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Duke in the News: April 13, 2005

Minor Misdosage of ER Clot-Busting Drugs May Be OK | Laptop Design Can Be a Pain in the Posture | Column: Black Boxes, and more

MINOR MISDOSAGE OF ER CLOT-BUSTING DRUGS MAY BE OK ABC News, April 12 -- Death or serious complications in heart attack patients given powerful clot-busting drugs are more likely triggered by individual patient characteristics than drug-dosing errors, a new Duke study finds. ... Full story --Also, Ivanhoe Newswire: Doctors Should Not Avoid Heart Attack Treatment ... Full story

LAPTOP DESIGN CAN BE A PAIN IN THE POSTURE USA Today, April 13 -- Duke ergonomics guru Tamara James is helping students who complain of discomfort from prolonged laptop computer use in lecture halls built for 20th-century academic life. ... Full story

COLUMN: BLACK BOXES Wall Street Journal, April 13 -- To smooth earnings, companies may spend more or less on advertising and research and development and even defer maintenance, says Duke finance professor Campbell Harvey. (Link for subscribers; article e-mailed upon request to eduke@duke.edu.) ... Full story

DUKE, NCSU, UNC SCORE IN CORPORATE, INDIVIDUAL GIVING Triangle Business Journal, April 8 -- Duke, with $255 million raised, placed 10th in the country among private institutions and No. 11 among all institutions in terms of fundraising in 2004, according to a new survey. ... Full story

SAT SCORES ARE IN: HOW'D I DO? Charlotte Observer, April 12 -- Admissions director Christoph Guttentag says Duke plans to wait a year or two before taking the new SAT writing portion into account as strongly as it does the verbal and math sections. ... Full story

PLANET IN PERIL: CIVILIZATION'S LITANY OF DESTRUCTION New Scientist, April 2 -- Stuart Pimm, an ecologist at Duke, comments on the Millennium Assessment of humankind's impact on the environment. (Link for subscribers; article e-mailed upon request to eduke@duke.edu.) ... Full story

STRESS MANAGEMENT AS EFFECTIVE AS EXERCISE IN REDUCING HEART PROBLEMS Voice of America, April 11 -- Duke researchers found that providing training in stress management was just as effective as exercise in reducing the risk of more heart problems. ...Full story

DUKE FAMILY N.Y. HOME ON SALE FOR $50M (Durham) Herald-Sun, April 12 -- The Manhattan Fifth Avenue mansion bought by Benjamin N. and Sarah P. Duke has gone on the market for $50 million. ... Full story

ON THE AIR    Duke public policy professor Bob Korstad joined a conversation Wednesday on changing public attitudes toward the poor that was broadcast on WUNC Radio's "The State of Things" program. The program, part of the series North Carolina Voices: Understanding Poverty, will be rebroadcast at 9 p.m. ET and can be heard on the web. ... Listen

   George McGovern, the former South Dakota senator and the 1972 Democratic nominee for president, is speaking at Duke today (Wednesday). His talk can be seen on the WRAL-TV NewsChannel (digital cable channel 256 or digital channel 5.2) on Thursday at 10 a.m. and again at 8 p.m. ET. ... Details