Japan has a conviction rate of over 99%, most of which are secured on the back of a confession. Why does the Japanese justice system prize confessions so much? "It is the king of evidence. If you can get someone to confess to a crime, the court is going to find them guilty," says Jeff Kingston of Temple University, Japan Campus. "It is also seen as a chance given to a suspect to unburden his guilt and repent for his crimes."

Urgent care clinics make going to the doctor a lot easier. Last week, Temple Health opened one in northeast Philadelphia and plans to open others in Jenkintown and Ft. Washington this spring. The clinics offer 7-day-a-week care, including testing and x-rays, done by Temple doctors and nurses. Rick Mankin, the CEO of Temple Physicians Inc., says, "We have the same walk-in access (as ERs), but we can often treat them without an appointment and get them home within a half hour to an hour."

The annual ING Miami Marathon and Half Marathon generated $52.2 million in total economic impact for the city of Miami and Miami-Dade County in 2012, according to a study by Temple's Sport Industry Research Center. The economic impact of the Miami marathon increased 26.3 percent from the 2011 event, according to the study. The increase is attributed to a rise in individual spending by international visitors and an increase in the number of non-local participants.

Temple sociologist Matt Wray was quoted by Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. in an opinion piece that questions the concept of race. According to Wray, the average 18-year-old American kid, mistakenly thinks of race "as a set of facts about who people are, which is somehow tied to blood and biology and ancestry... It has enabled in the United States for us to justify and legitimate the conquest of Indian land and the near genocide of Native American tribes. It enabled us for such a long time to justify slavery and ... Jim Crow."