Duke in the News: Feb. 13, 2003
America on the Verge | Activists Hope to Shield Iraq | A Child's Safety Blanket | Space Shuttle 'Grinch' Cites Duty to Truth | Duke Alumni Aid Youth Programs, and more...
Thursday, February 13, 2003
COVER STORY: AMERICA ON THE VERGE
Maclean's, Feb. 10 -- Peter Feaver, a political science professor
at Duke University and a former director of defense policy and arms
control for the National Security Council, says Bush and his circle
of advisers are watching public opinion but aren't basing their
decisions on it. ...
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ACTIVISTS HOPE TO SHIELD IRAQ
(Raleigh) News & Observer, Feb. 13 -- Joy S. Johnson of Durham
is scheduled to leave with the Christian Peacemaker Team for a
two-week trip to Iraq on Feb. 24. She has taken this semester off
from her Duke University graduate studies in immunology to get more
involved in the push for a peaceful resolution to the Iraqi
conflict. ...
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--Also, (Durham, N.C.) Herald-Sun: Group Plans to Protest War as
`Human Shields' in Iraq
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A CHILD'S SAFETY BLANKET
ABC News, Feb. 10 -- As the White House makes its case for
war against Iraq, experts say parents will have to present one at
home, and to a smaller and much younger audience -- their
children. John Fairbank, co-director of the UCLA-Duke University
National Center for Child Traumatic Stress in Los Angeles,
comments. ...
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SPACE SHUTTLE 'GRINCH' CITES DUTY TO
TRUTH
(Raleigh) News & Observer, Feb. 13 -- Alex Roland isn't afraid
to say what he really thinks about the space shuttle, even as the
nation mourns Columbia's lost astronauts. The Duke University
professor of history and one-time NASA historian describes the
shuttle program as "boring" and says it ought to be scrapped. ...
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DUKE ALUMNI AID YOUTH PROGRAMS
(Durham, N.C.) Herald-Sun, Feb. 13 -- Duke's Neighborhood
Partnership Initiative will have $500,000 more to devote to
programs that keep kids off the streets, thanks to two Duke alumni.
(See second news brief.) ...Full
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GIRL'S MIRACLE FLEETING
(Raleigh) News & Observer, Feb. 13 -- Jessica Santillan
received a long-awaited heart-lung transplant at Duke University
Medical Center last week. But today, the 17-year-old Franklin
County girl is more at risk than ever. ...
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CARDIOLOGISTS LOVE LIVE-ACTION MRIs
(Austin) News 8, Feb. 12 -- Magnetic Resonance Imaging, or MRI, has
been around for 20 years, but it wasn't until a few years ago that
engineers developed scanners fast enough to get accurate images of
moving tissue. Duke University's Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
Center is the first in the nation to use cardiovascular MRI. ...
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FCC MEDIA RULES UP FOR REVISION
San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 13 -- The FCC hopes to decide by late
spring on a new paradigm of media regulation. Hearings are in the
works in Seattle and at Duke University. ...
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