Duke in the News: July 2, 2003

ACC ENTERS ERA OF `BAD FEELINGS' (Durham, N.C.) Herald-Sun, July 2 -- The ACC always has prided itself on the good relationships between its member schools. But that might change in the wake of the bitter six-week struggle to expand the league. ...Full story --Also, Charlotte Observer: ACC Celebrates Expansion ...Full story Atlanta Journal-Constitution: ACC Could Target SEC for No. 12; Louisville Shopping ... Full story USA Today: Expansion Is No Slam Dunk for ACC Basketball ... Full story (Raleigh) News & Observer: Now, It's Official ... Full story

RUSSIA WEIGHS PRESS LIMITS PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, July 1 -- Ellen Mickiewicz, Duke University professor and author of "Changing Channels: Television and the Struggle for Power in Russia," joined a discussion of recent moves by the Russian government to close the country's sole independent television station and adopt new press rules for covering upcoming elections. ... Full story

DNA MAKES NANO BARCODE Technology Review, June 27 -- Duke University researchers have moved the bottom-up method of assembling electronic components a step forward by programming strands of synthetic DNA to self-assemble into a structure that makes the pattern encoded in a DNA strand readable by microscope. ...Full story

PHYSICIAN, HEAL THE ELDERLY Chronicle of Higher Education, July 4 -- Medical schools are trying to prepare students to care for an aging population. Harvey Jay Cohen, professor of medicine and chief of geriatrics at Duke University School of Medicine, comments on their efforts. ...Full story

CLOT-BUSTERS OFTEN WITHHELD, STUDY SHOWS (Durham, N.C.) Herald Sun, July 2 -- Three out of four heart attack patients in a large national study didn't get the clot-busting drugs they should have received, causing unnecessary deaths, a Duke University Medical Center study shows. ...Full story

TRUE NORTH: BUSINESS COVERS ALL POINTS OF THE COMPASS Gloucester (Mass.) Daily Times, July 1 -- Led by Duke MBA Stephanie West, who was sent to Gloucester to manage ITT Jabsco's acquisition of Rule Industries in 2001, a team from inside and out has solved two central problems in design that together are likely to put its Danforth compasses back on the map, so to speak. ...Full story

GRANT SUPPORTS CLEANER FUEL USE (Raleigh) News & Observer, July 2 -- Duke University is on the list to receive grant funds to expand its use of a cleaner-burning fuel called B-20 biodiesel, a form of gasoline that is made with 20 percent soybean oil. ... Full story

U.S. DEATHS IN IRAQ SEND POLITICAL RIPPLES Wall Street Journal, July 2 -- Continuing American casualties in Iraq are generating new restlessness among lawmakers and the public, presenting an unexpected political problem for President Bush. "People don't have an infinite amount of patience," says Peter Feaver, a Duke University expert on war and public opinion. (Story available to online subscribers; full text upon request.)

HIGH COURT SIDESTEPS DUKE'S LASER FIGHT (Raleigh) News & Observer, July 2 -- Duke University has failed to persuade the U.S. Supreme Court to referee a battle over control of valuable lasers in use on campus. The court refused last week to review a ruling that permits physicist John Madey to sue Duke for violating patent laws by using free-electron lasers Madey invented. Duke and scores of academic organizations sought a ruling from the court, saying campuses should be exempt from such laws when conducting research. ... Full story