November 8, 2004

MORAL VALUES VOTE IS FAR FROM SIMPLE St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Nov. 8 -- Stanley Hauerwas, a professor of theological ethics at Duke Divinity School, isn't buying that the moral values indicated by the exit polls are necessarily Christian. Full story --Also, BBC News: America's Winners and Losers (Duke political science chair Michael Munger) Full story (Raleigh) News & Observer: Now That They've Won, What Will They Do? (Duke law professor Scott Silliman's foreign policy recommendations) Full story Stars and Stripes: Even After the Victory Speeches, Your Absentee Ballots Are Being Counted (Duke political scientist Peter Feaver) Full story Los Angeles Daily News: Column -- Perhaps It's Time to Leave the Union (Erwin Chemerinsky, a constitutional law professor at Duke University, comments.) Full story

STENTS DON'T LENGTHEN LIFE ABC News, Nov. 7 -- Coronary stents don't improve the long-term survival rates of heart patients, a Duke University Medical Center study contends. Full story --Also, Boston Herald: Study Raises Stent Doubts Full story

THE ELECTION'S OVER. ARE YOU STILL LOSING IT? New York Times, Nov. 7 -- Dr. Redford B. Williams, director of the behavioral medicine research center at Duke University and author of "Lifeskills," offered a handful of ways to deal with negative emotion generated by the election. Full story

POLLUTION, COLD SNAPS LINKED WITH HEART DEATH Reuters, Nov. 7 -- Cold snaps and air pollution can trigger heart deaths, and breathing dirty air day in and day out may help heart disease develop in the first place, Duke researchers and others said on Sunday. Full story --Also, (New Orleans) Times-Picayune: Cold and Pollution May Damage Heart Full story

SCIENTISTS FIGHT TO SAVE IRAQ'S MARSHES CNN, Nov. 5 -- Ecology professor Curtis Richardson, director of the Duke University Wetland Center, says the local Iraqi population needs humanitarian aid before efforts proceed to restore the wetlands Saddam drained. Full story

OP-ED: DEMOCRATS, THINK PROGRESSIVE (Raleigh) News & Observer, Nov. 7 -- Tom Spragens, a political science professor at Duke, says "the electoral map shows that a strategy from decades back can serve Democrats very well indeed." Full story

Q&A: DEEPER ANXIETY MAY FUEL SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BANS (Raleigh) News & Observer, Nov. 8 -- Duke history professor Felicia Kornbluh says, "We have a long history of wanting to draw lines and define insiders and outsiders, and marriage is one of the places we do that." Full story