Duke in the News: Feb. 12, 2004

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE GETS MORE AGGRESSIVE Wall Street Journal, Feb. 12 -- Duke University last month began offering a prospective health program as a new benefit to its 35,000 employees and their dependents. Other large academic medical centers and the Association of American Medical Colleges are also investigating the prospective health model for their own employees. (Link for subscribers; article e-mailed upon request.) ... Full story

2004 COLLEGE ACADEMIC ALL-STARS FIRST TEAM USA Today, Feb. 12 -- Named to the newspaper's All-USA College Academic Team is Sara Hudson, a junior at Duke. Hudson, who hails from Boerne, Texas, designed her own major in Latino studies and has done documentary and humanitarian work in Latin America. ... Full story --Also, (Durham, N.C.) Herald-Sun: Scholar Wins New Citation Full story

KERRY VICTORIES FORCE CLARK OUT OF DEMOCRATIC RACE (China) Channel News Asia, Agence France Press, Feb. 12 -- Duke political science professor Kerry Haynie said Gen. Wesley Clark never caught fire because he had concentrated on security and foreign policies, whose importance eventually diminished in the eyes of many voters. ... Full story --Also, (San Jose) Mercury News: Clark Officially Quits White House Bid (Duke political scientist Peter Feaver) Full story

PATROLLING PROFESSORS' POLITICS Chronicle of Higher Education, Feb. 13 -- Conservative activists and students press campaigns against perceived bias at Duke and other campuses. ...Full story --Also, Duke News: President Keohane Responds to Ad Placed by Duke Conservative Union Full story Duke News: Senior VP John Burness Responds to Claim that Duke Lacks Intellectual Diversity Full story

ECONOMICS OF TV NEWS WUNC Radio's The State of Things, Feb. 11 -- Guests discussing the economics of TV news were Duke public policy professor James Hamilton, author of "All the News That's Fit To Sell," and former NBC White House correspondent John Dancy, a visiting lecturer at the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy. (Transcript not available; audio CD upon request. )

THEATER REVIEW: `PULP' CELEBRATES LESBIAN PAPERBACKS Chicago Tribune, Feb. 12 -- In the unlikely confines of the Rare Book Room at the Duke University library resides an extensive collection of lesbian pulp fiction. Such lurid titles as "The Evil Friendship" and "The Twilight Lust' lie there amid the Egyptian papyri and the Walt Whitman texts. ... Full story

COLUMN: THE SEC TAKES A SWING AT SLEAZE -- AND MISSES CNBC, Feb. 10 -- James Cox, professor of corporate and securities law at Duke University, says the Security and Exchange Commission's Division of Investment Management "has been co-opted by the industry they are supposed to regulate." ...Full story

MILITARY VOTE NOT AN AUTOMATIC LOCK FOR GOP IN 2004 (Memphis) Commercial Appeal, Scripps Howard News Service, Feb. 12 -- As Democrats launch a full-bore effort to woo military personnel and veterans to their side in November, Peter Feaver, director of Duke University's Triangle Institute for Security Studies, offers a cautionary note. ... Full story

GRANT SEEKS TO EDUCATE 'CANADIANISTS' AT U.S. SCHOOLS (Canada) National Post, Feb. 12 -- The international education branch of Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs is pumping $300,000 into U.S. colleges to enhance the study of Canada south of the border. Duke Canadian Studies professor John Thompson and Duke senior Tyler Henkel comment. (Link for subscribers; text e-mailed upon request.) ... Full story