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Leslie LyonsUniverses in *Slanguage*From hip-hop and blues to boleros and salsa, the cutting-edge poetry collective Universes captures the distinctive sounds and percussive rhythms of their native South Bronx. In October, Universes will make its St. Louis debut with Slanguage, a blistering yet exuberant depiction of modern urban life, at Washington University’s Edison Theatre.

Interferon — a critical protein that mediates the body’s defense against a wide variety of infectious agents and tumors — may soon have greater therapeutic value as the result of a new study by researchers at the School of Medicine.

Katherine B. Magrath, former member of the University’s Board of Trustees and University alumna, died Friday, Sept. 23, 2005, in Naples, Fla., after a long battle with breast cancer. She was 64.

Influential Mexican literary and political figure Carlos Fuentes will deliver the Association of Latin American Students Lecture for Washington University’s Assembly Series at 11 a.m. on Oct. 12. in Graham Chapel. His talk, which is free and open to the public, is titled “Celebrating Cervantes and Don Quixote.”

A monoclonal antibody that can effectively treat mice infected with West Nile virus has an intriguing secret: Contrary to scientists’ expectations, it does not block the virus’s ability to attach to host cells. Instead, the antibody somehow stops the infectious process at a later point.

A giant metal cup, standing five feet tall, four feet in diameter and weighing 1500 pounds will be moved into its new home.The cup is actually a giant replication of a “Ding” and is a gift from alumni of the Olin School of Business’ Executive M.B.A. – Shanghai program

Courtesy photoBonnie Jo CampbellFiction writer Bonnie Jo Campbell will read from her work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 6, for the Writing Program Reading Series. Campbell is the author Q Road (2002), named a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers book, and the collection Women & Other Animals (1999), which won the prestigious Associated Writing Programs prize for short fiction.

Survival of heart attack and unstable angina patients placed on beta-blocker therapy corresponds to specific variations in their genes, according to a study by researchers at the School of Medicine and the Mid America Heart Institute in Kansas City.

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David Kilper*Hair*Break out the love beads and buckskin fringe. Hair is back. Subtitled The American Tribal Love/Rock Musical, Hair was one of the most popular and controversial plays of the 1960s, a Broadway smash for the “sex, drugs and rock-and-roll” generation, sparking radio hits and national protests. In October, Washington University’s Performing Arts Department (PAD) in Arts & Sciences will revive this countercultural classic as its fall Mainstage production.