Duke in the News: Feb. 4, 2003
Future of the Shuttle Program Is Linked to the Space Station's | A Fading Green Hope for Climate | Review: Loaded Questions | Scholars Adjust to Dual Campus Lives, and more...
Tuesday, February 4, 2003
FUTURE OF THE SHUTTLE PROGRAM IS LINKED TO THE SPACE
STATION'S
New York Times, Feb. 4 -- Alex Roland, a Duke University historian
and space policy analyst, says "There's not much good reason for
the shuttle except to go to the space station, and not much reason
for the station except to give the shuttle a place to go." ...Full
story
--Also, NBC Nightly News: Questioning Merits of Manned Space
Flights
Roland: "Anything that you want to do in space that
you can identify to do, you can do better, more efficiently, more
effectively, and more cheaply with automated spacecraft."
ABC's Nightline: The Loss of the Columbia
Roland: "We have a shuttle program that is
overstressed for being under funded. They're trying to do too
much for the money they have available."
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Boston Globe: Should We Be Up There at All?
Full story
News 14 Carolina: Former Researcher Speaks Out Against NASA
Full story
A FADING GREEN HOPE FOR CLIMATE
U.S. News & World Report, Feb. 10 -- Research from Duke
University delivered an unpleasant wake-up call. ...
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LOADED QUESTIONS
Washington Post, Feb. 2 -- "Evaluating Gun Policy," edited by Phil
Cook of the Sanford Institute and Jens Ludwig, gets a favorable
review. It is being published by Brookings Institution Press
later this month. ...
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SCHOLARS ADJUST TO DUAL CAMPUS LIVES
(Raleigh) News & Observer, Feb. 4 -- The 28 Robertson
Scholars -- half from Duke, half from UNC -- have begun an unusual
experiment known informally as "the switch" -- part of a program
unlike any other merit scholarship in American higher education.
...
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BUILDERS, UNION TEAM UP TO HELP PREVENT
INJURIES
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Feb. 3 -- A recently released Duke
University study of injuries to carpenters in residential
construction in the St. Louis region is the core of an
injury-prevention project that could become a national model. ...
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UNDERSEA DIVING FOUND SAFE FOR OLDER
DIVERS
Science Daily News, Feb. 4 -- Recreational divers who continue to
dive into their later years should be able to continue their hobby
without worrying about being held back solely because of their age,
say Duke University Medical Center researchers. ...
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GRANT FUNDS HELP NCCU, DUKE AID STRUGGLING
PUPILS
(Durham, N.C.) Herald-Sun, Feb.3 -- Grant funds help NCCU, Duke aid
struggling pupils. ...Full
story
A GATHERING OF 'WOMEN TAKING TIME FOR
OURSELVES'
(Raleigh) News & Observer, Feb. 4 - Lovers of the written word
came to a soiree at the John Hope Franklin Center on Duke
University's campus. The event marked the national African-American
Read-In. ...
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BEST BET: PRESIDENTIAL PERSPECTIVE
(Raleigh) News & Observer, Feb. 4 -- Narrated from the multiple
perspectives of Abraham Lincoln and those whose lives he touched,
Adam Braver's book, "Mr. Lincoln's Wars," is a contemporary
collection of 13 stories interweaving fact and fiction to reveal a
man plagued by the raging Civil War and by his own personal grief
over the death of his young son. Braver, a former Duke employee, is
at Duke University today (Feb. 4) to discuss his book. When: 5 p.m.
Where: Rare Book Room, Perkins Library, Duke University, Durham.
Cost: Free. Info: 660-5816.
GOLDBERG NAMED AP ASSISTANT CHIEF IN L.A.
(Durham, N.C.) Herald-Sun, Feb. 4 -- Howard Goldberg,
assistant bureau chief for The Associated Press in Columbus, Ohio,
has been appointed assistant chief in Los Angeles for Southern
California and Nevada. Goldberg, 46, is a native of Cincinnati and
a graduate of Duke University. ...
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