Duke in the News: Nov. 30, 2005

PRECEDENT AT STAKE IN SUPREME COURT ABORTION CASE Fox News, Nov. 30 -- Neil Siegel of Duke's School of Law comments on the first major abortion case to be heard before the U.S. Supreme Court in five years. ... Full story --Also, Buffalo News: Confronting Roe Once Again ... Full story

EUROPEAN FIRMS ARE MORE UPBEAT ON PROFIT OUTLOOK Wall Street Journal (U.S. and Europe), Nov. 30 -- European companies see good prospects for earnings and investment spending, according to a quarterly survey of chief financial officers by Duke and RSM Erasmus universities and CFO Europe magazine. (Link for subscribers; e-mailed upon request to eduke@duke.edu; additional coverage by De Telegraaf in The Netherlands, Dow Jones Newswires, Reuters, CNBC and CNN International) Full story for subscribers --Also, (Raleigh) News & Observer: CFOs See Inflation, Less Hiring ... Full story Triangle Business Journal: Optimism Down Among CFOs, Survey Says ... Full story

EXPERTS' SHOCK AT CHILDREN'S MENTAL HEALTH (London) Telegraph, Nov. 29 -- Dr. Adrian Angold of Duke, addressing a conference at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, talked about the large number of preschool children having mental and behavioral disorders. ... Full story --Also, The (London) Guardian: Column -- It's OK to Be Afraid of, Well, Everything Full story Spiked: Column -- 'One-in-10 Kids Are Mentally Ill'? That's Madness ... Full story

BEST OF THE WEB U.S. News & World Report, Dec. 5 -- Ten years after its arrival, the Internet is still changing, and in the future, so-called push services "will deliver what you care about all of the time, or don't want to ignore," says Jun Yang, a computer science professor at Duke. ... Full story

CANCER VACCINE RESEARCH GETS A BOOST ABC News, HealthDay News, Nov. 25 -- Moving closer to the elusive goal of a cancer vaccine, Duke scientists say they've neutralized a class of immune cells that usually impair vaccine effectiveness. (Also carried by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and more than 97 news sources.) ... Full story

COMMENTARY: RIGHT TRACK ON IRAN America Abroad, Nov. 23 -- Sanford Institute professor Bruce Jentleson says the Bush administration strategy "may yet again veer off the right track on Iranian nuclear proliferation, but it's on it right now." ... Full story

PITTER-PATTER OF LITTLE FEET ISN'T FOR THEM Chicago Tribune, Nov. 27 -- Over history, social changes, technological breakthroughs or economic factors have made it possible or desirable to not have children. "Childlessness is not new," says Philip Morgan, a professor of sociology at Duke. ... Full story

ON THE AIR   Fuqua School of Business professor Campbell Harvey is scheduled to be interviewed by Canadian "Report on Business Television" Wednesday at 3:15 p.m. ET and discuss the Duke/CFO Magazine business outlook survey. Watch live web video. http://www.robtv.com/   Duke professor Dr. Tracy Gaudet talks Thursday about a holistic approach to women's health and her new book "Consciously Female" on the radio show "Waking Up With Carolyn Craft." Listen on Dec. 1 at 8 a.m. or 4 p.m. ET on Sirius Satellite Radio channel 114 or live on the web. The show will be rebroadcast on Saturday, Dec. 3, at 5 p.m. http://lime.com/