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Winter 2005
Volume 25 • Number 2
On the Cover
During six months in Afghanistan, embedded reporter Ben Fenwick went on every mission Army authorities would allow, including this combat resupply helicopter flight along the Pakistan border.
Photo by Maj. Eric Bloom

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

DATELINE: THE WORLD’S HOT ZONES

They are a special breed, journalists who venture into the most hostile places armed only with pen, paper and the determination to get the story—and several of them are Sooner J-grads.

  Embedded In Afghanistan
The hottest war may be in Iraq, but Afghanistan is still very dangerous duty for U.S. forces, as reporter Ben Fenwick discovered in his tour with soldiers of Oklahoma’s 45th.

OPENING A NEW ECONOMIC FRONTIER

OU’s Technology Transfer initiative is making it possible for academic scientists and engineers to take their discoveries and inventions from the laboratory into the marketplace.

ADOPTED BY A DIVA

Dazzling aspiring vocal performers with a mixture of expertise, wisdom and rollicking good humor, opera great Marilyn Horne makes her twice-yearly visits experiences to be remembered.

BEWARE THE FLYING PUMPKINS

It may look like fun and games—pumpkins propelled through the air by wacky contraptions—but the student engineers are deadly serious about their introductory term projects.

OU BASKETBALL’S "MAMA DRAKE"

Think you know a lot about Sooner basketball? Just don’t play trivia with 96-year-old Myrtle Drake, who was a coach’s wife and super fan before you were born—and recalls every detail.

 

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