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Kids and sports : from infant to athlete
Forty million children play organized sports. Viewers of this exciting new program see children from toddlers through puberty illustrate just how fun or frustrating playing sports can be. They watch as physical, social and emotional development follow a sequence that adults can't speed up. They see just how skills in sports progress from birth through puberty. They marvel at the intellectual side of sports - from score keeping to game strategizing. The program guides viewers through the dangers of the over-scheduled, over-pressured, over-trained child.
Streaming Video
Cracking the advertising code
If you think 'bait and switch' is a fishing tip, you have a lot to learn about advertising! Viewers will learn how to make good buying decisions by spotting advertising ploys including: celebrity endorsement, customer testimony, emotional appeal, unproven claims, urgency and more.
Streaming Video
Hard as nails
Investigating an abandoned amusement park where several dead bodies have been found, former private investigator Joe Kurtz and his parole officer find themselves targeted by numerous adversaries.
Book
Madame Bovary, c'est moi
Once upon a time, fiction required the suspension of disbelief.
Journal Article
Darwin's blade
Darwin Minor is an expert in accident reconstruction, but a series of seemingly random, or artfully staged, fatal car wrecks has him puzzled. Why would anyone commit fraud at the cost of his own life?
Book
Faculty uneasy about working at UW after cuts, tenure changes
The chemistry and chemical engineering departments are growing and the teaching and research facilities are superior to those in the 1960s-era chemistry building at UW-Madison although the Madison building is due for a $108 million upgrade in coming years pending final approval by the Legislature, he said. A veteran chemistry faculty member said it's the only time he can remember the department losing two tenured professors in a year, and that continued state budget cuts and Legislative measures that faculty feel threaten their academic freedom could lead to more departures, with increased difficulty replacing them.
Newsletter
Regents keep tenure, again vote down proposal to fight changes
The UW System Board of Regents approved the transfer at a Friday meeting but again voted down a separate proposal to urge lawmakers against changing state law to make it easier for the board to lay off or fire tenured faculty.
Newsletter