September 22, 2004

ACUPUNCTURE EASES POST-SURGICAL DISCOMFORT (Beijing) Xinhua News: Researchers from Duke University Medical Center find that acupuncture may work better than drugs in helping ease postoperative nausea and pain.  (Additional coverage in The Wall Street Journal, Yahoo News.) Full story --Also, Australian Broadcasting: Acupuncture Helps Ease Post-Surgical Ills, New Study Reveals Full story (Durham) Herald-Sun: Duke Study: Acupuncture Best for Post-Op Nausea Full story

ELECTION IS TURNING INTO A DUEL OF THE MANLY MEN USA Today, Sept. 22 -- David Paletz, a political scientist at Duke University, says both presidential candidates are trying to emulate Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Full story --Also, New York Times: Pentagon Bid to Reform Absentee Voting Draws Fire (Peter Feaver) Full story (Duke) Chronicle: Classes Focus on Politics Full story (Raleigh) News & Observer: Rappers, Rockers Are Making Voting Cool (column by Emily Almas, a junior history major at Duke) Full story

FAULTY RECALL PLAGUES US ALL (Raleigh) News & Observer, Sept. 22 -- Duke experts say memories, especially those that are three decades old, are a lot more fragile than we think they are. Full story

COLUMN: W-2 GETS THE BIG BOOK TREATMENT (Madison) Capital Times, Sept. 22 -- Duke alumnus Jason DeParle, award-winning social policy reporter for The New York Times, has written "a big, important, readable book on an unwieldy subject" -- welfare reform. Full story

DAVID BARBER REMEMBERED AS A PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL WUNC Radio's "The State of Things," Sept. 20 -- Congressman David Price talked about the passing of his colleague, former Duke political science chair David Barber. (See second item.) Full story

COLUMN: TALE OF TWO T-SHIRTS The Christian Century, Sept. 7 -- L. Gregory Jones, dean of Duke University Divinity School, hopes his son will have a "faith-filled perspective" from which to challenge what needs to be challenged. Full story

DAUGHTER FIGHTS DISEASE THAT KILLED MOM (Raleigh) News & Observer, Sept. 19 -- Melanie Bacheler is preparing for the 2004 Ovarian Awareness Weekend to benefit the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center. Full story

COLUMN: CONNECTING THE DOTS ON THE ENVIRONMENT Salisbury (N.C.) Post, Sept. 21 -- William H. Schlesinger, dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, spends a lot of time connecting the environmental dots and pondering where they may lead us. Full story