Temple in the News
The percentage of food shoppers who are obese is almost 10 times higher at low-cost grocery stores compared with upscale markets, a small new study shows. Researchers say the striking findings...
May 24, 2010
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Republican Nikki Haley is hoping to succeed Mark Sanford as South Carolina governor. She is the front runner, picking up endorsements from Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney...
May 24, 2010
Civilization owes much to corn, and to the early people who first cultivated it. Researchers led by Anthony Ranere, professor of anthropology at Temple, and Dolores...
May 24, 2010
A growing number of women are committing complex financial schemes that involve motives traditionally associated with male offenders, experts say. Temple psychologist Frank Farley, who studies...
May 21, 2010
Immigration law expert and Beasley School of Law faculty member Jan Ting, a former assistant commissioner at the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, joined "News Hour" host Roy Suarez for a...
May 21, 2010
Bicyclist Floyd Landis's admission that he took performance-enhancing drugs is one of the least shocking sports headlines in recent memory. The good news: doping is down, according to psychiatrist...
May 21, 2010
To survive in Philadelphia without food stamps or other government assistance, a family of four needs to make nearly $60,000 a year — a shocking number that shows how expensive life has become....
May 20, 2010
Today bicycle-friendliness is considered a factor in the sustainability of big cities. The city's proposed new bicycle network, now undergoing final revisions, will roughly double the miles of...
May 20, 2010
In Wissahickon Scenes, a new composition for the Philadelphia Classical Symphony, Maurice Wright, chair of Music Studies and coordinator of the composition division at Temple's Boyer College of...
May 20, 2010
While several states held hotly contested primaries, the Gallup Poll staged a seminar on using its data to track the likely outcome of elections in November. "Based on the current state of play, it...
May 20, 2010