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This is Update Weekly, your online audio source of University of Florida news and events for the week beginning Monday, October 8th 2007.

You may think of shedding “crocodile tears” as a way to get sympathy or attention. Now a University of Florida study shows that crocodilian species like alligators and crocodiles actually do cry while they eat. Here’s zoologist Kent Vliet.

Whether choosing a mate or someone to work closely with, trust really matters. Now, University of Florida research finds of all major character traits, people value trustworthiness the most in others.

This is University Update Weekly, your source for University of Florida news and events for the week of October 1st.

From a world of silence to a new outlook on life. That’s the journey of a Florida boy who recently became one of the youngest ever to receive a set of artificial ears. 5-year-old Jorden Flowers of Jacksonville was born without ears or auditory nerves. Medical artists at the University of Florida College of Dentistry fashioned artificial ears for him.

This is University Update Weekly, your source for University of Florida news and events for the week of September 24th.

You won’t have to worry about this car’s driver being distracted by a cell phone or a song on the radio. It doesn’t have a driver. The Navigator, as named by the University of Florida engineers who built it, pilots itself.

UF President Bernie Machen met the media Tuesday to answer questions about the incident Monday where a student was arrested at a speech by U.S. Senator John Kerry.

This is University Update Weekly, your source for University of Florida news and events for the week of September 17th.

The coastline gets the attention when a hurricane’s headed for land, but University of Florida researchers are learning how to better predict where hurricanes will dump the most rain days and hundreds of miles after they come on shore.