At nearby Temple University in Philadelphia, several of the students are wearing T-shirts or sweatshirts with "Temple" written on it - they're clearly proud to be here.

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But David Kairys, who teaches law at Temple University in Philadelphia, thinks differently.

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Such citizen journalism is in some cases happening almost accidentally, said Susan Jacobson, an assistant professor at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who researches the impact of technology on journalism.

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"'Trillion' does seem to have much more currency than it used to, probably because of the costs of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and the budget and deficit, " says John Allen Paulos a professor of mathematics at Temple University in Philadelphia.

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"In some cases, we can get four football fields of skin out of one baby foreskin, " said Dr. James McGuire, head of wound management at the Foot and Ankle Institute at the School of Podiatric Medicine at Temple University, in Philadelphia.

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"We know that excess body weight adversely affects every organ system in the body, " says Dr. Gary Foster, director of Temple University's Center for Obesity Research and Education in Philadelphia.

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Beasley, a legendary Philadelphia-based trial lawyer, who is the namesake of the Beasley School of Law at Temple University.

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