Duke in the News: July 12, 2005

BLAST SENDS SISTERS ON TREK TO DUKE (Raleigh) News & Observer, July 12 -- Two sisters who were 10 feet from a bomb that blew up in a London subway car last week are being treated at Duke University Medical Center for shrapnel and blast injuries. ... Full story --Also, Washington Post: Tenn. Sisters Were 10 Feet From U.K. Bomb ... Full story CNN: Sisters Hurt in London Have Surgery ... Full story (Durham) Herald-Sun: Sisters Injured in London Bombings Travel to Duke for Treatment Full story Inside Edition: New Developments in the Story of Two Americans Injured in the London Terrorist Attacks ... Full story

IN BID TO GLOBALIZE, U.S. COLLEGES OFFER DEGREES IN ASIA Wall Street Journal, July 12 -- As competition for Asia's booming education market steps up, a growing number of big U.S. schools -- including Duke -- are opening their own graduate programs over there. (Link for subscribers; e-mailed upon request to eduke@duke.edu.) Full story for subscribers

WHITE HOUSE MUM, CRITICS HOWL OVER ROVE'S ROLE IN CIA LEAK Houston Chronicle, July 12 -- Erwin Chemerinsky, a Duke law school professor, says it is too soon to say that top administration political aide Karl Rove is safe from prosecution in the case of leaked information about an undercover CIA operative. ... Full story

OP-ED: REFLECTING ON DURHAM'S PROBLEMS AND PROMISE Herald-Sun, July 10 -- A speech President Richard Brodhead gave to the Durham Rotary Club on June 13, marking his first year at Duke, is excerpted. (Article not available online: e-mailed upon request to eduke@duke.edu.)

DENNIS SCRUBS SHORELINE BARE OF WHITE SAND Atlanta Journal-Constitution, July 12 -- Orrin Pilkey Jr., professor emeritus in the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke and a leading expert on shoreline erosion, discusses the tug-of-war going on between people and the elements along a rapidly developing part of the Gulf Coast. ... Full story --Also, Bloomberg News: Delaware Restores Storm-Damaged Rehoboth Beach to Boost Tourism (Pilkey) ... Full story (Durham) ABC 11 News: Channel Relocation Faces Uncertain Future (Andy Coburn, associate director of Duke's Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines) ... Full story

SUMMER'S LAZY DAYS MAKE LESSONS HAZY San Jose Mercury News, July 11 -- Kids may not like to hear it, but the antidote to summer brain slippage is summer school. Harris Cooper, director of Duke's Program in Education, explains. ... Full story --Also, WUNC Radio's "The State of Things": Summer Education ... Full story/listen (Fort Wayne, Ind.) News-Sentinel: Today's Overscheduled Kids Need Time to Do Nothing, Experts Say (Tim Dodd, executive director of the Center for Academic Integrity at Duke) Full story

DUKE GRAD STUDENT DETAINED IN ARMENIA Herald-Sun, July 12 -- After allowing him to conduct research at Armenia's national archives -- reportedly the first Turk ever to do so -- Armenian authorities have detained Duke doctoral student Yektan Turkyilmazhim for more than three weeks. ... Full story

RADIO DRAMA AFICIONADO REVIVES LOST FORM News & Observer, July 11 -- Daniel Foster, an assistant professor of dramatic history and literature at Duke, hopes to draw more, and younger, devotees to the lost art of radio theater. Full story

FEELING SICK? HOW'S YOUR MARRIAGE? The Early Show, CBS News, July 11 -- A new study from Duke and the University Of Chicago looked at the long-term health consequences of people who are married, divorced, widowed, remarried and single. ... Full story

G-8 LEADERS SEE PROGRESS ON CLIMATE CHANGE, AID TO AFRICA Knight Ridder Newspapers, July 9 -- Experts in the United States viewed the G-8 statement on climate change as equivocal. Tim Profeta, the director of the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke, comments on the communique. ... Full story

ON THE AIR Duke history professor and former NASA historian Alex Roland was interviewed Monday for an NBC News Today Show segment on the next steps in space exploration. The story is scheduled to air Wednesday morning during coverage of the space shuttle Discovery launch. Also, Professor Roland will appear live Tuesday on CNN's Newsnight at approximately 10:30 p.m. ET to discuss the launch.