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Summer 2006

Volume 26 • Number 4

On the Cover

An image forever seared into the national memory, an unimaginable horror -- and yet one man did see it coming and saved 2,700 lives at the cost of his own.
AP Images photo by Patrick Sison

Editor:
	Carol J. Burr
Associate Editor:
	Lynette Lobban
Art Director:
	George T. Dotson
Staff Photographer:
	Robert Taylor
Publisher:
	The University of Oklahoma Foundation, Inc.
	Ron D. Burton, President

THE MAN WHO PREDICTED 9/11

Rick Rescorla’s heroism in Vietnam and at the World Trade Center is a thing of legend; less known is the fact that this British-born “tough guy” earned two degrees from OU.

COLBERT HACKLER'S KIDS

Twenty-five years after leaving the college classroom, this 88-year-old professor is still passing along his lifelong love of music to a gaggle of violin-toting Norman youngsters.

THE AMBASSADOR AND ME

The launch of Ed Perkins’ biography marked an eight-year, exhaustive collaboration with author Connie Cronley involving mountains of material and travel on two continents.

TRACKING WITH ZIGBEEF

A wireless technology developed and marketed by student entrepreneurs enables ranchers to monitor their herds by means of ear tags containing each animal’s life history.

SOONER IN BAGHDAD

Darren Nance works where th econcept of free elections is virtually unknown; yet in spite of overwhelming difficulties, he remains optimistic about the future of democracy.

SUMMERTIME SCHOLARS

Under names like Horizons Unlimited and Mini College, OU summer programs reach out to the younger set who want something more than the traditional camp experience.

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