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Duke in the News: April 20, 2007

The Mind of a Killer -- Caught on Tape | Breast Cancer Rates Dropping | Duke Undergrads Present Study on Legal Drinking Age, and more!

THE MIND OF A KILLER -- CAUGHT ON TAPE ABC News, April 19 -- Dr. Redford Williams, director of Duke's Behavioral Medicine Research Center, says the video that Virginia Tech student Seung-Hui Cho shot of himself reveals a form of "severe mental illness accompanied by paranoid delusional thinking." ... Full story --Also, Christianity Today: Commentary -- Putting Evil in Perspective (by Divinity School professor Richard B. Hays) ... Full story

BREAST CANCER RATES DROPPING ABC World News, April 19 -- Breast cancer cases are down and it may be a result of what women aren't doing -- not receiving estrogen replacement therapies, says Dr. Kimberly Blackwell of Duke. (Link to premium video; transcript e-mailed upon request to dukenews@duke.edu.) ... Link to video for subscribers

DUKE UNDERGRADS PRESENT STUDY ON LEGAL DRINKING AGE (Durham) Herald-Sun, April 20 -- At a symposium studying the minimum legal drinking age of 21, Duke students present a study highlighting their research on the effects of the federal Uniform Drinking Age Act. ... Full story

DUKE ALUMNUS, BYRNE, PRESENTS NASHER MUSEUM 37 WORKS OF ART Herald-Sun, April 20 -- Duke alumnus E. Blake Byrne has celebrated his 50th reunion by giving a collection of art to the Nasher Museum -- a gift that doubles the university museum's collection of contemporary art. ... Full story

INTENSIFYING HIV PREVENTION: COUNTRY GUIDANCE CRITICAL UNAIDS.org, April 13 -- Professor Michael Merson, director of the Global Health Institute at Duke, chairs a recent meeting in Geneva of the UNAIDS HIV Prevention Reference Group. ... Full story

A MUSICAL LANDMARK BBC Radio Scotland's Songlines, April 19 -- Mark Anthony Neal, associate professor in African & African-American Studies, helps mark the 40th anniversary of the release of Otis Redding's classic song "Respect." ... Listen

RACE IS ON TO SAVE THE LEATHERBACK TURTLE The Independent (London), April 19 -- Larry Crowder of the Duke Marine Laboratory explains the urgency of trying to generate interest in the plight of the mighty Pacific leatherback and its annual odyssey. ... Full story

OP-ED: TWO CONGRESSIONAL RESOLUTIONS THREATEN VITAL NATIONAL INTERESTS Herald-Sun, April 18 -- Foreign relations specialist Ole Holsti says the House of Representatives and Senate are on the verge of passing separate resolutions on human rights issues "that, no matter how well-intentioned, could seriously damage American foreign relations." ... Full story

ON THE AIR Duke alumnus Mark Pinsky, a religion writer for the Orlando Sentinel and author most recently of "The Gospel According to the Simpsons: Bigger (and Possibly Even) Better! Edition," talks on North Carolina Public Radio's "The State of Things" today about making a career out of analyzing the intersection of religion and popular culture. ... Details Duke history professor Laura Edwards will be featured this weekend on The History Channel's first episode of "The States," which will explore North Carolina's tobacco fields and the mystery of Roanoke. Watch at 10 p.m. ET on Saturday. ... Details Duke anthropology chair Anne Allison discusses Japanese popular culture and its hold of the American imagination on "To the Best of Our Knowledge" from Wisconsin Public Radio this weekend. ... Listen