September 21, 2004

WHAT'S THE ENDGAME IN IRAQ? NBC Nightly News, Sept. 20 -- An expert on the politics of national security, Peter Feaver of Duke University, says by now criticizing the war he may inherit, there is a big danger for Sen. Kerry. Full story --Also, Christian Science Monitor: A Strident Minority -- Anti-Bush U.S. Troops in Iraq Full story

WILL MISTAKE HASTEN RATHER'S DEPARTURE? Newsday, Sept. 21 -- Susan Tifft, a journalism and public policy professor at Duke, suggests the latest controversy in Dan Rather's career could hasten the CBS News anchor's departure. Full story

CUT STRESS ”CUT SUGAR Newsweek, Sept. 27 -- By lowering stress, Duke's Richard Surwit argues, patients with diabetes, particularly type 2, can keep their illness in check. Full story

FBI GETS ACCESS TO STUDENT DATABASES Chronicle of Higher Education, Sept. 24 -- Catheryn D. Cotten, director of the international office at Duke, says database errors could lead to "tragic consequences for students" if law-enforcement officials acted on them. Full story

WE ALL NEED A DOSE OF THE DOCTOR Newsweek, Sept. 27 -- The medical school at Duke is among the few that have created programs intended to pull medicine away from an exclusive focus on disease and toward the promotion of wellness. Full story

PRO-PALESTINIAN GROUP WON'T SIGN LETTER CONDEMNING TERRORISM (Durham) Herald-Sun, Sept. 21 -- A spokesman for the planners of a pro-Palestinian student conference at Duke University said his group will not sign a statement condemning terrorism, as campus Jewish groups have requested. Full story --Also, Duke News: Palestine Solidarity Conference at Duke Full story

IS PROZAC BETTER? IS IT EVEN DIFFERENT? New York Times, Sept. 21 -- Dr. John March, chief of the division of child and adolescent psychiatry at Duke University Medical School, talks about the recent warnings about antidepressants and children. Full story

DOCTOR'S QUEST (Raleigh) News & Observer, Sept. 21 -- "Mountains Beyond Mountains," the book about Duke alumnus Dr. Paul Farmer, has been popular in the Triangle this year. (See second item.) Full story

COLUMN: TEACHER'S HEART HALF A WORLD AWAY (Durham) Herald-Sun, Sept. 19 -- Bouna S. Ndiaye, program coordinator at the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary & International Studies, has been in America since 1982 but his heart is still in Senegal. Full story