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The
potential of stem-cell research to crack open new avenues for the
cure of chronic, debilitating disease prompted President Bush's compromise—a
compromise that hardly shut off debate over issues of science and
ethics |
A
pre-eminent theological ethicist grapples with the church, the state,
the state of the church, and the responsibility of the religious community
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As
a child, Elizabeth Lonsdorf reveled in the work of pioneering primatologist
Jane Goodall; now she's observing chimpanzee behavior from Goodall's
base camp |
Graduate students must be driven by something deep to weather the long journey to a Ph.D., with very little money or time for outside interests along the way
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For nearly four decades, an environmental scientist has devoted research, advocacy, teaching, and writing to understand and protect what is left of the natural world
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A student islephile reflects on a summer of research in the wild
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François
Boucher, the eighteenth-century French artist, objected to the natural
world because it was "too green and badly lit." |
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Students'
wintry reading, a historian's verdict on fantasy |
That's
entertainment-TV comes to campus |
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Basketball
bashes and gallery
gatherings |
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A
record-breaking year for Rhodes selections, a
scholarship for terrorism's victims |
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Charting
the rawness of country music, sketching
the underside of the South |
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Collected
correspondence |
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Capturing
an athlete, hidden in plain sight, on campus |
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"You can't do science without getting your
hands wet and your fingernails dirty."
—President Nannerl O. Keohane,
at the opening ceremony for a new science learning center at E.K.
Powe Elementary School, a project facilitated in part by Duke's Office
of Community Affairs
"The segment was a wonderful human-interest story.... Many lives are saved as a result of losing weight in Durham."
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—Frank Neelon, endocrinology
professor and physician with the Rice Diet program at Duke, about
the 60 Minutes feature that aired January 6 on the "diet capital of
the world"; within three days, the Rice Diet office had received 4,000
e-mail messages and phone calls.
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