Duke in the News: March 27, 2003
War Worries Temper March Madness | Fossil Find Doubles Primate Age | Probes Into Jesica's Death Fault Hospital, and more...
Thursday, March 27, 2003
WAR WORRIES TEMPER MARCH MADNESS
New York Times, March 27 -- As the Blue Devils prepare to face the
University of Kansas tonight in the N.C.A.A. tournament's third
round, March Madness is not the unadulterated revel one might
expect. ...
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--Also, Chicago Tribune: U.S. Casualties Could Result in 'Gut
Check' (Peter Feaver comments)
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New York Observer: Off the Record (Susan Tifft comments; see second
item.)
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story
(Russia) Izvestia: Q&A with Peter Feaver: We Fear Losing the
War, Not Casualties
(Article not available online; full text upon request.)
(London) Guardian: Comment: Onward Christian soldiers? (Stanley
Hauerwas)
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WESH.com: Col. Robert Owen, Military Analyst (Duke alumnus)
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(Fort Worth) Star Telegram: Losses May Sink Public's High
Expectations (Feaver comments)
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story
FOSSIL FIND DOUBLES PRIMATE AGE
UPI, March 26 -- Paleontologists from Duke and the Egyptian
Geological Museum in Cairo have unearthed tiny 40-million-year-old
fossil fragments that double the suspected age of one of the three
major lines of primates -- and fuel the debate over the time and
place of human origins. ...Full
story
--Also, Science Now: Gnawing Away at Primate Evolution
PROBES INTO JESICA'S DEATH FAULT HOSPITAL
Charlotte Observer, March 27 -- Two regulatory agencies have cited
Duke University Hospital for multiple deficiencies after
investigations stemming from last month's death of Jesica
Santillan, who received a heart-lung transplant of the wrong blood
type. ...
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--Also, (Raleigh) News & Observer: Duke Hospital Probe
Widens
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Wall Street Journal: Hospitals Encourage Staff To Report Medical
Errors (available to subscribers)
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New York Times: Democrat Pulls Her Support for Senate Malpractice
Bill
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WRAL.com: State Report Reveals 'Serious' Flaws at Duke University
Hospital
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SYSTEM TO TRACK FOREIGN STUDENTS BASHED
UPI, March 26 -- A computer system used at Duke and other schools
to track foreign students in the United States isn't working,
critics said Wednesday at a hearing by the Senate Committee on
Science. ...Full
story
--Also, Toledo Blade: Editorial: The Student Visa Mess
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'SECRET EMPIRE': A REVOLUTION IN SNOOPING
New York Times Book Review, March 23 -- Duke historian Alex Roland
reviews Philip Taubman's "Secret Empire," which chronicles the
development of overhead reconnaissance, both aerial and
space-based. ...
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WORKSHOP TODAY ON VIOLENCE
(Durham, N.C.) Herald-Sun, March 27 -- The Durham Crisis Response
Center and the Duke Divinity Women's Center is sponsoring a
workshop for clergy, seminarians and other church leaders in how to
respond to victims of domestic and sexual violence. ...Full
story