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Temple baseball team goes bald for cancer fundraiser

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6ABC

Temple baseball team members had their heads shaved to raise money for a charity called "Basebald." The philanthropic effort was Coach Ryan Wheeler's idea. A father of three, Wheeler lost his own dad to cancer and wanted to help kids and their families fighting the disease. "It really puts things in perspective, when we're playing a baseball game and trying to win or lose, to see children suffer like that, it's beyond words," said Coach Wheeler.

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Murder rate down, foot patrols credited

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KYW News Radio

New statistics show that the number of homicides is down in 2013. Jerry Ratcliffe, criminal justice professor at Temple, is part of the Smart Policing Initiative team, which works on strategies to reduce crime. He says one of the biggest game changers has been foot patrols. “The offenders who were sometimes committing crime are aware that there are foot patrol officers who are nearby, who know exactly who they are, and know exactly the sort of thing that they could get up to, and that tends to have a fairly suppressive effect on crime,” Ratcliffe said.

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Philadelphia's Poetry Ink brings together diverse voices

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Philadelphia Inquirer

The topics ranged from love and sex to history and time, but it was all poetry in motion Sunday at the Arts Bank in Center City. Sonia Sánchez, poet laureate of Philadelphia and professor emeritus at Temple, headlined the event, which featured more than 100 poets. "I cannot waltz my tongue. Under a soprano sky, a woman sings, lovely as chandeliers," said Sanchez in reading her poem, "Under a Soprano Sky.”  

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Temple’s School of Dentistry to celebrate 150 years

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KYW News Radio

Temple University’s Kornberg School of Dentistry is marking it’s 150th anniversary. “It’s the second oldest dental school in the country in continuous existence,” said Dean Amid Ismail. “It started in Philadelphia during the Civil War by a physician dentist, who wanted to develop a school that could prepare trained dentists in a structured program.” The event will be marked by a gala and free dental care for current patients. Ismail says 40 percent of all trained dentists working in Pennsylvania were students at Temple’s Dental School.

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Smaller dishes, portions may help kids stay at a healthy weight: study

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Shrinking the size of kids' plates and bowls might help them eat less and keep off extra weight, new research suggests. Jennifer Fisher, a researcher at Temple’s Center for Obesity Research and one of the study authors, said it was preliminary but could still inform parent choices. "For now, certainly it seems like something parents can easily incorporate into their daily lives without a lot of work and effort," she said.

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How the DREAM Act may impact America: a Q&A with Temple Law’s Jan Ting

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Washington Times

Many Americans are uncomfortable with the prospect of so-called “amnesty” for illegal immigrants. One of them is Jan Ting, a professor at Temple’s Beasley School of Law and former assistant commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service under George H.W. Bush. “I respect proponents of unlimited immigration, which is an intellectually coherent position to take,” Ting said in an extended question-and-answer piece.

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Temple Health opens new urgent care center in Jenkintown

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KYW News Radio

Temple University Health System staged an open house for its third Ready Care facility. It’s located off Old York Road in the Jenkintown area. Rick Mankin, CEO of Temple Physicians Inc., says what the urgent care patients might need is now right around the corner. “Whether you cut yourself on a bagel that you’re cutting that Sunday morning, or whether you smash your finger while hanging a picture, or whether you just feel plain lousy and need to see a doctor,” Mankin said.

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Strategies developed by Temple criminologist help lower Philadelphia homicide rate

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Philadelphia Daily News

Philadelphia’s homicide rate is raising eyebrows — for all of the right reasons. Since the start of the year, 54 homicides have been recorded, a 39 percent drop from the same period a year ago. Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey credited Smart Policing strategies developed with the help of Temple criminologist Jerry Ratcliffe. Ratcliffe said his team has helped to train police officers to better analyze crime data and craft long-term solutions for violent hotspots. “I think a lot of district captains are learning to think more strategically,” he said.

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Law firms tout cybersecurity cred

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Wall Street Journal

As data breaches and cybercrime become a bigger concern for companies, law firms are touting secrecy in their efforts to win business. Companies on the losing-side of data-breach class-action litigation pay an average settlement award of $2,500 per plaintiff, with attorney fees averaging around $1.2 million, according to a survey released last year by Temple University Beasley School of Law.

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Tumors on Ice as Budget Impasse Freezes Medical Research

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Bloomberg

Sequestration has cast a shadow of uncertainty over public funding for medical research. Steven Houser, director of the cardiovascular research center at Temple’s School of Medicine, said he fears the cuts will hamper research for years to come, shrinking the number of trainees hired or accepted into graduate programs, and causing still other students to question whether research is a viable career option. “The main thing that’s going to happen is people are going to lose jobs,” Houser said.

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