Temple in the News
Steven Washington, owner of the North Philadelphia salon I Love Remy Hair Inc., is confident his business will make him a millionaire in a little more than a year. His target customers — African...
December 26, 2011
An international study of holiday shopping and religion finds that dominant religious groups are more likely to experience "consumption mass hysteria" while shoppers in minority religions may view...
December 22, 2011
Why did Lindsay Lohan decide to appear nude in Playboy? Lohan's pictorial may be tasteful — like many of her photo shoots, it is inspired by Monroe — but it still strikes some as desperate and seedy...
December 21, 2011
When it comes to celebrity memorabilia, nothing seems out of bounds: In March, a lock of Justin Bieber's hair fetched $40,668 on eBay. "Some people desire to have a personal link, however absurd,...
December 20, 2011
New York Times' columnist Charles Blow recently used Census data to refute Newt Gingrich's claim that "really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody...
December 20, 2011
When it comes to food, all most kids care about is flavor. So how can parents, who've overcome the genetic predisposition against tart-tasting food that afflicts about 70 percent of us, compel kids...
December 20, 2011
This month through Christmas Eve, students from Temple's School of Tourism and Hospitality Management have been managing a gift-wrapping station at Philadelphia International Airport, where travelers...
December 19, 2011
New research has found that even girls who do engage in sports and other forms of regular physical activity tend to abandon it in their teen years. The study followed girls for 10 years and found...
December 19, 2011
Exploring the genetic causes of hypertension has fueled the research of Michael Brown, director of the Hypertension Molecular and Applied Physiology Laboratory at Temple, for the last 10 years. Brown...
December 19, 2011
A new feature of Facebook allows users to report posts that look like suicide threats. The social networking site will then send an email to the suicidal person, encouraging them to call a helpline,...
December 19, 2011