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Penn team helps define ‘right stuff’ for Mars voyagers
Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania are helping Mars-mission planners figure who has the “right stuff” for prolonged ...
13 years ago
Neighbors Making a Difference: Change through hip-hop [Video]
When I met Alex Peay at an awards banquet last year, he was accompanied by several high school-aged boys who seemed to look to him for gu ...
13 years ago
Shore cleanup continues as Ocean County restrictions ease
More than two months after Superstorm Sandy, the barrier islands in Ocean County are now fully open. But that doesn’t mean that eve ...
13 years ago
Priest, teacher face sexual abuse allegations at Philly trial
This week, another trial about allegations of sexual abuse in Philadelphia Catholic schools begins. It has national implications. ...
13 years ago
Applying lessons of airline industry to health care
Thomas Jefferson University has invited a national expert to Philadelphia to talk about what the health industry can learn from the airli ...
13 years ago
Sandy Hook massacre: The NRA’s gun ‘rights’ are a fabrication of modern times
Remember that elementary-school exercise, “Opinion or True/False”? The point was to differentiate claims that were debatable ...
13 years ago
New exhibit commemorates Bethlehem Steel furnaces
A new photography exhibit aims to bring the defunct blast furnaces of Bethlehem Steel back to life. “Blast Furnace” wi ...
13 years ago
With an eye toward continuing efforts for social justice, a two-day festival held at a Roxborough synagogue this past weekend celebrated ...
13 years ago
With priest-abuse trial underway, former student’s mind is in the classroom
My very best friends today are the people I went to grade school with. In 1998, we were passing notes in class and testing the authority ...
13 years ago
Would-be robber uses coffee machine to escape West Oak Lane convenience store [Video]
In what’s become an all-to-familiar call for help, Philadelphia police released video on Monday of a robbery at the 7-Eleven conven ...
13 years ago
Outgoing Delaware fire chief given top honors
There was nary a dry eye inside Wilmington’s Emergency Operations Center, as Wilmington’s finest celebrated the 32 year caree ...
13 years ago
Chris Christie’s popularity soars as his budget declines
This is commentary from political blogger and cartoonist Rob Tornoe. New York City may be the home of Broadway, but ...
13 years ago
Fire damages Mt. Airy apartment building
A fire broke out Friday night at an apartment building on the 6900 block of Creishem Road in Mount Airy, according to officials with the ...
13 years ago
Living Beyond Breast Cancer celebrates the 18th annual Butterfly Ball at the Loews
Brought to you by Freemans Auctioneers, The Circuit, with Caroline Stewart, takes you to the Loews Philadelphia Hotel for the Living Beyo ...
13 years ago
Imhotep Charter football star David Williams chooses the University of South Carolina
For the second time in as many years, a star football player from Northwest Philadelphia has announced that he will play for a nationally ...
13 years ago