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University of Alabama Spring Commencement
Mobile Register – May 24
The names of southwest Alabama graduates of UA appear here, followed by their hometowns…

62 of state’s graduates win Merit scholarships
Birmingham News – May 24 (print version only)
Sixty-two Alabama high school graduates from the Class of 2007 have been named college-sponsored National Merit Scholarship winners.
(Note: Story indicates that 24 of these students have been awarded scholarships from The University of Alabama.)

New diet pill can do job or do a number
Atlanta Journal-Constitution – May 24
…Michael Murphy, an anthropologist at the University of Alabama whose specialty is human nature, said people always have sought "medical explanations for our foibles," and thus he feels the pills "will be a spectacular success"…

'La Boheme' to be simulcast to students
Baltimore (Md.) Sun – May 24
…19 colleges are participating in the project, including Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, the University of Alabama, West Point and the University of Washington…

Election-year posturing threatens future of immigration compromise
Tucson (Ariz.) Citizen – May 24
... as the president's, and we think one reason is all the conflict there," said Carol Cassel, professor of political science at the University of Alabama

MEREDITH CUMMINGS: Watch out for diabetic complications
Tuscaloosa News –May 24
Yanaura, 52, was a University of Alabama photographer and captured nearly every high-profile event held by the university…Yanaura’s life ended with his sudden death Friday morning. The news of his death hit me hard, even though I wasn’t privileged enough to call him a “friend," he was, nonetheless, a member of the club…