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Duke in the News: Nov. 19, 2007

Duke Offers $596M Hospital Plan | Sanctions Against Iran: Difficult but Doable | Scanner Psych, and more

DUKE OFFERS $596M HOSPITAL PLAN (Raleigh) News & Observer, Nov. 17 -- Duke University Health System has proposed the biggest expansion at its flagship hospital in a quarter century to keep pace with a growing and aging population. ... Full story --Also, (Durham) Herald-Sun: Duke Health System Files for $596M Facility ... Full story MSN Money, Triangle Business Journal: Duke Wants $596M Hospital Expansion ... Full story Duke Med News: Duke Files Certificate of Need for Hospital Expansion ... Full story

SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAN: DIFFICULT BUT DOABLE News & Observer, Nov. 18 -- Bruce W. Jentleson, a professor of public policy and political science at Duke, writes about the necessity of imposing sanctions on Iran in order to stop nuclear proliferation. ... Full story

SCANNER PSYCH Boston Globe, Nov. 18 -- Duke researchers report on why the human brain is bad at screening baggage, and how video games might help. (Also reported in the Wall Street Journal's "Informed Reader" column today.) ... Full story

DUKE GREATS AMONG THOSE HONORED BY COLLEGE HALL New York Times, AP, Nov. 18 -- Former Duke basketball star Dick Groat, former Duke coaching great Vic Bubas, and Duke alumnus and former Maryland coach Lefty Driesell were among those inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame on Sunday. ... Full story --Also, Kansas City Star: Shortstop Groat Left Heart at Duke ... Full story

MEXICO'S FOX: BUILD BRIDGES, NOT WALLS News & Observer, Nov. 18 -- Promoting immigration, instead of creating policies against it, will help the United States maintain its status as the world's top economy, former Mexican president Vicente Fox told a group of Duke business school graduates Saturday. ... Full story

THE SLEEP-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX New York Times Magazine, Nov. 18 -- Dr. Andrew Krystal, a Duke psychiatrist, and Jack Edinger, a professor of medical psychiatry at Duke, are among scientists who have been hard at work on our sleep problems. ... Full story

BOOK REVIEW: HE AIMED AT THE STARS BUT HIT LONDON New York Times Book Review, Nov. 18 -- Duke historian Alex Roland reviews Michael J. Neufeld's "Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War," about the visionary German rocket scientist and Nazi missile designer. ... Full story

BHADRA RELIEF PACKAGE DECLARED THE BEST (India) The Hindu, November 16 -- The relocation of forest dwellers from the Bhadra tiger reserve in India is the best option for preventing man-animal conflicts and increasing the big cats' chance of survival, according to a paper by Duke researcher Krithi Karanth. ... Full story