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Prof. discovers gene for viable plants

By Kate Farley | July 22, 2008

More mothers worldwide may soon be able to order their children to finish their vegetables, as Dartmouth biology researchers have identified a plant gene that is key to growing healthy and nutritious plants.

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Rauh backs public campaign financing

By Michael Coburn | July 18, 2008

Six dollars a year is all it takes to end the power of corporate lobbyists and create a national public campaign finance system, John Rauh, founder and president of Americans for Campaign Reform, told an audience of approximately 400 local residents at Spaulding Auditorium on Tuesday.

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Phillips talks of life, literature

By Andrew Wells | July 18, 2008

Writer Caryl Phillips was a mere 10 years old when his father first decided to leave him alone while he worked a night shift. "Then, late at night, alone in the huge double bed, he leans over and discovers a paperback in the drawer of the bedside table and he begins to read the book," Phillips read from his autobiography titled "Growing Pains." "It is a true story about a white American man who has made himself black in order that he might experience what it is like to be a coloured man." John Howard Griffin's "Black Like Me" was just one of the works that deeply affected Phillips as a child.

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Doctor moves closer to classifying scleroderma

By William Schpero | July 18, 2008

A team of researchers at Dartmouth has shown for the first time that different forms of the autoimmune disease scleroderma can be classified solely by variations in gene expression, according to findings published on July 16 in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS One, an online, open-access publication.

Plans for a new $52 million visual arts center were released this week.
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Visual arts center plans uncovered

By Ben Nunnery | July 18, 2008

COURTESY OF THE DARTMOUTH AEGIS Dartmouth's release of architectural plans for a $52 million visual arts center to be located in downtown Hanover earlier this week has prompted criticism from some members of the College's Liaison Committee, which serves as a link between Dartmouth and town residents.

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Daily Debriefing

By Compiled by William Schpero | July 15, 2008

Democratic National Committee Chairman and former Vermont Governor Howard Dean visited Hanover on Friday to meet with residents of the Kendall retirement community.

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Prouty ride, walk raises $2 million

By Michael Coburn | July 15, 2008

Courtesy of Donnie Surdoval Forty-two hundred students and community members came out Saturday to walk, run and bike to fight cancer in the 27th Annual Prouty Century Bike Ride and Challenge Walk.

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Daily Debriefing

By Compiled by William Schpero | July 11, 2008

Photos of an Iranian missile test distributed to journalists on Wednesday by officials with the country's Revolutionary Guard were altered to show four missiles launching instead of three, according to a Scientific American interview with Dartmouth computer science professor Hany Farid published on Thursday.

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Rassias method travels to Mexico

By Amita Kulkarni | July 11, 2008

Although the image of French and Italian professor John Rassias punctuating a lecture with sudden sprints around his classroom may be a familiar one, the audience watching Rassias' antics this week will be slightly different.

Hunter Lovins, CEO of Natural Capitalism Solutions Inc. and co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute speaks in Spaulding Auditorium.
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Lovins links eco-policy, high profits

By Michael Coburn | July 11, 2008

Maggie Goldstein / The Dartmouth Staff Corporations that go "green" may find themselves "in the black," as environmentally friendly policies are also helping profits, Hunter Lovins, CEO of Natural Capitalism Solutions Inc. and co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute, said to a packed crowd of over 500 in Spaulding Auditorium on Tuesday.

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Peace Corps panelists talk of trials, triumphs

By Andrew Wells | July 11, 2008

In the West African seventh grade classroom of Meg Fuchs '01 -- which held about 35 desks for her 55 students -- Fuchs sought creative means to teach her students about safe sex and preventing the spread of AIDS. On one occasion, Fuchs asked each of her students to bring a condom to class to avoid receiving a zero-percent grade. Fuchs' experiences were among those recounted at "Inspiring Service for the Common Good," a panel discussion held in the Rockefeller Center on July 8. The event featured five speakers, including three Dartmouth alumni, who recounted their experiences in the volunteer community. "I had always wanted to change the world; everyone does to some degree or another," Kiva Wilson '04, who worked in El Salvador from 2004 to 2006 helping farmers and youths improve farming techniques, said at the event.

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