Duke in the News: Sept. 8, 2006
Op-Ed: Bush's End Run Around the Law | Bush Defends Record, Cites Progress in Iraq | Advisers Debate Safety of Mercury in Fillings, and more…
Friday, September 8, 2006
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OP-ED: BUSH'S END RUN AROUND THE LAW
(Newark) Star-Ledger, Sept. 8 -- Congress must reject the Bush administration's proposal for military tribunals to try terrorists, says Duke law professor Erwin Chemerinsky, "if nothing else to help ensure that foreign nations that capture American soldiers feel obliged to provide them all of the protections assured by international law." ... Full story
--Also, (Walnut Creek, Calif.) Contra Costa Times, McClatchy Newspapers: Terrorism Courts Face New Attack (Duke law professor Scott Silliman) ... Full story
Newsday: Tribunal Bill Stalled (Silliman) ... Full story
San Francisco Chronicle: Experts Heap Criticism on Bush Plan to Try Detainees (Silliman) ... Full story
NPR’s Morning Edition: U.S. Acknowledges Existence of Secret CIA Prisons (Silliman) ... Full story
BUSH DEFENDS RECORD, CITES PROGRESS IN IRAQ
NPR's All Things Considered, Sept. 7 -- With a series of speeches on 9/11 this week, President Bush is trying to use the visibility of his office to control what’s on the voters’ minds as we approach the elections, says Duke political science professor David Rohde.
Full story
HEALTH ADVISERS DEBATE SAFETY OF MERCURY IN FILLINGS
Houston Chronicle, Sept. 8 -- A federal review falls short because it doesn't lay out what questions about the safety of mercury dental fillings remain to be answered, said FDA panel member Dr. Larry Goldstein, a Duke professor of medicine. (AP story also appeared on Forbes.com and more than 100 other news outlets.) ... Full story
J&J UNIT ORDERS HEART FAILURE DRUG TEST
The New York Times, Sept. 8 -- Johnson & Johnson's Scios Inc. unit has commissioned the Duke Clinical Research Institute to perform a study of the safety and effectiveness of its heart failure drug Natrecor. (AP story also appeared in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and more than 130 other media outlets.) ... Full story
--Also, Wall Street Journal: J&J Names Institute to Lead Trial of Its Natrecor Heart Drug (Link for subscribers; e-mailed upon request to dukenews@duke.edu.) ... Full story for subscribers
TEAM USA GETS PAST AUSTRALIA IN WARMUP TO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
USA Today, Sept. 8 -- The USA took a 56-49 exhibition victory over Australia at Cameron Indoor Stadium in front of a crowd of 3,297.
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--Also, (Durham) Herald-Sun: The New Class of USA Basketball ... Full story
(Raleigh) News & Observer: U.S. Wins With 'D' ... Full story
Duke Chronicle: Beard Receives Warm Welcome in USA Win ... Full story
A PUBLIC GROWING WEARY
Harvard Political Review, Summer 2006 -- Peter Feaver, a professor of political science at Duke and an expert on public opinion in wartime, is advising the Bush administration on how to retain public support for a war growing increasingly unpopular. ... Full story
A STRETCH TOWARD SCIENCE
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Sept. 4 -- Michael Reed, a mathematics professor at Duke, discusses how advances in biology are pulling math in a new direction. ... Full story
HARVARD, DUKE AND SYRACUSE WILL HELP UPGRADE IAS OFFICERS
Indian Express, Sept. 5 -- Duke will be among U.S. universities offering courses in governance and leadership to India's top bureaucrats so they can better cope with the changing world of policymaking. (Article not available online; e-mailed upon request to dukenews@duke.edu.)
SONGBIRDS AS A MODEL
(Carrboro) WCOM's Radio In Vivo, Sept. 6 -- Duke neurobiologist Erich Jarvis discusses songbirds as a model for studying the neurobiology of vocal learning and communication. (Scroll to bottom for audio link.) ... Listen
ON THE AIR
Several students from Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill who recorded their experiences helping to rebuild New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, along with their adviser, Charlie Thompson, the curriculum and education director of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke, will be guests on "The State of Things" Friday. Listen live at noon or to a rebroadcast at 6 a.m. Saturday on 91.5 WUNC FM, or later to archived web audio. http://wunc.org/tsot
