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December 17th, 2009
Climate-change deniers take aim at scientists.
Polls show Americans increasingly turning away from the reality of man-made climate change. But you needn't leave the Keystone State to see the proof.

November 19th, 2009
A Penn grad student seeks an experimental stem-cell treatment in China that he can't get here.
If Ford successfully raises the money on his own, he'll be just one in a nationwide pool of "stem-cell tourists" — Americans who leave their homeland to seek adult stem-cell treatment that doctors are too skeptical, unwilling or (according to advocates) simply intimidated to perform here.

November 5th, 2009
Is a draconian law forcing innocent men out of the country?
Over the last 13 years, the federal government has deported more than 1 million immigrants following criminal convictions — a number that has escalated dramatically in the last decade. But what if the men are innocent, and the law doesn't care?

November 5th, 2009
Thu., Nov. 5, 8:30 p.m., $20, Painted Bride Art Center, 230 Vine St., 267-402-2055, firstpersonarts.org.
"We may tell lies, but we tell smaller lies to get at bigger truths," says Bonanno of the duo's notorious hoaxes.

November 5th, 2009
Sun., Nov. 8, 2 p.m., free, Painted Bride, 230 Vine St., 267-402-2055, firstpersonarts.org.
According to Vicki Solot, executive director of First Person Arts, Hartman will try calling in from prison to answer audience questions on Sunday, but if the jail's on lockdown, it may not work.

October 15th, 2009
Inside Keystone United's "family-friendly" Leif Erikson Day celebration.
"We're defined as enemies of the state," says Eric, who adds that he's been physically attacked for his affiliation with the group. The group simply believes that the white race is superior to all others, and that white people should not mingle with people of color — and really, what's so wrong about that?

October 8th, 2009
Don Argott's ballad of the Barnes Foundation hits the silver screen.
As The Art of the Steal travels to festivals around the world, the film is likely to stir a fundamental debate about the propriety of commercial art museums and the ethics of private art collections. Ultimately, it begs a single underlying question: Who should control access to a collection of art as highly valued and historic as the Barnes?

September 17th, 2009
As the president negotiates the bumpy terrain of health-care reform, does team Obama risk losing momentum?
Excitement was high on the second floor of Millcreek Tavern in West Philadelphia last Wednesday night, as 17 people watched President Obama deliver his much-anticipated health-care address to Congress.

 
 
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