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St. Louis Post-DispatchOsteoporosis is the cause of more than 1 million bone fractures each year — injuries which can be devastating to the elderly. The condition, however, seems to be spreading among the young, even those in prime physical shape. Kathryn Diemer, director of the Bone Health Program, talks about the increase of cases in younger adults in the following St. Louis Post-Dispatch article, which focuses on a 34-year-old marathon runner.

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“Now, each candidate can expect to have the support of about 50 percent of the audience, making the debate hall a friendlier place for both sides.”

“This is a person who is driven by his heart, but that will get you into in situations where, if your head doesn’t take over, you’re in trouble.”

EarlyGerald Early, Ph.D., the Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters in the Department of English and director of the Center for the Humanities, both in Arts & Sciences, has received a $222,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Division of Education Programs. The grant will fund “Teaching Jazz as American Culture,” an NEH Summer Institute to be held at Washington University in 2005.

More than 670 students and 106 faculty and staff members have volunteered to help with the Oct. 8 debate.

The season for sneezin’ is here.Ragweed pollen counts appear to have peaked in early September this year, nearly a month later than usual. H. James Wedner, chief of the division of allergy and immunology, comments on what this means for allergy sufferers in this article by Tina Hesman of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Tom CaravagliaGus Solomons jrGus Solomons jr, a distinguished visiting professor in Washington University’s Dance Program in Arts & Sciences, will discuss his career as a dancer, choreographer and critic during an informal lecture/demonstration titled Gus Solomons jr Tells All at 4 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 30.

Michael Bierut, principal designer for Pentagram Design in New York, will launch the Washington University School of Architecture’s fall Monday Night Lecture Series Sept. 13 with a Sam Fox Arts Center Lecture on Graphic Design, Big and Small.

Literary historian Harold Love, the visiting Fannie Hurst Professor of Creative Literature in Washington University’s Department of English in Arts & Sciences for Fall 2004, will speak on Print and Voice at 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 23.