Duke in the News: Aug. 6, 2007
Op-Ed: Learning From Bridge Failure | Secret Log at Heart of Wiretap Challenge | Q&A: U.S. System Politicizes War, and more…
Monday, August 6, 2007
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OP-ED: LEARNING FROM BRIDGE FAILURE
Los Angeles Times, Aug. 4 -- In the wake of the Minneapolis bridge collapse, "more careful inspections and more conservative interpretations of their findings may cause some immediate inconveniences, but they will also likely prevent some imminent failures," says Henry Petroski, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Duke. ... Full story
--Also, Discover: The Man Who Predicted the Bridge Collapse. Maybe. ... Full story
SECRET LOG AT HEART OF WIRETAP CHALLENGE
New York Times, Aug. 5 -- Duke law professor Curtis Bradley discusses the prospects for a lawsuit against the Bush administration's warrantless eavesdropping program. (AP story also appeared in the Chicago Tribune and more than 180 other news outlets.) ... Full story
Q&A: U.S. SYSTEM POLITICIZES WAR
(Raleigh) News & Observer, Aug. 5 -- Alex Roland, a Duke professor who studies military history, discusses the lessons that history holds for the war in Iraq, and parallels between Vietnam and Iraq. ... Full story
COMMENTARY: INSURING CHINA'S FUTURE
Wall Street Journal, Aug. 6 -- Researchers Jianguo Xu of Duke and Yaohui Zhao of Peking University have shown how Chinese employers could strengthen the country's weak social security system. (Link to preview and full text for subscribers; e-mailed upon request to dukenews@duke.edu.) ... Preview/full story for subscribers
TUNA SHIFT FROM PET FOOD TO DELICACY AS STOCKS FALL
Reuters, Aug. 5 -- Andre Boustany, a research associate in Duke's Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, reports on the extent to which over-fishing has made Atlantic bluefin tuna a prized delicacy a century after the fish were scorned in Europe as pet food. ... Full story
DUKE SUSPENDS FOOTBALL PLAYER
News & Observer, Aug. 6 -- Duke junior middle linebacker Michael Tauiliili was indefinitely suspended from the Duke football team Sunday following his arrest Saturday on several charges, including driving while impaired and assault. ... Full story
HOSTILITY PUTS MEN'S HEARTS AT RISK
(Tucson) KOLD-TV, HealthDay News, Aug. 3 -- Ten years of frequent hostility and depression may harm men's immune systems and put them at risk for heart disease, a Duke study found. ... Full story
--Also, Reuters: Hostility, Anger Linked to Chronic Inflammation (Stephen Boyle, research associate at Duke University Medical Center) ... Full story
THE DUKE OF CAPE COD BASEBALL
Wellesley (Mass.) Townsman, GateHouse News Service, Aug. 2 -- About to enter his junior year at Duke, Nate Freiman is playing this summer for the Cape Cod League, which bills itself as "the best in amateur baseball." ... Full story
RICH COUNTRIES LIKE BRITAIN BLAMED FOR SPREADING MEASLES, DOCTORS SAY
International Herald Tribune, AP, Aug. 3 -- Doctors fear Britain may be spreading measles to other countries rather than helping to stamp it out. "It's tragic that there is still measles in the U.K.," says Dr. Samuel Katz, co-inventor of the measles vaccine and an infectious diseases specialist at Duke. ... Full story