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December 20, 2004

Bush's Donaldson Dilemma | Is Celebrex Dangerous? | Grant Will Aid Evolution Studies, and more ...

BUSH'S DONALDSON DILEMMA Wall Street Journal, Dec. 20 -- Few decisions will be as tricky for President Bush as deciding whether to keep William Donaldson as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. James D. Cox, a corporate and securities law professor at Duke, comments. (Link for subscribers; article e-mailed upon request to eduke@duke.edu.) Full story

IS CELEBREX DANGEROUS? CNN's Paula Zahn Now, Dec. 17 -- Dr. Peter Kussin, the chairman of Duke's pharmacy committee, says doctors remain dependent on the pharmaceutical industry as the major source of information about new medications and new treatments. Full story

GRANT WILL AID EVOLUTION STUDIES (Raleigh) News & Observer, Dec. 18 -- Scientists at Duke, N.C. State University and UNC-Chapel Hill have landed a $15 million National Science Foundation grant to create a National Evolutionary Synthesis Center in Durham. Full story --Also, LocalTechWire.com: NSF Funds $15M Evolutionary Sciences Center Full story

RACE RIOT MEMORIAL TO BE NAMED FOR ACCLAIMED HISTORIAN, AUTHOR AOL Black Voices, Dec. 18 -- A planned memorial to Tulsa's 1921 race riot will be named in honor of Duke historian and author John Hope Franklin, who spent much of his youth in Tulsa. (Also in Tulsa World.) Full story

EDITORIAL: EDUCATION EQUATION (Raleigh) News & Observer, Dec. 19 -- Citing Duke President Richard Brodhead's concerns about youngsters' flagging interest in math and science, the newspaper says foreign competition for U.S. universities is an ominous cloud on the national horizon. Full story

PANEL SAYS OFFSHORING GOOD OVERALL (Durham) Herald-Sun, Dec. 18 -- The issue may be politically and emotionally charged, but the growing trend of sending U.S. jobs to countries like India isn't going to stop, several Triangle technology entrepreneurs said last week at a forum at Duke's Fitzpatrick Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine, and Applied Sciences. Full story

CHARITY BEGINS ONLINE Newhouse News Service, Dec. 16 -- Scott Yakola, a professor of sports marketing, talks about the Duke athletic department's online auction, which has raised $150,000 for the Duke University Women's Scholarship endowment. Full story

MORE HOLIDAY SHOPPERS PROCRASTINATING New York Post, Dec. 19 -- A recent study by Duke's Fuqua School of Business and the Yale School of Management found that shopping is akin to Newton's law of motion: A body in motion (say, a swiping credit card) tends to stay in motion. Full story

ON THE AIR Duke sociology professor Mary Elizabeth Hughes will appear on the Dec. 20 edition of BET Nightly News (11 p.m. ET) to discuss her study finding regarding blacks in the baby boom generation. Public radio WUNC's "The State of Things" will include a discussion Monday of the discovery by Duke scientists of a genetic variation that could predispose people to depression. The program will be rebroadcast at 9 p.m. ET and will later be archived on the Web. Full story