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Skywatchers brace for a storm of meteors

If astronomers’ predictions are correct – and if Wisconsin gets a break from its chronically cloudy November weather – skywatchers will be in for a rare treat next Tuesday, Nov. 19, as the annual Leonid meteor shower has been upgraded to a show of stormy proportions.

Fall faculty dance concert ‘bound’ to please

New York choreographer Heidi Latsky freely admits to being fearful ever since Sept. 11. To allay those fears, she did what she does best – she made a dance. Bound, the group work she created to help transform fear into positive energy, will be showcased in the UW Fall Faculty Dance Concert Nov. 21-23. Curtain time is 8 p.m. in the Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space in Lathrop Hall, 1050 University Ave.

A spellbindery tale

Walk into Memorial Library. Find a call number on the chart inside the elevator and ride up to a floor. Go to the stacks and ÷ voilˆ! ÷ there are books about the very subject you seek. It’s simple, really, and it’s what we expect of our libraries. But what it takes to get those books on those shelves is anything but simple.

Researchers identify key to cancer cell mobility

In the race to cure cancer, researchers look for roadblocks that could stop cancer in its tracks, preventing it from spreading to other parts of the body. Scientists from UW-Madison may have found that blockade – an enzyme critical to the ability of cells to metastasize, a biological phenomenon by which cells migrate.