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Duke in the News: Jan. 4, 2006

Nanocircuits Self-Build From DNA | Creator God: The Debate on Intelligent Design | For Exercise, Think More -- Not Harder, and more!

NANOCIRCUITS SELF-BUILD FROM DNA Electronic Engineering Times, Jan. 2 -- Just as a poem is composed from a toolbox of 26 characters or a fugue from a 12-tone scale, molecular-scale chips will one day be built from the four-letter alphabet of DNA, Duke electrical engineering professor Chris Dwyer believes. Full story --Also, Technology Review: DNA Building Blocks (Dwyer comments.) ... Full story

CREATOR GOD: THE DEBATE ON INTELLIGENT DESIGN The Christian Century, Dec. 27 -- Duke Divinity School professor David C. Steinmetz, who wrote the magazine's cover story, says the "good news is that mainline churches are not going to join the fundamentalist jihad against evolution. But that does not mean they can be indifferent to the doctrine of creation." ... Full story

FOR EXERCISE, THINK MORE -- NOT HARDER Orlando Sentinel, Jan. 4 -- A study by Duke researchers suggests that more exercise may be better than harder exercise at improving fitness. (Orginally in the Hartford Courant.) Full story

CAN SONAR, SEA LIFE MIX? (Raleigh) News & Observer, Jan. 3 -- Andy Read, a Duke marine mammal biologist based in Beaufort, is among a group of North Carolina researchers trying to land a contract with the Navy to monitor animals moving through a sonar training range site before and after exercises start there. ... Full story

MISSION TO HAITI A LIFE-CHANGER (Durham) Herald-Sun, Jan. 4 -- April Perry, a pediatric cardiology nurse at Duke Medical Center, never intended to write a book about her medical mission work in Haiti. But the last 15 months changed that. ... Full story

GUEST COLUMN: GULF TOWNS PROGRESS The Chapel Hill News, Jan. 3 -- Benjamin Schaefer Abram, a Duke junior, offers anecdotal evidence of what some call "new normal" life in Biloxi, Miss. ... Full story

HOOP DREAMS OF 10-YEAR-OLD ALL ABOUT DUKE The (Fort Wayne, Ind.) Journal Gazette, Dec. 31 -- Grant Sinn is determined to play basketball for Duke someday. Never mind that he's only 10. ... Full story

ON THE AIR On Wednesday's edition of "The State of Things" on WUNC Radio, Duke history professor emeritus John Hope Franklin was interviewed about his new autobiography "Mirror To America" and his life as one of the 20th Century's preeminent scholars. Listen to a rebroadcast at 9 p.m. ET or later to archived web audio. ... Details