Duke in the News: March 19, 2003

KEY ADVISERS SEE IRAQ WAR AS TEST CASE (San Jose, Calif.) Mercury News, March 19 -- "This is not just about Iraq," says Bruce Jentleson, director of the Terry Sanford Public Policy Institute at Duke University, commenting on the perceived demonstrative effect of a war. ...Full story

ECONOMY IN THE LINE OF FIRE Chicago Tribune, March 19 -- In the job market the war could cause higher unemployment if U.S. forces are not successful quickly. To Campbell Harvey, professor of international finance at Duke University, the longer the war persists, the more severe the economy's troubles will become. ... Full story

DEBATING THE LEGALITY OF WAR CBC's The Current, March 19 -- Duke law professor Michael Byers joined a discussion of the legality of war with Iraq, broadcast this morning on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. (Audio available.) ...Listen

DUKE'S SANFORD INSTITUTE RECEIVES A $1 MILLION GIFT (Durham, N.C.) Herald-Sun, March 19 -- Duke University's Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy will receive $1 million from the Coca-Cola Foundation to fund the Multimedia and Instructional Technology Center at the Sanford Institute's new building. ...Full story

GERON SOARS ON CANCER RESEARCH NEWS Newsday, March 19 -- The stock price of struggling Geron Corp. skyrocketed Tuesday after the company said its experimental cancer vaccine showed promise in fighting all types of the disease. The company is conducting experiments at Duke University Medical Center with the vaccine on colon cancer patients to determine whether the treatment is safe. ... Full story

QUAKES SHAKE WATER FROM SOIL Nature, March 19 -- Earthquakes shake water out of sodden soils, new research suggests, possibly explaining why streams flow more quickly after a big tremor. "It's one of those curiosities of nature that has preoccupied people for years," says geologist Stuart Rojstaczer of Duke University. ...Full story

A LIFE OF LETTERS CUT SHORT (Raleigh) News & Observer, March 18 -- Author Amanda Davis, who grew up in Durham, was just stepping into the literary limelight when she was killed in a plane crash Friday outside Asheville. Her father, Jim Davis, a Duke neurologist from 1972 to 1992, was piloting his own plane. ...Full story

SMALLPOX VACCINE GIVEN TO WORKERS (Durham, N.C.) Herald-Sun, March 19 -- At Duke, the National Smallpox Preparedness Program has a goal of vaccinating 120 health-care workers, a spokeswoman said. They are among the first North Carolinians to get the smallpox vaccine since the mid-1970s. Full story

ADVENTURES IN DRUMMING (Raleigh) News & Observer, March 19 -- Triangle Taiko (big drum) was formed last year by Jason Sass, a Duke University law student who spent a year in a small Japanese fishing village teaching English. Full story

EDITORIAL: HOSPITALS' FAIR PAY (Raleigh) News & Observer, March 19 -- The state has cut corners in overseeing Medicaid payments to hospitals, casting a shadow over their fairness, according to the paper's editorial. The active role a Greensboro attorney representing Duke and other hospitals has played in the program for most of a decade understandably raises eyebrows, the editorial said. ... Full story