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		<title>Wetherhead &#8217;98 Shines in Off-Broadway Musical</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Low</dc:creator>
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Kate Wetherhead ’98 currently stars in the off-Broadway musical Ordinary Days with a score by Adam Gwon and directed by Mark Bruni. The show deals the lives and troubles of four young people living in New York City. In a positive review in The New York Times, Charles Isherwood says the show “captures with stinging [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Traces Friendship Between Math Teacher Joffray &#8217;50 and Student</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Low</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In The Calculus of Friendship (Princeton University Press), Cornell University professor Steven Strogatz chronicles the moving story of the friendship he developed with his former high school math teacher, Don Joffray ’50, over 30 years through the exchange of letters between them. For a long time, their friendship revolved almost entirely on a shared love [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Levy &#8217;96 Considers Feminism in Books About American Women</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Low</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Nov. 16 issue of The New Yorker, staff writer Ariel Levy ’96 looks at two new books: When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present (Little Brown) by Gail Collins, and You’ve Come a Long Way, Maybe: Sarah, Michelle, Hillary and the Shaping of the New American [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brenner &#8217;92 Co-edits Book on Spiritual and Psychological Care in Disaster Relief Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Low</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Grant Brenner ’92, Daniel Bush and Joshua Moses are co-editors of Creating Spiritual and Psychological Resilience: Integrating Care in Disaster Relief Work (Routledge), which explores the interface between spiritual and psychological care in the context of disaster recovery work, drawing upon recent disasters including the experiences of Sept. 11, 2001.
The book contains three sections structured around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pollitt &#8217;43 Receives State Award</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia Rockwell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daniel Pollitt ’43, University of North Carolina Kenan Professor Emeritus and longtime civil-liberties and civil-rights advocate, was awarded the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, one of the state’s highest honors, last summer.
Nominated for the award by state Sen. Floyd McKissick Jr., whose father, Floyd McKissick Sr., worked with Pollitt on a number of civil-rights [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Melillo &#8217;65 Says Biofuels Emit More Co2 Than Gasoline</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia Rockwell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jerry Melillo ’65, a senior scientist at the U.S. Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., says in a study published in Science that the new generation of biofuels will actually emit more carbon dioxide, averaged over the first three decades of this century, than gasoline—although the fuels were meant to be a low-carbon alternative.
A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Andrus &#8217;33 Turns 100</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Bartlett Drake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Photos courtesy of Megan Kelly &#8216;06)

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		<title>Shumlin &#8217;79 to be Honored by Civil Rights Group</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia Rockwell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vermont State Senator Peter Shumlin ’79 will be honored at the 8th Annual Human Rights Campaign New England Dinner, to be held in Boston on Nov. 14. HRC New England, the largest GLBT civil rights advocacy group in the country, is this year presenting the marriage equality award to “those who were heroes in our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report by Harrison MA &#8217;08 Says Water Found on Mars</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia Rockwell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tanya Harrison MA ’08, who studied with Martha Gilmore, associate professor of earth and environmental sciences, and is now at Malin Space Science Systems in California, is first author on a report that says her team found evidence of liquid water flowing on the surface of Mars in multiple locations as recently as this year.
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		<title>Cothran &#8217;01 Discovers Rare 1870s Photography Book</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia Rockwell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent article in the Tennessean highlighted a notable discovery at Nashville’s Parthenon Museum: a rare and complete copy of William J. Stillman&#8217;s 1870 photographic book, The Acropolis of Athens, Illustrated Picturesquely and Architecturally in Photography.
Registrar and Assistant Curator Brenna Cothran ’01 came across it as part of an ongoing four-year-old project of inventorying every [...]]]></description>
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