Duke in the News: March 19, 2003
Key Advisers See Iraq War as Test Case | Economy in the Line of Fire | Debating the Legality of War | Duke's Sanford Institute Receives a $1 Million Gift, and more...
Wednesday, March 19, 2003
KEY ADVISERS SEE IRAQ WAR AS TEST CASE
(San Jose, Calif.) Mercury News, March 19 -- "This is not just
about Iraq," says Bruce Jentleson, director of the Terry Sanford
Public Policy Institute at Duke University, commenting on the
perceived demonstrative effect of a war. ...Full
story
ECONOMY IN THE LINE OF FIRE
Chicago Tribune, March 19 -- In the job market the war could cause
higher unemployment if U.S. forces are not successful quickly. To
Campbell Harvey, professor of international finance at Duke
University, the longer the war persists, the more severe the
economy's troubles will become. ...
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DEBATING THE LEGALITY OF WAR
CBC's The Current, March 19 -- Duke law professor Michael Byers
joined a discussion of the legality of war with Iraq, broadcast
this morning on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. (Audio
available.) ...Listen
DUKE'S SANFORD INSTITUTE RECEIVES A $1 MILLION
GIFT
(Durham, N.C.) Herald-Sun, March 19 -- Duke University's Terry
Sanford Institute of Public Policy will receive $1 million from the
Coca-Cola Foundation to fund the Multimedia and Instructional
Technology Center at the Sanford Institute's new building. ...Full
story
GERON SOARS ON CANCER RESEARCH NEWS
Newsday, March 19 -- The stock price of struggling Geron Corp.
skyrocketed Tuesday after the company said its experimental cancer
vaccine showed promise in fighting all types of the disease. The
company is conducting experiments at Duke University Medical Center
with the vaccine on colon cancer patients to determine whether the
treatment is safe. ...
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QUAKES SHAKE WATER FROM SOIL
Nature, March 19 -- Earthquakes shake water out of sodden soils,
new research suggests, possibly explaining why streams flow more
quickly after a big tremor. "It's one of those curiosities of
nature that has preoccupied people for years," says geologist
Stuart Rojstaczer of Duke University. ...Full
story
A LIFE OF LETTERS CUT SHORT
(Raleigh) News & Observer, March 18 -- Author Amanda Davis, who
grew up in Durham, was just stepping into the literary limelight
when she was killed in a plane crash Friday outside Asheville. Her
father, Jim Davis, a Duke neurologist from 1972 to 1992, was
piloting his own plane. ...Full
story
SMALLPOX VACCINE GIVEN TO WORKERS
(Durham, N.C.) Herald-Sun, March 19 -- At Duke, the National
Smallpox Preparedness Program has a goal of vaccinating 120
health-care workers, a spokeswoman said. They are among the first
North Carolinians to get the smallpox vaccine since the
mid-1970s.
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story
ADVENTURES IN DRUMMING
(Raleigh) News & Observer, March 19 -- Triangle Taiko (big
drum) was formed last year by Jason Sass, a Duke University law
student who spent a year in a small Japanese fishing village
teaching English.
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EDITORIAL: HOSPITALS' FAIR PAY
(Raleigh) News & Observer, March 19 -- The state has cut
corners in overseeing Medicaid payments to hospitals, casting a
shadow over their fairness, according to the paper's editorial. The
active role a Greensboro attorney representing Duke and other
hospitals has played in the program for most of a decade
understandably raises eyebrows, the editorial said. ...
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