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	C O N T R I B U T O R S
Pitt Magazine June 1996	F E A T U R E S
Pitt Magazine June 1996	THE BEST MEDICINE A look behind the scenes at Pitt's medical school....by Laura Schefler
Artifacts of Life A dynamic museum in Dertoit brings African-American history to life.	ARTIFACTS OF LIFE Under the direction of Kimberly Camp, passage intom the new and ambitious Museum of African and American history meet--the hold of a slave ship....by Vicki Glembocki
	SIGN LANGUAGE An essayist looks for a sign....by Tommy Ehrbar
	HITTING HIS STRIDE Track legend John Woodruff celebrates the 60th anniversary of an amazing Olympic race....by Tommy Ehrbar
	UNDER CONSTRUCTION The Information Superhighway runs right through Pitt....by Mark Collins
A Conduit Attitude Tunneling through Oakland
	D E P A R T M E N T S
	4200 FIFTH AVENUE Hats off! LETTERS Vatican II, wireless achievement, Steel lineage, nuclear discussion, sentimental journey TUCK SHOP The Tea in China, lost and found, and my life as a pigeon THE COMMONS ROOM Mozart and the road ahead... Pitt underground...Maz's homer EXTRA CREDIT Genitics: the family link in abdominal aortic aneurysms Astronomy: What happens to a star when it dies Health: Estrogen and heart disease	PROSPECTUS J. Wray Connolly blends business and academia. CLASSES YOU MAY HAVE MISSED With the Beatles, rock music became an art form. CORNERSTONES A tree in memory...A woman's place...The healing sciences HOMECOMING Class Notes and Spotlights... Alumni Notebook....Edited by Sally Neiser 42ND FLOOR Rub of the Green...by Tommy Ehrbar
	Laura Shefler--("The Best Medicine") Shefler, former Pitt Magazine asociate editor, has returned to the states after spending seven months tooling around Europe where she had her passport stamped in 18 countries. Recently, she accepted a position as editor of Miami magazine at the University of Miami.
	Cheri Smith.--(Cover photograph and "Artifacts of Life") "I don't even know where my passport is," said Smith upon hearing Shefler's bio. "But I just ate a corned beef sandwich, and it was wonderful." A freelance photographer in Ann Arbor, Michigan, some of Smith's past subjects have been the Ebola virus, the core of a nuclear reactor, and a dog in a tuxedo.
	ON THE COVER: At the heart of the work of Kimberly Camp (Arts and Sciences '78) lies the question: "What is African American?" Photo by Cheri Smith.