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'50 Children: One Ordinary American Couple’s Extraordinary Rescue Mission into the Heart of Nazi Germany
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New book chronicles Philly couple’s daring rescue of 50 Jewish kids on eve of Holocaust

Monday marks Holocaust Remembrance Day, commemorating the 6 million Jews who were murdered by the Nazis. The story of a Philadelph ...

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The Schuylkill River
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Earth Day pollution prevention through good housekeeping

On this 44th Earth Day, the efforts of the Pennsylvania Environmental Council and the Philadelphia Water Department are focused in part o ...

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Two Friends schools mark 325 years in Philadelphia

This year mark’s the 325th Anniversary of two icons of Philadelphia education–William Penn Charter School and Friends Select ...

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Inga Saffron: It’s not just architecture, it’s city life criticism

Inga Saffron, who writes the “Changing Skyline” column for the Philadelphia Inquirer, won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism th ...

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How much sleep is enough? Researchers will evaluate national guidelines

What’s the right amount of sleep, where we feel rested, good, and our brains function at their best? A group of researchers is goin ...

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Art of Food — Produced by Monica Rogozinski Coming from a Pennsylvania Dutch background and a long line of bakers, Holl ...

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A UD green chemist turns chicken feathers, soybeans into renewable building material

In this edition of So, What Do You Do?, Shoshana Martyniak asks UD’s Richard Wool how he makes vegan leather out of chicken feather ...

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Dr. Zachary Meisel
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Researchers replace guidelines with fables, to test doctors’ memories

Can person-to-person storytelling help doctors remember key information? Two researchers at the University of Pennsylvania recentl ...

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Dispatch from a Philly pharma conference

A pharma conference, eyeforpharma 2014, was in Philly this week, ...

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Caring for caregivers when their lives feel ‘a bit like war’

A look at the challenges of caregiving and the ways in which we can help those providing care for a loved one.  Every year, 6 ...

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Medical questions linger as marijuana legalization proposal hits New Jersey

What do we know about marijuana’s impact on our brains?  At the start of the New Year, as a new law went into effect le ...

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From magic mushrooms to skateboarding physics: A Philadelphia Science Festival preview

Here are the seven events you need to see at this year’s Philadephia Science Festival.  ...

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When it comes to attractiveness of beards, it’s about what’s rare, not the hair

New research shows that when beards or clean shaven faces are ...

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Hoboken's PATH station during Superstorm Sandy. Hoboken's mayor claims Sandy aid was withheld for political reasons. (AP Photo/Port Authority of New York and New Jersey)
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Christie’s Mastro report confirms Sandy aid program riddled with errors

The head of a state committee responsible for doling out $25 million in Sandy energy grants has told the legal team hired by the Christie ...

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Minnesota beat North Dakota in the NCAA men's college hockey Frozen Four tournament game
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Frozen Four in Philadelphia is down to two

NewsWorks Tonight Host Dave Heller speaks with Adam Wodon, Managing Editor of College Hockey News, about this weekend’s sh ...

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