Duke in the News: Nov. 21, 2005

3 AT DUKE AMONG RHODES SCHOLARS (Durham) Herald-Sun, Nov. 21 -- Three Duke seniors were among the 32 people selected this weekend to receive Rhodes Scholarships in 2006. The Duke recipients -- Adam Chandler of Burlington and William Hwang and Rahul Satija, both of Potomac, Md. -- were chosen from among 903 applicants at 333 colleges and universities throughout the country. ... Full story (Raleigh) News & Observer: 4 N.C. Students Named Rhodes Scholars for '06 ... Full story New York Times, AP: 32 U.S. Students Chosen as Rhodes Scholars ... Full story (Greensboro, N.C.) News & Record: N.C. Students Named Rhodes Scholars ... Full story The Times of India: Three Indo-Americans Get Rhodes scholarships ... Full story Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Americans Named 2006 Rhodes Scholars (full list) ... Full story

BUSH'S IRAQ WOES MOUNT Wall Street Journal, Nov. 19 -- "The Bush administration needs some kind of progress that they can point to in Iraq, and it's possible that elections can be that," said Duke political scientist Christopher Gelpi, who has studied the link between casualties and public opinion. Full story

A HISTORIC LIFE News & Observer, Nov. 20 -- Duke historian emeritus John Hope Franklin's rise from segregation "mirrors the struggles of all African-Americans in the last century and provides a window to the work that awaits us as a people and a nation." ... Full story --Also, Detroit Free Press: Book Review -- A Scholar on Self and Race ... Full story News & Observer: Scholar Tells His Story, His Way, In New Memoir ... Full story Herald-Sun: Franklin Talks at Daylong Session ... Full story Duke Chronicle: Historian Franklin Discusses Writing ... Full story

PROFESSOR IN YOUR POCKET Newsweek, Nov. 28 -- Duke is among a dozen colleges across the country that have introduced a new teaching tool called course casting, aimed at supplementing large lectures. Full story --Also, Duke.edu: The Duke Digital Initiative (DDI) http://www.duke.edu/ddi/

STEEPED IN GREENHOUSE GAS, PINE TREES DEVIATE Washington Post, Nov. 21 -- From the air, they look like a cross between unexplained Midwestern crop circles and the megaliths of Stonehenge. But these tall structures loom out of a forest at Duke University. ... Full story

OP-ED: THE COST OF KEEPING UP BEACH TOWNS' LIFESTYLE News & Observer, Nov. 21 -- As beaches degrade, as traffic snarls and storms leave their mark, the economic and environmental decline of three old Outer Banks towns "is as certain as their beautiful Atlantic sunrises," says Duke professor emeritus Orrin H. Pilkey. ... Full story

COLUMN: MAKING ETHICS RULES STICK Washington Post, Nov. 21 -- William Raspberry says the ethics boom sweeping corporate America proceeds from an assumption that misses what Noah Pickus, associate director of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke, sees as two important aspects of corporate ethics. Full story

THE SLIMMING SOLUTION U.S. News & World Report, Nov. 28 -- Experts, among them Duke exercise physiologist Cris Slentz, say that the best way to stop waist expansion is through regular exercise. Full story

ON THE AIR    John Jackson, assistant professor of cultural anthropology and African-American studies at Duke, was the guest Monday on North Carolina Public Radio's "The State of Things," talking about his new book, "Real Black: Adventures in Racial Sincerity." Listen to a rebroadcast at 9 p.m. ET or later to archived audio on the web. http://www.wunc.org/tsot/    Duke English professor James Applewhite will be on "The State of Things" Tuesday, reading from his new book of Duke University Press-published poetry, "Selected Poems." Listen live at noon.    Duke religion professor emeritus E.P. Sanders has been interviewed for a BBC Radio 4 series, "In the Footsteps of Jesus," which continues Monday night at 8 p.m. London time. Listen live or later on the web. http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion