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Posted by Pamela Harris on November 4, 2009 at 9:51 AM Posted in Events , General News , Swarthmore Carpenter ants and woodboring beetle larvae are the primary diet of Pileated Woodpeckers and the answer to one of the library scavenger hunt questions.

This summer, there must have been a dozen patches around the tiny borough of Narberth, Pa., sporting huge sunflowers.

October was the deadliest month in the war in Afghanistan, but it's been ages since I saw anyone protesting the military industrial complex.

Ruth and James Weir stand in front of the Greek Revival farmhouse where they reared five children while Mr.

Eleven people blocking the office to a major Philadelphia-based insurer were arrested yesterday while participating in a nonviolent protest at Market Street near 19th, police said.

Cathy Finley is the owner of Finely A Knitting Party, a knitting store in Swarthmore, Pa.

Posted by John Perazzo on Oct 21st, 2009 and filed under Discover the Networks .

John Alston is an avid cyclist. With a tailwind, he can pedal from Chester to Swarthmore - just over two miles - in about six minutes.

Pennsylvania is joining 15 states that have banned dishwasher detergents containing the compound.

Gordon Hershey sits by the window of the hospital room with its view of the changing leaves.

The latest exhibition at the Schuylkill Nature Center should be seen as far in advance of its Nov.

One of the many advantages of having your own garden is that you don't have to consult with a committee before you make any changes, move any plants or decide to rip out something that no longer pleases you.

Clark Linderman of Swarthmore, a self-employed contractor, has had a home-equity line of credit from Chase for nearly four years, about as long as he and his wife have owned their house.

My husband's grandparents used to pay him a dollar an hour to nap. Tad Friend's parents tried to entice their three children into "sunnier moods" with what they called "Cheerful Money," a 25-cent reward dropped into a glass jar whenever "one of us demonstrated good humor under duress or was spontaneously helpful." Using cash as a ...

The troupe's clown/gymnast actors get physical, and original, for the Live Arts premiere, "Welcome to Yuba City." Yee-haw! By Wendy Rosenfield For The Inquirer These are busy days for Pig Iron Theatre Company's Quinn Bauriedel - as are most days for most members of Pig Iron, currently one of Philadelphia's most successful cultural exports.

Our daughter, Jennifer Baker-Salisbury, who lives in Swarthmore, Pa., was the first to witness the horrific accident in which Mairin Din was so badly injured.

Swarthmore College, perennially ranked among the top liberal arts colleges, was among a select few to replace loans with grants to 50 percent of its 1,500 students as the endowment peaked at $1.4 billion two years ago.

When Phoebe Snetsinger was killed at age 68 in a car accident in Madagascar in 1999, she had seen more different kinds of birds than anyone ever - 8,674 out of 10,223 species, says Olivia Gentile in Life List .

Both experiments demonstrated subtractive reductions in apparent speed. In experiments 1 and 3 discrimination thresholds were measured for optic flow speed while walking and while standing.

17, 1959, Western Springs, Ill., U.S. Main American novelist and essayist whose sprawling, multilayered novels about contemporary America elicited critical acclaim.