Duke in the News: June 10, 2004

LAWYERS RAISED CONCERNS ON INTERROGATIONS USA Today, June 10 -- Scott Silliman, a former Air Force attorney who teaches law at Duke University, disputes an interpretation by Pentagon officials regarding how senior military JAGs viewed Guantanamo policy. ...Full story --Also, Philadelphia Inquirer: Some See Torture Memo as Putting GIs at Risk (Free registration required.) Full story

A DAY OF RITUAL AND REMEMBRANCE Washington Post, June 10 -- Just hours before former President Reagan's body reached the Capitol yesterday, Christina Nunez, a Duke University student interning in the office of Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy (D-R.I.), was among those terrified during the evacuation of the Capitol and nearby congressional office buildings. ... Full story --Also, (Raleigh) News & Observer: Can You Avoid Reagan's Fate? (Bryan Alzheimer's Disease Research Center) Full story (Duke) Chronicle: Alzheimer's Research Advances in Wake of Reagan's Struggle Full story

THE BRAIN STORES EMOTIONAL MEMORIES DIFFERENTLY: STUDY (India) WebIndia123.com, June 10 -- Researchers at Duke University have discovered why nostalgia strikes us when we remember an emotional incident. ... Full story

LETTER: LESSONS IN WARTIME LEADERSHIP Newsweek, June 14 -- H. Jefferson Powell, a professor of law and of divinity at Duke, takes an essayist to task for generalizing about theology. (See 17th letter.) ...Full story

NCSU, DUKE TEAM TO WIN SMALLPOX VACCINE GRANT Triangle Business Journal, June 9 -- Researchers at Duke and North Carolina State University have won a two-year, $500,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the high number of side effects caused by a smallpox vaccine. ... Full story

PYRAMIDS AS INCLINED PLANES American Scientist, May-June 2004 -- Henry Petroski, a professor of civil engineering and history at Duke, imagines a more worker-friendly Great Pyramid building process. (Article not available online; faxed upon request to eduke@duke.edu.)

RUBBER, REBELS AND RESENTMENTS Chronicle of Higher Education, June 11 -- The difficult past and uncertain future of the relationship between the United States and Liberia is at the center of two new books, including "Brothers and Strangers" from Duke University Press. ... Full story

ON THE AIR Duke law professor Scott Silliman will be interviewed live on CNN's Headline News between 6 and 6:30 p.m. ET Thursday concerning the Army's decision to give Maj. Gen. George Fay more latitude in his investigation of abuses at Abu Ghraib prison.