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Duke in the News: Dec. 5, 2006

Op-Ed: Benedict XVI Faces Mecca | Black Student Enrollment at Top Colleges | Where Is the Roberts Court on Race? | and more!

OP-ED: BENEDICT XVI FACES MECCA Orlando Sentinel, Dec. 5 -- When Pope Benedict XVI faced Mecca and prayed silently in the famous Blue Mosque of Istanbul he "pointed toward the possibility of a new and better future" for interfaith dialogue, says Duke Divinity School professor David C. Steinmetz. ... Fulll story

BLACK STUDENT ENROLLMENT AT TOP COLLEGES Chronicle of Higher Education, Dec. 5 -- Duke ranks third among top U.S. schools in the percentage of incoming African-American students, according to The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education's annual report on the topic. ... Full story

WHERE IS THE ROBERTS COURT ON RACE? Newsweek, Dec. 1 -- Neil Siegel, a Duke professor of law and political science, says the Supreme Court's ruling in two cases on race-conscious school assignment plans could mark the final legacy of Brown v. Board of Education. ... Full story

CHILDREN AT DUKE FIGHT FOOD ALLERGIES (Raleigh) News & Observer, Dec. 5 -- In severely allergic children, a trace of peanut or smidgen of egg can trigger a deadly reaction. But new research by Duke physicians suggests a way out: feeding children gradually increasing amounts of the foods that sicken them. ... Full story

FIVE VIEWS ON IRAQ Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Dec. 3 -- One Iraqi nation, indivisible? Probably not, says Alexander Downes, assistant professor of political science at Duke. ... Full story

TEENS GET A SCIENCE PRIZE News & Observer, Dec. 5 -- A pair of North Carolina teenagers mentored by Lingchong You and Jingdong Tian of Duke's Department of Biomedical Engineering, have won third place in one of the nation's premier high school science competitions. ... Full story

THE WORD THAT IS THE VERY DEFINITION OF UNSPEAKABLE Washington Post, Dec. 2 -- Mark Anthony Neal, an associate professor of black popular culture at Duke, says the nation's ugliest black pejorative should be policed in most media but not deleted from the culture altogether. ... Full story

WHO WANTS TO BE AN AMERICAN? Slate, Dec. 1 -- Noah Pickus, associate director of Duke's Kenan Institute for Ethics, helps "The Explainer" answer a question prompted by the Department of Homeland Security's release last week of sample questions from a new version of the naturalization test. ... Full story

OP-ED: THE IRAQ ALTERNATIVE Wall Street Journal Asia, Dec. 5 -- Donald Horowitz, a professor of law and political science at Duke, argues that the only chance for peace in Iraq lies in the creation of "an undivided federal Iraq." (Link for subscribers; e-mailed upon request to dukenews@duke.edu.) ... Full story for subscribers

ON THE AIR Duke law professor Barak Richman joins a discussion Tuesday on North Carolina Public Radio's "The State of Things" about the successes and failures of consumer boycotts. Details Duke President Richard H. Brodhead's recent address to the City Club of Cleveland, titled "What Universities Are Good For," will be broadcast on Time-Warner Cable (Durham Cable Channel 8) at the following times: 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 5; 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 6; and 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 9. ... Watch web video