Duke in the News: June 13, 2006

DUKE PROFESSOR: RAPE CASE NEEDS NEW PROSECUTOR (Raleigh) News & Observer, June 13 -- A prominent DukeUniversity law professor suggests an independent prosecutor is needed in the lacrosse case. ... Full story --Also, New York Times, AP:  Duke Law Professor Wants Special Prosecutor ... Full story News & Observer: Law Professor James Coleman's Letter -- Special Prosecutor Should Take Over Duke Case ... Full story (Durham) Herald-Sun: Nifong's Lacrosse Subpoenas Come Under Fire ... Full story Kansas City Star: Taking Back Durham; Old Wounds and Exaggerations Collide ... Full story Duke News: A Letter From DSG to the Durham Community (by Elliott Wolf, the new student body president at Duke) ... Full text Denver Post: Sports Column by Terry Frei: Scandal? Duke Rises, CU Suffers ... Full story Wilmington Star-News: Column by Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times -- Quick to Judge, Slow to Retreat ... Full story News & Observer: Potential Durham DA Hopeful Says He's Far From a Decision ... Full story Diverse: Black Professors Under Pressure at Duke ... Full story Herald-Sun: Six Black Professors Departing From Duke ... Full story Duke News: Duke and Men's Lacrosse (special website with background information) Full story

CHURCH TO ADDRESS FALLOUT OVER GAY BISHOP (London) The Guardian, June 12 -- David Steinmetz, a Duke professor of Christian history, says no one knows "at this moment" whether the world Anglican Communion will break apart. (AP story also appeared in the Los Angeles Times and more than 150 other news outlets.) Full story

OPERATING ROOMS CLEARED FOR TAKEOFF News & Observer, June 13 -- Duke doctors turned to the airport for lessons in the logistics of running an efficient operating room and won an award for their innovative uses of information technology. ... Full story

BUSH FACES MOUNTING GUANTANAMO PRESSURE AFTER DETAINEE SUICIDES Bloomberg News, June 13 -- The growing clamor over the prison at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, may damage U.S. alliances in the war on terror, says Scott Silliman, a former U.S. Air Force lawyer who is now a law professor at Duke. ... Full story

OP-ED: ON WARMING, WILLIAMS IS 'JUST PLAIN WRONG' Herald-Sun, June 12 -- Thomas Crowley, a climate specialist in the Nicholas School of the Environment & Earth Sciences at Duke, says two popular pundits really go out on a limb in talking about global warming. ... Full story

THE DISAPPEARING CHINESE ENGINEERS Inside Higher Ed, June 13 -- Duke researchers who reviewed the numbers on technical degrees dampen the drum beat of doom and gloom for the future of American science and engineering. ... Full story --Also, Financial Times: Column by Guy de Jonquieres -- Asia Cannot Fill the World's Skills Gap ... Full story

GOOD NEWS FOR COUCH POTATOES CBS News The Early Show, June 12 -- Researchers at DukeUniversityMedicalCenter found that it doesn't take much exercise for those with an inactive lifestyle to turn things around and start reducing health risks. (with video) ... Full story