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Duke in the News: Aug. 21, 2006

Commentary: Every Executive Needs a Limit | Universities Aim to Avoid 'Freshman 15' | Humans Endangering More Birds, and more!

COMMENTARY: EVERY EXECUTIVE NEEDS A LIMIT Slate, Aug. 18 -- Erwin Chemerinsky, Duke professor of law and political science, lauds a federal judge's injunction against warrantless domestic surveillance. ... Full story

UNIVERSITIES AIM TO AVOID 'FRESHMAN 15' The New York Times, Aug. 20 -- Duke offers an interactive nutrition workshop for freshmen with eating problems. The workshop includes tips for quick, healthy meals in the dorm, and how to eat the right way in an all-you-can eat dining hall. (AP story also appeared in the Chicago Tribune and more than 365 other news outlets.) ... Full story

HUMANS ENDANGERING MORE BIRDS (Raleigh) News & Observer, Aug. 21 -- To those who love watching and hearing birds, Stuart Pimm bears bad news. The Duke ecologist and his research partners have concluded that scientists seriously underestimated the number of birds that people have pushed toward extinction. ... Full story

OP-ED: DOT'S PLAN FOR N.C. 12 IRRESPONSIBLE Winston-Salem Journal, Aug. 21 -- Mining sand from an active barrier island to shore up a highway will damage the nation's first and most treasured seashore, write Orrin Pilkey, an emeritus professor of Earth Sciences at Duke, and Andrew S. Coburn, the associate director of the Duke Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines. ... Full story

THE COMPLETE LIST: THE TOP 100 GLOBAL UNIVERSITIES Newsweek International, Aug. 13 -- Duke has placed 14th in Newsweek's new ranking of global universities that takes into account openness and diversity as well as distinction in research. ... Full story --Also, (Durham) Herald-Sun: Editorial -- Duke, UNC Stay Atop College Pack ... Full story

'COACH K' RECALLS HIS ARMY YEARS DURING VISIT TO CAMP CASEY Stars & Stripes, Aug. 18 -- Duke University and Team USA basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski returned to South Korea last week with the USA team, which appeared before about 1,000 servicemembers at a Camp Casey gym. ... Full story