Duke in the News: Jan. 17, 2003
Duke Fund-Raiser Tops Elite $2 Billion Mark | Bush Enters the Fray Over Malpractice | Nicotine Enhances Memory, Study Finds | Canadian Seals Hit by Thinning Ice Cover, and more...
Friday, January 17, 2003
DUKE FUND-RAISER TOPS ELITE $2 BILLION
MARK
Charlotte Observer, Jan. 17 -- Duke University has become the fifth
American university -- and the first outside the Northeast and
California -- to raise more than $2 billion in a single
fund-raising campaign. ...
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--Also, News & Observer: Duke Reaches Lofty Goal
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Herald-Sun: Duke at $2B Goal & Counting
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story
Orange County (Calif.) Register: Duke University Fund-Raiser Tops
$2B
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BUSH ENTERS THE FRAY OVER MALPRACTICE
New York Times, Jan. 17 -- Lawmakers could do more to reduce
malpractice insurance premiums by improving the structure of the
insurance marketplace, said Frank A. Sloan, an economics professor
at Duke University who specializes in health policy and management.
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NICOTINE ENHANCES MEMORY, STUDY FINDS
(Toronto) Globe & Mail, Jan. 17 -- While sucking on a cigarette
definitely is bad for your health, numerous non-smokers may find
themselves some day being prescribed nicotine patches to combat
Alzheimer's disease. In a soon-to-be-published study, scientists at
Duke University will describe how they tested the patches on senior
men and women to counter deteriorating memories. ...
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CANADIAN SEALS HIT BY THINNING ICE COVER -
REPORT
Reuters News, Jan. 16 -- An activist group opposed to the coastal
seal hunt has issued a report -- written with three members of Duke
University's Marine Laboratory -- saying climate change means the
ice cover in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and off the province of
Newfoundland had been much smaller than average in six of the last
seven years. ...
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--Also, CBC News: Melting Ice on East Coast Threatens Seals:
Report
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TOO MUCH TO LOSE IN HEALTH DISPUTE
(Durham, N.C.) Herald-Sun, Jan. 17 -- Editorial about how Duke
University Health System and the State Employees Health Plan need
to work out a solution to the impasse they've reached on a health
plan proposal to reduce the amount it pays the hospital for some
services. ...Full
story
WAR AND THE POLITICS OF COUNTRY MUSIC
WUNC-FM, Jan. 17 -- A local report during Morning Edition featured
a preview of "Forgotten Soldier Boy: War and the Politics of
Country Music," an illustrated lecture to be given later today at
Duke by cultural critic David Whisnant. It's part of "The
Arts in Times of War" series sponsored by the Institute of the Arts
and the Franklin Humanities Institute. (Story not online; Web site
provided.) ...Web site
SUIT VS. STUDENT AT DUKE FRAT CHARGES
RAPE
(Durham, N.C.) Herald-Sun, Jan. 17 -- Using an obscure and almost
unheard of common-law legal mechanism, a former Duke University
student is suing another student and Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity
on grounds of "civil seduction" and assault. ...Full
story
ALUM RETURNS AS FEATURED SPEAKER AT TOLERANCE
CONFERENCE
Chattanoogan.com, Jan. 17 -- Duke alum Nedra Campbell came home to
Chattanooga as the featured speaker for the 2003 Tolerance
Conference at the Chattanooga African American Museum. She returned
as an author of the just-published guide to the American legal
system, "More Justice, More Peace." ...Full
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NEW SHAW LEADER LONGER PREPARED FOR JOB
(Raleigh) News & Observer, Jan. 16 -- Shaw University trustees
offered Clarence Newsome, the first black student to give a Duke
commencement address and a former Duke faculty member, the
presidency Tuesday. Newsome currently serves on Duke's board of
trustees. ...
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PARLOR CONCERT TO FEATURE FAMILY
(Durham, N.C.) Herald-Sun, Jan. 17 -- Jonathan Bagg, a member of
Duke University's music faculty, and his teenage children will kick
off this year's Parlor Concerts on Sunday, with a performance of
chamber music at the historic Burnside residence in Hillsborough.
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UNUSUAL ALLIANCE FORMING TO REIN IN COLLEGE
SPORTS
New York Times, Jan. 17 -- An alliance of university professors and
the boards of major universities, frequent adversaries whose merger
is akin to the Hatfields and the McCoys joining forces, could
represent the most serious attempt yet to take on the modern
American monolith of intercollegiate athletics. ...
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