February 25, 2005
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5PROGNOSIS UNCLEAR AS POPE HAS TRACHEOTOMY Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Feb. 25 -- Dr. Momen Wahidi, director of interventional pulmonology at the Duke University Medical Center, discussed how long Pope John Paul II may need a breathing tube. ... Full story
THE GENDER GAP IN MATH AND SCIENCE CNN's "Lou Dobbs Tonight," Feb. 24 -- Donna Lisker, director of the Women's Center at Duke, was interviewed about the Women's Initiative that assessed the social and academic climate for undergraduate women at Duke. (See last program segment.) ... Full story
ONE-THIRD OF PARADISE The Economist, Feb. 24 -- Duke ecologist Curtis Richardson warns that there will be little or no long-term restoration of the Iraqi marshes unless the wetlands are designed to allow enough water to flush through and reduce the tendency of salt and poisonous heavy metals to build up. ... Full story --Also, Science: The Restoration Potential of the Mesopotamian Marshes of Iraq ... Full story Sydney Morning Herald: Scientists Hope to Turn Back Tide of Destruction in Iraqi Marshes (free registration) ... Full story
OP-ED: A YOUNGER GENERATION SUPPORTS THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE Dallas Morning News, Feb. 24 -- Duke senior Sarah Zaman says she believes more and more of her generation are standing in the middle on the abortion debate. (free registration) ... Full story
GUEST COLUMN: WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE HAGUE? Sudbury (Mass.) Town Crier, Feb. 24 -- Laurie Ball, working in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina as a Duke University Hart Fellow, looks for larger lessons in the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. ... Full story
DUKE DOCS, VA TALK 'FAIR' RATES (Durham) Herald-Sun, Feb. 25 -- A spokesman for a group of Duke University Medical Center doctors said Thursday the specialists will keep treating military veterans during pay negotiations with Durham's Veterans Affairs Medical Center, despite a threatened cutoff. ... Full story --Also, (Raleigh) News & Observer: Duke Physicians at Odds With VA ... Full story
IDEAS: COMMODITIZE THIS! Boston Globe, Feb. 20 -- Duke Press author James Ridgeway ("It's All for Sale: The Control of Global Resources") says trade of the world's commodities is growing less complex all the time. ... Full story
REVIEW: READING REVEALS VIDAL'S CRAFT (Raleigh) News & Observer, Feb. 25 -- Jim Wise says the "staged theatrical concert reading" at Duke of Gore Vidal's "On the March to the Sea" is "satisfying in measures that whiz-bang extravaganzas...can't come close to reaching." ... Full story --Also, (Duke) Chronicle: Star-Studded Vidal Play Brings Civil War to Duke ... Full story Duke Dialogue: Gore Vidal Brings the Civil War to Duke ... Full story
ON THE AIR Andy Coburn, associate director of the Duke Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines, is scheduled to be featured in a story on NBC Nightly News Friday about rebuilding coastal communities after hurricanes. ... Full story
An interview with Duke history professor Claudia Koonz will be featured in a History Channel documentary on an unpublished sequel to Mein Kampf. The documentary, first shown in December, will be rebroadcast on Sunday, Feb. 27, at 8 p.m. ET. Full story
The Feb. 25 edition of NPR's "Living on Earth" environment show will include interviews with Nicholas School professors Emily Klein and Jeffrey Karson, who are aboard the R/V Atlantis research ship off Easter Island. Their Pito Deep expedition to study the upper ocean crust is also being followed by a Duke website. ... Full story