THE YEAR IN IDEAS: MONKEY PAY-PER-VIEW

New York Times Magazine, Dec. 11 -- Duke neurobiology professor Michael Platt and his colleagues are recognized as having yielded one of the most fascinating ideas of the year.
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OP-ED: WHAT THE PUBLIC REALLY THINKS OF IRAQ

(Denver) Rocky Mountain News, Dec. 12 -- Duke political scientist Christopher Gelpi and a colleague at Loyola University say their research "does not show that choosing the right words in the absence of action will dupe the public indefinitely into supporting a costly and stalemated war." (Also appeared in the Newark Star-Ledger.) ... Full story

DUKE PROF KEY PLAYER FOR BUSH

(Raleigh) News & Observer, Dec. 12 -- Duke political scientists Christopher Gelpi and Peter Feaver have been collaborating for eight years on research about the opinions of American civilians and military personnel. A new Bush administration policy bears the stamp of their findings. ... Full story
--Also, Time magazine: Joe Klein column -- Why Washington Is Playing With Fire (Feaver) Full story
The New York Times: Frank Rich column -- It Takes a Potemkin Village (Feaver)
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Los Angeles Times: President Tests the Power of His Bully Pulpit (Gelpi) ... Full story
(Atlanta) News 11: Bush Approval Rating Rebounds (AP story with professor Gelpi also appeared on 382 news sites.) ... Full story
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, AP: Today Is America's 1,000th Day in Bloody Iraq War (Gelpi comments in story that also appeared in Greensboro News & Record and 14 other news sources.) ... Full story
News & Observer: Q&A -- As Long as We're There, We Need to Stay the Course (Gelpi)
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THE TECHNOLOGY AND ETHICS OF FACE TRANSPLANTS

NPR's Talk of the Nation, Dec. 9 -- Dr. L. Scott Levin, chief of plastic and reconstructive surgery at Duke University Medical Center, was a program guest, commenting on the ethical and technical questions being raised following a face transplant procedure in France. ... Listen

UNIVERSITY SUGGESTS WAYS TO REDUCE OBESITY IN CHILDREN

AXcess News, Dec. 9 -- Recent research by Fuqua School of Business professor Richard Staelin, Duke marketing professor Joel Huber and Ph.D. student Kathryn Sharpe has demonstrated that fast-food companies could reduce their consumers' caloric intake while maintaining profits by simply increasing the assortment of soft drink sizes they sell. ... Full story

COMMENTARY: IS ISRAEL MOVING CLOSER TO ATTACKING IRAN?

Human Events, Dec. 11 -- Jack Langer, a freelance journalist and a Ph.D. candidate in Russian history at Duke, considers the possibility that Israel might attack Iran in order to wipe out its nuclear weapons development program. ... Full story

ARE SCIENCE, MUSIC LINKED?

(Durham) Herald-Sun, Dec. 12 -- Duke's constellation of star Oxford-bound scholars is well-spangled this year with scientist-musicians, equally at home in the lab and the concert hall.
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JOINING THE CRAZE

The Boston Globe, Dec. 11 -- A reporter visits with the citizens of Krzyzewskiville a few hours before the Blue Devils are to play the University of Pennsylvania. ... Full story

ON THE AIR

   Monday night's broadcast of "The Charlie Rose Show" on PBS is scheduled to include interviews with Duke President Richard Brodhead and Brown University President Ruth Simmons. North Carolina viewers can watch on UNC-TV at 11:30 p.m. Please check your local station to see what time it appears in your area. http://www.charlierose.com/
   Christopher Gelpi, an associate professor of political science at Duke, will be a guest on MSNBC's Hardball program Monday night. He will be talking about his research on public attitudes toward the war in Iraq. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697/
   Lisa Gwyther, director of the Family Support Program at Duke, will be on UNC-TV's "North Carolina Now" on Monday at 7:30 p.m. talking about adult children helping parents with complex decisions. http://www.unctv.org/ncnow/
   Duke history professor William Chafe was a guest Monday on WUNC Radio's "The State of Things." He discussed his book "Private Lives/Public Consequences" about how the personal lives of modern American leaders, such as John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bill Clinton, affected their public actions. Listen to a rebroadcast at 9 p.m. ET.
http://www.wunc.org/tsot/