Duke in the News: July 21, 2003

AFRICA CRASH KILLS 12 WITH AREA TIES (Durham, N.C.) Herald-Sun, July 21 -- A chartered plane that crashed into a Kenyan mountainside Saturday evening, killing all 14 on board, included five passengers who were alumni of Duke University. ...Full story --Also, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 12 Members of Atlanta Family Die in Kenya Crash Full story (Raleigh) News & Observer: Twelve in Family Die in Crash Full story Chicago Tribune: Weather Delays Recovery of Kenya Crash Full story Charlotte Observer: Profiles of Kenya Crash Victims Full story

DETAINEES AWAIT AN UNKNOWN FATE Orlando Sentinel, July 20 -- Retired Air Force Col. Scott Silliman, a former judge advocate who heads the Center of Law, Ethics and National Security at Duke University, worries about the precedent the United States is setting with the indefinite detention of 660 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, without criminal charge or prisoner-of-war status. ... Full story --Also, USA Today: Moussaoui Clash Tests Future of Terror Trials (Silliman comments.) Full story

JESICA'S STORY: ONE MISTAKE DIDN'T KILL HER U.S. News & World Report, July 21 -- Given the basic flaws in the national organ-transplant system exposed by Jesica Santillas story, it's remarkable that there have not been more deaths. ... Full story --Also, (Durham, N.C.) Herald-Sun: Flaws Cited in Organ Donor System Full story

YOUR BRAIN ON STRESS: AN UNFOCUSED PICTURE New York Times, July 20 -- A vascular surgeon says chronic stress affects the job performance of many of his patients, particularly executives. Dr. Redford Williams, who studies stress as part of the psychiatry department of Duke University Medical Center, comments on the relentless stress that causes the body to respond as it does in an emergency, with a "fight or flight" response. ... Full story

9 SCHOLARS TO BE HONORED BY BIOPHYSICS SOCIETY Chronicle of Higher Education, July 21 -- The Biophysics Society has announced that Thomas J. McIntosh, a professor of cell biology at the Duke University Medical Center, will receive the Avanti Award in Lipids for his contributions in membrane lipid biophysics. ...Full story

LABOR LAWYER, WNBA POINT GUARD People, July 21 -- Can't decide what to be when you grow up? Who says you have to? Meet Duke Law alumna Sonja Henning, a player for the Indiana Fever and an associate at a Portland, Ore., firm (as well as president of the players' union). (Article is not available online except to subcribers and AOL members; full text upon request.)

SPIN CYCLE Christian Science Monitor, July 18 -- Jazz and folk music have long traditions of artists building on the work of those who have gone before them, points out Anthony M. Kelley, who teaches music composition at Duke University. But, "there is also a balance to be found" between the rights of the originator and the rights of other artists to piggyback on that work, he said. ...Full story