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Duke in the News: Nov. 6, 2006

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MIDTERM ELECTIONS: FOLLOWING THE MONEY Women's Wear Daily, Nov. 6 -- "You've got to have the money to win the [election] turnout battle," says Michael Munger, chairman of the political science department at Duke. ... Full story --Also, National Journal: Insiders Poll; Senate Counting to Six (Duke political scientist David Rohde) ... Full story Durham News: Many Young Adults Still Electing to Not Vote at All (Rohde) ... Full story Philadelphia Daily News: Red and Blue Genes? (Evan Charney, assistant professor of public policy and political science at Duke) ... Full story Seed Magazine: Study Suggests New Election-Day Strategy -- Imagine the Vote (Gavan Fitzsimons, a consumer psychologist at Duke) ... Full story

CONTRACTORS RARELY HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR MISDEEDS IN IRAQ Washington Post, Nov. 4 -- For military contractors, Duke law professor Scott Silliman says, it is unclear which laws apply. ... Full story

OP-ED: GOD AND UNDERGRADS AT HARVARD Orlando Sentinel, Nov. 5 -- Being non-religious is no excuse for being religiously illiterate, says Duke Divinity School professor David C. Steinmetz. ... Full story

STILL DRAWN TO DUKE Baltimore Sun, Nov. 4 -- After the lacrosse incident surfaced, Baltimore area football recruits did their homework -- and are glad they enrolled at Duke. ... Full story

THREE TRIANGLE HOSPITALS RANKED AMONG NATION'S TOP 50 Triangle Business Journal, Nov. 3 -- Duke University Hospital has cracked a first-ever list of the nation's top 50 acute-care hospitals, meaning it was judged to be among the safest in the country. (Link to preview; e-mailed upon request to dukenews@duke.edu.) ... Full story for subscribers

BOOKS FOR THE BOOKISH (New Orleans) Times-Picayune, Nov. 5 -- In "BookMarks: Reading in Black and White," Duke English professor Karla FC Holloway examines the public implications of the reading life of African-Americans. ... Full story

BABY BOOMER FUN STRAINS SHOULDERS Shreveport Times, Gannett News Service, Nov. 3 -- The shoulders of aging baby boomers determined to stay fit are uniquely susceptible to overuse injury, says physician Claude T. Moorman III, director of sports medicine at Duke University Medical Center. ... Full story

COUNTERCULTURAL REVOLUTION (Durham) Independent Weekly, Nov. 1 -- Warriors from the Chinese avant-garde land at Duke's Nasher Museum of Art. ... Full story

'GISELLE' TESTS YOUNG DANCERS Cincinnati Enquirer, Nov. 2 -- At 22, recent Duke graduate Lindsay Davis of Akron is the senior member of the newly minted professional ballerinas of "Giselle." ... Full story

SEASONED AND SAVORING Independent Weekly, Nov. 1 -- Twenty-eight years after starting Sugar Hill Records in his college apartment, Duke alumnus Barry Poss reflects on Durham's traditional influences. ... Full story

THE RHODES RACE Duke Chronicle's Towerview magazine, Oct. 27 -- Cancer-curing, Dante-translating, 50-digits-of-pi-reciting Duke students drive toward academia's highest honors. ... Full story

ON THE AIR Mike Munger, chair of the political science department at Duke and the first announced candidate for North Carolina governor in 2008, will be the guest on "The State of Things" Monday. He will be talking about third-party state politics, his platform and his viability as a candidate. ... Details