Duke in the News: Feb. 18, 2003
Scientists Ask U.N. to Ban Some Fishing in Pacific | Duke Admits Transplant Error | U.S. Officials Saying Little About Post-War Plans | Genes Sing New Song, and more...
Tuesday, February 18, 2003
SCIENTISTS ASK U.N. TO BAN SOME FISHING IN
PACIFIC
(San Jose) Mercury News, Feb. 18 -- Marine scientists, including
Larry Crowder of the Duke University Marine Lab, called on the
United Nations Monday to ban the use of longline boat and gill net
fishing in the Pacific Ocean, saying the methods kill not
just
fish, but sea birds, endangered turtles and other animals. ...Full
story
--Also, BBC News: Leatherbacks 'Extinct in 30 Years'
Full story
Financial Times: Plea to Save Leatherback Turtles from
Extinction
Full story
DUKE ADMITS TRANSPLANT ERROR
(Raleigh) News & Observer, Feb. 18 -- Officials at Duke
University Medical Center accepted responsibility Monday for a
"tragic error" that occurred when their doctors transplanted a
heart and lungs into a teenage girl whose blood type didn't match
the donor's. Dr. William Fulkerson, chief executive officer of Duke
Hospital, said officials are continuing their investigation into
the incident. ...
Full story
--Also, Newsday: Transplant Patient Near Death After Error
Full story
(Durham, N.C.) Herald-Sun: Duke Hospital Admits to Botching
Transplant
Full
story
CBS News: Tragic Transplant Mistake
Full story
Duke News: Hospital Implements Additional Transplantation
Safeguards
Full
story
U.S. OFFICIALS SAYING LITTLE ABOUT PLANS FOR POST-WAR
IRAQ
Kansas City Star, Feb. 18 -- An invasion of Iraq "could backfire,"
said Duke public policy professor Bruce Jentleson, a former arms
negotiator in the Middle East and State Department planner. "It
could feed negative reactions in other parts of the Middle East and
inspire terrorists who are enemies of modernization." ...
Full story
GENES SING NEW SONG
Nature, Feb. 16 -- A Duke University scientists has zeroed in on
the set of brain genes that enable parrots and songbirds to mimic
tunes. ...Full
story
DUKE TIGHTENS CAMPUS SECURITY
(Durham, N.C.) Herald-Sun, Feb. 18 -- Duke University has been
working to tighten campus security in response to the Department of
Homeland Security's raising the terrorist threat level from
"elevated" to "high," Duke Police Chief Clarence F. Birkhead said
in a statement released Monday. (See second news brief.) ...Full
story
PRINCETON JOINS OTHER SCHOOLS IN SUPPORTING U-M
ADMISSIONS POLICY
Detroit Free Press, Feb. 18 -- Princeton has joined
several other universities, including Duke, in backing a legal
brief that supports the University of Michigan's admissions
policies, which take race into consideration. ...Full
story
OP-ED: WHAT'S DISRUPTING CLASSROOMS?
(Raleigh) News & Observer, Feb. 18 -- Op-ed about the use of
Ritalin to treat hyperactive children by Paul Brinich, a clinical
psychologist at UNC-Chapel Hill and the UNC-Duke University
Psychoanalytic Education Program. ...
Full story
SAME-SEX COUPLES REDEFINING FAMILY LAW IN
USA
USA Today, Feb. 18 -- Duke University law dean Katharine Bartlett
says judges have struggled with nontraditional families since
divorce rates jumped three decades ago. "Courts aren't trying to
contribute to the demise of traditional families," she said. ...
Full story
EDITORIAL: WHAT YOU CAN DO
(Durham, N.C.) Herald-Sun, Feb. 18 -- Editorial praises plan by the
city's Department of Housing and Community Development, with
assistance from Duke University, to marshal volunteers to help
compile a more accurate inventory of vacant houses in Durham. ...Full
story
POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS MORE COMMON IN WOMEN THAN
MEN
Reuters, Feb. 18 -- Dr. Jonathan Davidson, director of the Anxiety
and Traumatic Stress Program at Duke University, comments on a new
finding that women are more likely than men to suffer long-term
posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after a traumatic injury.
...
Full story
GLORIOUS 'CREATION'
(Raleigh) News & Observer, Feb. 17 -- Haydn's orchestration,
and conductor Rodney Wynkoop's demands for lightness and clarity,
made for one of the North Carolina Symphony's best showings at Duke
Chapel recently. Wynkoop also had at his disposal the estimable
forces of the Choral Society of Durham and the Duke University
Chorale. ...
Full story
FORMER CHESCO D.A. TAKES OATH AS STATE SUPREME COURT
JUSTICE
(Pottstown, Penn.) Mercury, Feb. 18 -- Devon lawyer William Lamb, a
Duke University graduate, said that, as a "practitioner," he brings
a different perspective to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. ...
Full story
BENJAMIN YOUNGER DIES; REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE
PIONEER
Birmingham (Ala.) News, Feb. 18 -- Dr. J. Benjamin Younger, 65, an
internationally known authority on reproductive medicine who
completed his residency and fellowship at Duke University Medical
Center in 1968, died of natural causes Saturday while on a trip to
New Orleans. ...
Full story
