Duke in the News: March 7, 2003
Blix, Powell Getting Testy Over Iraq | Students Learn About Importance Of Government | Organ Network Nixes Deviation From Policy |Vintage Talent Finds New Use, and more...
Friday, March 7, 2003
BLIX, POWELL GETTING TESTY OVER IRAQ
Newsday, March 7 -- Blix and Powell "have different constituencies
and different responsibilities and different levels of evidence,"
said Bruce Kuniholm, a professor of public policy and history at
Duke University. "That's how I would explain their differences."
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MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS LEARN ABOUT IMPORTANCE OF
GOVERNMENT
Asheville (N.C.) Citizen-Times, March 7 -- A project to teach
students about the importance of civic participation in their
government has Asheville Middle School eighth-graders thinking big.
Called Discovering How Moral Courage is Demonstrated in City and
County Government, the semester-long effort is funded by a $3,500
grant from the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. ...Full
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ORGAN NETWORK NIXES DEVIATION FROM POLICY
(Durham, N.C.) Herald-Sun, March 6 -- Responding to Jesica
Santillan's death, the nation's steward of donated organs strongly
reminded its regional agencies that patients must first appear on a
special eligibility list before an organ can go to them. ...Full
story
--Also, Kansas City Star: The Issue of Brain Death Can Divide
Doctors and Families Torn Between Hopes and Fears
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story
Columbia (Mo.) Daily Tribune: Column: Jesica's Case Offers
Potential Cure to Complicated Malpractice Debate
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story
Dallas Morning News: Senators Again Dodge Immigrant Care
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Suburban Chicago News: Editorial: The Need for Tort Reform
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Charlotte Observer: Mexican Village Was Ready, But Jesica's Funeral
Not to Be
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VINTAGE TALENT FINDS NEW USE
(Raleigh) News & Observer, March 7 -- The New Horizons Band,
organized by Duke University's Institute for Learning in
Retirement, has resurrected aspiring musicians eager to blow horns
and beat drums in their twilight years. ...
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HOLY FLASHBACK, BATMAN
Toledo (Ohio) Blade, March 7 -- After hearing for years that he
resembled Batman, Toledo native and Duke grad Jack Brewer finally
has the chance to prove it. Brewer, 34, stars in CBS' Return to the
Batcave: The Misadventures of Adam and Burt, which airs at 9 p.m.
Sunday. ...
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DUKE CONSERVATIVES' PUSH PUTS BOMBER IN
SPOTLIGHT
(Durham, N.C.) Herald-Sun, March 7 -- It seems all the attention
Duke's conservative students gave Capitol-bomber Laura Whitehorn
may have backfired. (See second item in Political Buzz column.)
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FOR SHORT KIDS, EXTRA HEIGHT COMES AT A
COST
DrKoop.com, March 6 -- Dr. Mary Lee, an associate professor of
pediatrics at Duke University Medical Center wrote an editorial
accompanying a new study in The New England Journal of Medicine on
a height-enhancing hormone. ...Full
story
EXERCISE YOUR SENSES WITH NEUROBICS
Philadelphia Inquirer, March 6 -- Lawrence C. Katz, a professor of
neurobiology at Duke University Medical Center, based his
"neurobics" exercises on laboratory experiments that are helping to
explain how the brain rewires itself to benefit from new
experiences. ...Full
story
FARMER QUITS AFTER SOUL-SEARCHING
(Raleigh) News & Observer, March 7 -- The science of making
cheese fascinates Marion Pierce, who previously worked at Duke
University Medical Center as a clinical dietitian in the critical
care unit. To hear her talk, it's hard to believe she's really
going to quit the goat cheese business that has become her passion.
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WEIGHT, WEIGHT, DO TELL ME
(Raleigh) News & Observer, March 6 -- Fat creeps up on
us. Most of us gain a pound or two every year, says Dr. Howard
Eisenson, director of the Duke Diet & Fitness Center -- not
enough to notice at the time, maybe, but enough to add up to a real
problem as we age. ...
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LIBRARIANS AS FBI EXTENSION AGENTS
CounterPunch, March 6 -- David H. Price, an anthropologist at St.
Martin's College, comments on the Patriot Act. His latest
book, "Threatening Anthropology: McCarthyism and the FBI's
Surveillance of Activist Anthropologists," will be published by
Duke University Press this fall. ...Full
story
DE-EVOLUTION AND RE-EVOLUTION
Sci-Fi Today, March 7 -- Duke professor Mary Eubanks summarized her
findings on corn in the book "Corn in Clay" and founded a new
high-tech startup to commercialize the "new" species of corn she
had "re-evolved". ...Full
story
GOVERNOR NEEDS TO RETHINK HIS SOLUTION
Portland Tribune, March 7 -- William B. Conerly, chairman of the
board of the Cascade Policy Institute who holds a doctorate in
economics from Duke, comments on Oregon's budget issues from his
vantage point as a member of Gov. Ted Kulongoski's Council of
Economic Advisors. ...
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