koch, a retired astronomy professor who has researched the orrery.

"Ready. Set. Vote." This is the catchphrase of Pennsylvania's instructional voting video, produced by the state government in an effort to minimize woes at state voting booths Nov. 7. In May's primary, 200 machines jammed, leaving voters at certain sites with only one machine to use, Chris Sheridan, public-policy director for the Philadelphia political watchdog group Committee of Seventy, said.

Despite losing the battles of possession time and shots on goal, Harvard women's soccer managed to continue its dominance over Penn. The previously winless Crimson (1-6-1, 1-0 Ivy) improved to 12-2-2 all-time versus their Ivy rivals, escaping Rhodes Field with a 2-1 victory yesterday afternoon.

The score of Saturday night's game was just an illusion. If someone walked into Franklin Field during the last two-and-a-half minutes of the game and saw the scoreboard, they might assume that this had been a neck-and-neck contest all the way. They would be wrong.

Facebook.com may soon be sold to Yahoo for about $1 billion, according to an article published last week in The Wall Street Journal. The companies are in serious discussions over the sale of the site, founded by former Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg in 2004, the Journal reported.

Psychiatry professor emeritus Aaron Beck has been selected to receive the 2006 Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research. The Lasker Awards are the nation's most distinguished honor for basic and medical research and are sometimes called "America's Nobels," in reference to the prestigious Nobel Prizes that are given in Stockholm, Sweden, every year.

On July 2, Mexico faced the most competitive presidential election in its history. On Sept. 5, the Federal Electoral Tribunal - the ultimate arbiter of Mexican elections - officially declared conservative Felipe Calderon the president-elect of Mexico.

Penn Medicine Radiology professor Marc Levine has received an Eminent Scientist of the Year Award 2006 from the International Research Promotion Council, based in India. Levine, both a clinician and a researcher, received the award for his research in gastrointestinal radiology, a field in which he has co-authored and published about 300 pieces of literature.

Crotchety old science professors are becoming a rarer breed, at least for students in the School of Engineering and Applied Science. In the last five years alone, Penn's Engineering School has made a total of 35 new hires, and over half of Engineering faculty were hired within the last eight years, according to Engineering School Dean Eduardo Glandt.