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Dec. 2, 2004

Research Explains the Urge to Buy | Ilex's Leukemia Drug Shows Some Benefit -- FDA Panel | Democrats Trying to Get Religion, and more ...

RESEARCH EXPLAINS THE URGE TO BUY Orange County (Calif.) Register, Dec. 2 -- As consumers flood malls this holiday shopping season, a new study of shopping behavior by researchers at Duke and Yale explains why some consumers may buy more than they intend. (free registration) Full story

ILEX'S LEUKEMIA DRUG SHOWS SOME BENEFIT -- FDA PANEL ABC News, Dec. 1 -- A panel of medical experts, including Duke pediatrics professor Joanne Kurtzberg, said Ilex Oncology Inc.'s new drug Clolar was "reasonably likely" to help children and young adults with a cancer called acute lymphocytic leukemia. Full story

LETTER FROM AMERICA: DEMOCRATS, AT LAST, TRYING TO GET RELIGION International Herald Tribune, Dec. 2 -- David Steinmetz, professor of the history of Christianity at Duke, says "not everyone who is an evangelical is a fourth-grade dropout with knuckles dragging on the ground" and not all religious Bush voters are "ignorant louts." Full story

BOOK REVIEW: OFFERING AN ENGINEER'S-EYE VIEW (North Adams, Mass.) Daily News Transcript, Nov. 28 -- Duke engineering professor Henry Petroski's latest book, "Pushing the Limits: New Adventures in Engineering," takes the reader into the land of mega-bridges, power dams and art museum construction. Full story

COLUMN: BEST, WORST CHRISTMAS PRESENTS EVER Fayetteville (N.C.) Observer, Dec. 2 -- A mother's best gift, for all seasons, came last March in the form of surgery performed on her son by Dr. James Urbaniak, chief of orthopaedics at Duke. Full story

2 GIANTS TO INTRODUCE ENHANCED DATA SHARING SERVICES ON NET New York Times, Dec. 2 -- Google is bringing out a second version of its Google Groups service, based on Usenet, the online message archive designed in 1979 by a small group of developers at Duke University. Full story --Also, New York Times: A Tool for Scholars Who Like to Dig Deep (Emily Shurr, a Duke University instructor in leadership training) Full story

RAY CHARLES' POPULARITY GROWS AFTER HIS DEATH BlackAmericaWeb.com, Nov. 28 -- Mark Anthony Neal, a professor of black popular culture at Duke, talks about the lasting and growing popularity of Ray Charles. Full story

ON THE AIR A History Channel documentary on an unpublished sequel to "Mein Kampf" includes an interview with Duke historian Claudia Koonz. "Hitler's Lost Plan," an hour-long documentary, premieres Thursday, Dec. 2, at 9 p.m. ET. Full story