News, Ideas and Conversations from the University of Pennsylvania Oct. 2, 2008

Balancing act

Penn Pix: Balancing act

Albert Tsang “slacklines” on College Green. Slacklining is a balance sport in which participants walk across nylon webbing stretched tight between two anchor points.

Photo credit: Ko Im

 

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"Right now we have a crisis. They both recognize we have to solve this crisis. There are differences [in their plans] in the longer run."

—Nicholas Souleles, an associate professor of finance at Penn, on Democratic Presidential Nominee Barack Obama and Republican Presidential Nominee John McCain’s response to the nation’s deepening financial crisis. (Philadelphia Daily News, Sept. 23, 2008)