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The Power of 10
by Judith Bair
As Brit Kirwan prepares his departure, we review the ways that a decade of effort and his unwavering vision transformed the University of Maryland.

Fit For Life
by Dianne Burch
Armed with the findings of kinesiology experts in Health and Human Performance, a sedentary editor's foray into fitness takes a fortuitous route.

Survey Says...?
by Brenna McBride
Why are Americans so obsessed with polls? Who answers them, who reads them? What is the art and science of asking the "right" question to get the "right" response? For answers, we turned to the folks in the university's Survey Research Center and the graduate program in Survey Methodology.

Palm Wine
Fiction by Reginald McKnight
English professor Reginald McKnight's second volume of stories, White Boys, contains this powerful and insightful tale about a black anthropologist's experience in Senegal.

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