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Duke in the News: July 13, 2004

Butterfly Beauty Is All in the Genes | For the Record: Double-Jointed Myth Debunked | Op-Ed: Teachers Need 20 Workdays, and more

BUTTERFLY BEAUTY IS ALL IN THE GENES (Australia) ABC Science Online, July 13 -- Butterflies and moths owe their beautiful and diverse wing patterns to genes that were switched on at critical times as the creatures evolved, a Duke researcher has shown. ...Full story --Also, Washington Times: Butterfly Wings Illustrate Gene Expression Full story EurekAlert!: Study Reveals Evolution on the (Butterfly) Wing Full story Science Now: The Eyespots Have It Full story

FOR THE RECORD: DOUBLE-JOINTED MYTH DEBUNKED New York Times, July 13 -- People who are double-jointed are often believed to be at higher risk for arthritis. But a new study from Duke suggests that when it comes to arthritis of the hand, the opposite may be the case. ...Full story

OP-ED: TEACHERS NEED 20 WORKDAYS Charlotte Observer, July 13 -- Reducing teacher workdays could have unintended consequences that will threaten recent educational gains, says Trudi Abel, director of the Digital Durham Project at Duke. (Free registration required.) ...Full story --Also, (Durham) Herald-Sun: Legislature's Vacation Fever Could Hurt N.C. Schools (reprint) Full story

A READING IN HONOR OF PABLO NERUDA'S CENTENNIAL NPR's All Things Considered, July 12 -- To mark Pablo Neruda's centennial, Chilean-American poet and Duke professor Ariel Dorfman read Neruda's poem "Sexual Water," in English and Spanish. ... Full story

FUROR PRECEDES COACH K'S DECISION TO STAY AT DUKE Chronicle of Higher Education, July 16 -- Few news releases can make a reporter's jaw drop, but one from Duke sports-information director Jon Jackson did. ... Full story

N.C.'s FIRST BLACK SURGEON DIES AT AGE 86 (Durham) Herald Sun, July 13 -- Dr. Charles DeWitt Watts' career took him from segregated Georgia to the teaching theaters of Duke University's medical school. ...Full story--Also, (Raleigh) News & Observer: Watts Brought Health to Durham Full story

LOVE TIPS FROM RELATIONSHIP COACH LAUREN DURANT NPR's The Tavis Smiley Show, July 9 -- Lauren Durant, a relationship coach and Duke psychiatry professor, talked about her seminar, "A Good Man is NOT Hard to Find." ...Full story

GENE SHUTOFF PREVENTS EPILEPSY IN MICE Atlanta Journal-Constitution, July 8 -- Switching off a specific gene prevents epilepsy in mice, say scientists from Duke University and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. ... Full story