Duke in the News: Oct. 3, 2006

WHY LAWYERS SEEK KENNEDY VOTE Wall Street Journal, Oct. 3 -- Duke law professor Erwin Chemerinsky says the case of the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, on the Supreme Court's fall docket, may touch conflicting strains in Justice Anthony Kennedy's jurisprudence. (Link for subscribers; e-mailed upon request to dukenews@duke.edu.) ... Full story for subscribers --Also, PBS NewsHour: Analysis -- Abortion, Race and Business Law on Supreme Court's New Term Docket (Walter Dellinger, Duke law school professor and former acting solicitor general under President Clinton) ... Full story Marketplace: Business on the High Court's Docket (Chemerinsky) ... Full story (Durham) Herald-Sun: Starr -- Watch Affirmative Action ... Full story Duke Chronicle: Starr Speaks on Roberts, Court ... Full story

BYPASS IS BEST FOR SICKEST HEART PATIENTS (Newark) Star-Ledger, Oct. 3 -- Patients with severe heart disease live longer if they receive bypass surgery as an initial treatment instead of undergoing angioplasty or just drug therapy, according to a new Duke study. ... Full story --Also, UPI: Patients With Bypass Surgery Live Longer ... Full story Ivanhoe Newswire: How Much is Your Life Worth? ... Full story

DUKE CHRISTENS NURSING BUILDING Duke Chronicle, Oct. 2 -- Members of the Duke community gathered Friday evening for a ribbon-cutting ceremony and dedication of Duke University's new 59,000-square-foot School of Nursing laboratory and classroom building. ... Full story

ANSWERS FALL SHORT FOR NAUSEA AFTER SURGERY The New York Times, Oct. 3 -- A central problem for those at Duke University and other medical centers who study postoperative pain is how to cure patients' postoperative nausea and vomiting. ... Full story

COMMENTARY: EXCEPTIONS ALSO MAKE INTERESTING FINDINGS News & Observer, Oct. 1 -- Duke Divinity School professor David Steinmetz says the exceptions between religious conservatism and political conservatism are as instructive as the correlations. ... Full story --Also, News & Observer: God as Fearsome Father? (Duke Divinity School Dean L. Gregory Jones) ... Full story (Greensboro) News & Record: The Thorn in the Side of Christian Complacency (Divinity School professor Stanley Hauerwas) ... Full story

CAFE CROWD SOAKS UP NANOTECH KNOWLEDGE News & Observer, Oct. 3 -- In a setting where "there are no stupid questions," the Duke chapter of Sigma Xi, a scientific research society, supports conversation about real science. ... Full story

LAETTNER GETS A STAKE IN GRIZZLIES Houston Chronicle, AP, Oct. 2 -- An investment group that includes Christian Laettner and former Duke teammate Brian Davis has agreed to buy 70 percent of the Memphis Grizzlies. ... Full story --Also, Duke Chronicle: Former Dukies to Buy Grizzlies ... Full story

PUBLIC 'SPIN SORROW' ISN'T IN SPIRIT OF YOM KIPPUR Winston-Salem Journal, Religion News Service, Sept. 30 -- Duke Divinity School Dean L. Gregory Jones says public opinion, not true repentance, often drives public apologies. ... Full story

BOOK REVIEW: GOOD OLD DAYS? The Christian Century, Sept. 19 -- "Growing Old in Christ," a collection of essays edited by Duke's Stanley Hauerwas and Dr. Keith G. Meador, among others, make a large distinction between the place of the old in society and their place in the church. ... Full story