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Feb. 8, 2002 Vol. 26, No. 20
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PAD celebrates 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

The Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences will celebrate that distinguished anniversary with a new production at Edison Theatre. Shows are at 8 p.m. Feb. 15-16 and at 2 p.m. Feb. 17. The show continues the following weekend at 8 p.m. Feb. 22-23 and at 2 p.m. Feb. 24. Full story

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Whats Up St. Louis
Student Jemal "Jay" Swoboda's monthly magazine, Whats Up St. Louis, is sold by 20-30 homeless people
Helping homeless aim of senior's newspaper

Senior Jemal "Jay" Swoboda is on a mission.

He has started St. Louis' first homeless newspaper even though his only publishing experience came in high school while working on the yearbook. The newspaper's office is located in a back room of his apartment.

And Swoboda has sunk all the money he was saving for graduate school into the project.

Life has been a bit hectic lately. But Swoboda doesn't mind. He's on a mission. Full story


'Super Bowl of Advertising' at Olin School picks winners and losers

The Super Bowl may be the biggest sports event of the year, but the multimillion-dollar ads run during the game were the big game for M.B.A. students in the Olin School of Business.

Olin students, faculty, staff and families huddled with advertising executives from D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles -- the creators of the famous "Bud Bowl" Super Bowl ads for Anheuser-Busch (A-B) -- in Simon Hall Feb. 3 to critique and evaluate the ads. The event, dubbed the "Super Bowl of Advertising," gave the highest marks to the A-B ad that featured the brewery's famous Clydesdales in a poignant Sept. 11 tribute to New York City. Full story


TIGER sets endurance record Completes successful mission over Antarctica

TIGER has landed. The balloon-borne instrument built in the University's cosmic ray astrophysics laboratory completed an unprecedented second loop around the South Pole in search of the origin of cosmic rays, atomic particles that travel through the galaxy at near light speeds and shower the Earth constantly.

TIGER -- Trans-Iron Galactic Element Recorder -- lifted off from McMurdo Station in Antarctica at 5:30 a.m. CST Dec. 20, suspended from a pilotless helium-filled balloon. After traveling approximately 9,000 miles around the perimeter of Antarctica, the experiment landed 31 days, 21.5 hours later -- at 2:55 a.m. CST Jan. 21, some 284 miles from its launch site. Full story

TIGER
TIGER is hoisted onto the launch vehicle for pre-flight testing at McMurdo Station in Antarctica.


E. coli makes Alzheimer's linked fibers

Scott J. Hultgren, Ph.D.
Hultgren
Fibers known to be important in Alzheimer's disease also are produced by bacteria that cause ailments such as urinary tract infections, according to researchers in the School of Medicine.

The finding was described in the Feb. 1 issue of the journal Science.

Scott J. Hultgren, Ph.D., the Helen Lehbrink Stoever Professor of Molecular Microbiology, led the study. Matthew R. Chapman, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow in molecular microbiology, was first author. Full story


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