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Free Press Under Pressure

As the Daily Free Press turns forty, former staffers look back with gratitude and ahead with anxiety| Cover Story

Start-up Ville A dozen young companies are learning to fly

Life
Goes On Why some people live longer than others

Parting Gifts Med students learn how to honor the dead

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BUniverse Videos

Especially for Women: How to Get Paid What You Are Worth Evelyn Murphy addresses gender and wage parity in the workplace, arguing for ways to close the wage gap.

Pandemics, Public Health, and Political Transition Richard E. Besser shares the practical and political lessons he learned while managing the federal government’s response to the H1N1 influenza outbreak.

Why Care? A Conversation with Timberland President and CEO Jeffrey Swartz about Our Collective Responsibility

Alumni Events | Or click here for just campus events

BU Brussels: Wine Tasting Night
November 19
Join fellow international alumni for this special event—an opportunity to learn about wine and reminisce about your BU experience!

5th Annual MET Night at Agganis Arena
November 21
Join the MET community and root for the reigning National Championship Boston University Terriers as they take on the University of New Hampshire. Before the game, enjoy food and drinks and support a good cause.

Red Hot Hockey Pep Rally
November 28
Red Hot Hockey is back! An old rivalry reignites this November as your Terriers hit the ice against Cornell University in an NCAA Division I men’s ice hockey match-up at New York City’s Madison Square Garden!

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Alumni Notes | Or click here to submit a note

Domenic Cretara (CFA’68,’70) of Long Beach, Calif., is the resident director of the California State University International Program in Florence, Italy. He showed his paintings and drawings in a CSU exhibition in Florence this past summer. E-mail Domenic at domnbetty@aol.com.

Wally Radjenovic (ENG’92) of Toledo, Ohio, and his wife, Maia, celebrated their 10th anniversary in June. They have three sons. Wally also celebrated the fourth anniversary of owning and managing his company, Northwestern Ohio Foam Products. E-mail him at wr@nofp.com.

David Bettencourt (COM’01) of Providence, R.I., announces the release of his second feature-length documentary, On the Lake: Life and Love in a Distant Place, which tells the true story of the tuberculosis epidemic in the 1900s and globally today. The film had its world premiere in February at the Stadium Theatre in Woonsocket, R.I., and will screen around the world. Visit www.onthelakemovie.com

Nicole (Williams) Adamowicz (CAS’99, SED’99, GRS’01) of Waltham, Mass., and her husband, Matthew, welcomed their first child, James Wyatt, on February 7, 2009.