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:: Bracing for the Storms
By Chris Berdik
As our daily lives depend more on satellite communications, looming space storms threaten to wreak havoc. BU researchers are building the first line of defense.

::WEB EXTRA:: Watch short videos of computer simulations created by the Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling

:: Sex, Crime & Videotape
By Taylor McNeil
A filmmaker wins praise for a high-minded look at low-budget art.

::WEB EXTRA:: Watch a trailer of the documentary Pulp Fiction Art: Cheap Thrills and Painted Nightmares.

:: Prayer is Back
Interviews by Edward A. Brown
Photographs by Vernon Doucette

BU students talk about why they pray.

::WEB EXTRA:: Listen to BU students talk about why they pray.

:: Putting the M in MTV
By Taylor McNeil

Rock clubs and boardrooms are part of a long day's work for Amy Doyle (COM'92).

:: Reporting Live from the Nation's Capital
By Vicky Waltz
BU's Washington, D.C., Journalism Program puts students through the Beltway ringer and into some of the most coveted jobs in the business.

::WEB EXTRA:: Learn more about the Washington, D.C., Journalism Program.

 

:: Web Extras ::

Lee McIntyre::VIDEO::
Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus talks about Grameen Bank, which he founded in Bangladesh to help impoverished residents.

Illustration by Edel Rodriguez ::SLIDE SHOW::
Archaeologist William Saturno finds the oldest known rendering of the Maya creation myth.

Illustration by Edel Rodriguez :: LETTERS ::
Read more letters to the editor.

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