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    art and lifestyle he explored the nature of fame‚ popular culture‚ and the media. His artistic influence and unusual personality redefined the modern art world. Andy Warhol was born August 6‚ 1928 in the working class neighborhood of Oakwood‚ in Pittsburgh‚ Pennsylvania. His parents were immigrants from Czechoslovakia. Their last name was Warhola‚ which Andy later shortened to Warhol. At the age of 8‚ Warhol contracted Chorea - also known as St. Vitus ’s Dance - a rare and sometimes fatal disease

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    It is rare for an artist to become a celebrity‚ but Andy Warhol experienced much more than his "fifteen minutes of fame"‚ and became an icon of his generation. Andrew Warhola was born August Sixth‚ 1928‚ in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. He was the youngest son of Julie and Andrej Warhola‚ both immigrants from Czechoslovakia. In Fifth grade Andrew started attending the free Saturday classes that the Carnegie Institute taught. It is noted that even then young Andrew excelled at his art. Due to the bullying

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    was invited to spend a year researching influenza’s. Dr. Salk joined his mentor Dr. Thomas Francis‚ as a research fellow at the University of Michigan. There‚ he worked to develop an influenza vaccine In 1947 was appointed to the University of Pittsburgh Medical School and saw a golden opportunity to develop a vaccine against polio and devoted his work to it for the next 8years. In 1948 Dr. Salk took the techniques that he had learned from the past with working with influenzas and the “principle

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    References: [1] Aguado‚ Olazar‚ San Jose‚ Gaisan & Bilbao. (2002). Energy & Fuels 16‚ 1429. [2] Roces‚ Ashida‚ Pattarapanusak‚ Morimoto & Miura. (2006). Proceedings of the 23rd Pittsburgh Coal Conference‚ Pittsburgh. April 2007

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    Tania Say Article Rebuttal Does the Use of Cell Phones Cause Brain Cancer? The Opponent’s Argument In this paper valid points will be presented to refute the statement made by Dr. Ronald Herberman‚ Director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute‚ to his faculty and staff on July 21‚ 2008. “Limit cell phone use because of the potential risk of cancer” (Reyes‚ 2009). Herberman based his claim on unpublished data and stated “it takes too long to get answers from science

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    The idea a forced choice can still show identity is inaccurate and irrelevant when reflecting on The Street Sweeper and Me and Earl and the Dying Girl. The greater truth is that choice forms identity and no greater portrayal of this idea exists than in the aforementioned texts through characters Lamont Williams‚ Henrik Mandelbrot‚ Greg Gaines and Rachel Kushner. In The Street Sweeper‚ Lamont Williams‚ a probationary janitor at a hospital is a product of his choices. Unfairly convicted and out of

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    I had departed early on Thursday for my descent back to the cold chilly city of Pittsburgh. During the day‚ my friend who attends Duquesne University in downtown invited me to a night on the town with her and her friends to go to the 3Lau concert at Club Diesel. Usually the club is over 21 on every night‚ but Thursday’s are different you only have to be 18 years of age or older. Whenever she announced that 3Lau would be performing there‚ I became too enthusiastic and eager. I had witnessed them once

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    Racial profiling‚ over-policing and excess force are plaguing communities all over the country: Pennsylvania’s American Civil Liberties Union empowers Pennsylvanians with a new app designed to address law enforcement misconduct: The Mobile Justice PA app http://www.aclupa.org/education/mobile-justice-pa/ came about partly due to the instances in which Philadelphia police officers impeded or arrested citizens who were filming them. The First Amendment protects Americans against governmental censorship

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    indicative of the changing and progressive nature of the Reform Movement. The ‘Pittsburgh platform’ of 1885 shows the movement in America begin to question the infallibility of Jewish doctrine and puts forward the idea that any ritual in conflict with modern ideas and values should be rejected (KUNIN‚ 2009‚ 186). The ‘Columbus Platform’‚ which was adopted in 1937‚ believed in many of the same ideas as was established in the ‘Pittsburgh Platform’. The major difference between the two was that the ‘Columbus

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    TCRP TRANSIT COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAM REPORT 90 Sponsored by the Federal Transit Administration Bus Rapid Transit Volume 1: Case Studies in Bus Rapid Transit TCRP OVERSIGHT AND PROJECT SELECTION COMMITTEE (as of October 2002) TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 2003 (Membership as of March 2003) CHAIR J. BARRY BARKER Transit Authority of River City Chair: Genevieve Giuliano‚ Director and Prof.‚ School of Policy‚ Planning‚ and Development‚ USC

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