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A return to Buff country

As a child, Deborah Fowlkes splashed in the CU engineering school fountain on hot summer nights to cool down while her father, applied math professor Irving Weiss, worked in his office. The night watchman flicked the lights to tell her it was time to go home.
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You can never be too smart or too thin

Runners line up at the start of the Bolder Boulder, an annual Memorial Day 10k that celebrated its 32nd year in May.

A couple of years ago a Forbes magazine survey concluded that Boulder was the smartest city in the country. Now comes word from the Gallup Poll that Boulder is the second thinnest.
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“Top Chef” sizzles in Boulder

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Boulder chef Hosea Rosenberg (EngrPhys’97) became a “Top Chef” in February when he won Bravo TV’s reality competition, completing a 12-month season and beating out 16 others from around the country to win $100,000.
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The Old Main bell

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The Old Main bell joined a cacophony of bells tolling 150 times on Feb. 10, 2009, in celebration of  Boulder’s sesquicentennial anniversary. For decades the Old Main bell rang between class periods and for home football victories. After a wild night of celebratory ringing following a win over the Colorado School of Mines in 1926, the bell cracked. As a
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