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Here's the latest issue of eDuke media clips -- your daily summary of news media coverage about Duke.

HEADLINES:
Op-Ed: Methodists Lock Door Against Gay Pastors - Orlando Sentinel
Technology Customizes Kids by Sex - Baltimore Sun
Brigham's Top Doctor Heads South - Boston Globe
After Renovation, On-Campus Home Will Be Fit for a President - News & Observer
Surprise Gifts for This Year's Graduates: Job Offers - Wall St. Journal
Few Blacks Attend Private Schools - News & Observer
Discovering a Niche - San Antonio Business Journal

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OP-ED: METHODISTS LOCK DOOR AGAINST GAY PASTORS
Orlando Sentinel, May 11 -- "[O]n the question of gay ordination there are two Methodist Churches rather than one," says Duke Divinity School professor David C. Steinmetz. (Free registration required.)
http://tinyurl.com/yv3cu
--Also, Denver Post: Conservative Methodists Threaten to Break Away (William Quick, a Methodist minister and a visiting professor at the Duke Divinity School, comments)
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~11676~2133625,00.html

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TECHNOLOGY CUSTOMIZES KIDS BY SEX
Baltimore Sun, May 10 -- "We are already sliding down a slope," said Amy Laura Hall, an assistant professor of theological ethics at Duke, commenting on selective reproductive technologies that can be used to select gender.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/bal-te.ms.pgd10may10,0,5916854.story?coll=bal-news-nation

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BRIGHAM'S TOP DOCTOR HEADS SOUTH
Boston Globe, May 11 -- A renowned cardiovascular researcher, Dr. Victor Dzau is North Carolina-bound, ready to take the helm at Duke University Health System on July 1. (See second item.)
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/health_science/articles/2004/05/11/former_bruins_star_invests_in_home_style_care/

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AFTER RENOVATION, ON-CAMPUS HOME WILL BE FIT FOR A PRESIDENT
(Raleigh) News & Observer, May 11 -- Come December, Duke University's ninth president, Richard Brodhead, could leave home each morning, pick a route through the trees that will surround his campus mansion and walk to his office.
http://www.newsandobserver.com/news/story/3578524p-3180607c.html

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SURPRISE GIFTS FOR THIS YEAR'S COLLEGE GRADUATES: JOB OFFERS
Wall Street Journal, May 11 -- Among those who will benefit from hiring increases is Randy Hunt, who graduated this past Sunday from Duke. He will join a management-trainee program at Norfolk Southern Corp. (Link for subscribers; full text e-mailed upon request to eduke@duke.edu.)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB108422634409607317,00.html

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FEW BLACKS ATTEND PRIVATE SCHOOLS
(Raleigh) News & Observer, May 10 -- Research by Charles Clotfelter, a Duke University professor who has written a book on the rise and retreat of school desegregation, illustrates how few minorities have enrolled in once all-white private schools.
http://www.newsandobserver.com/brown/story/3576517p-3178793c.html --Also, Los Angeles Daily News: Forced Desegregation Petered Out Over Years (Clotfelter)
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200~20954~2136263,00.html

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DISCOVERING A NICHE
San Antonio Business Journal, May 11 -- The tool that former Duke professor Ted Hall constructed to make a plywood boat proved to be the genesis of a 30-employee company that generated $5 million in revenue last year.
http://sanantonio.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/moneycenter/story.html?id=2825

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ON THE AIR
Law professor Scott Silliman, director of Duke University's Center on Law, Ethics and National Security, is appearing live on CNN and CNN International cable channels today. He will provide commentary as Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba, who wrote the report on Iraqi prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib, testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee. Silliman is also scheduled to talk about developments in the abuse cases on ABC News Nightline Wednesday night.
http://www.cnn.com

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