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Volume 95, No.1, January-February 2009

ARCHIVE EDITION

On this month's cover:
A Different Time, A Different War: Looking back on World War II through the eyes of those who fought.

	Over the course of World War II, 7,000 alumni served in the various branches of the armed forces; here they reflect on the events that changed them, and the world, forever Web Extras: Read additional reflections not featured in print and view a Google map with wartime stories & photos, also; submit your World War II experiences.
As head of the FCC, alumnus Kevin Martin has tackled issues as controversial as when to allow dirty words on television and how to rein in cable companies Web Extra: Read FCC chair Kevin Martin’s responses to the biggest broadcasting controversies in recent years.
The Duke Marine Lab exudes an intensity in its teaching and research, even as it shows a more modest profile than Duke's self-consciously splendid main campus Web Extra: Watch videos about coastal research from Duke Marine Lab faculty members.

Departments

In the November 1941 Alumni Register, Duke President Robert L. Flowers pondered the war raging overseas. "[W]hatever may be the outcome," he said, "the world as we know it will not be the same." Almost seven decades later, we asked alumni to reflect on a conflict that remade the world—and their own lives.

Ruminating on rankings

Baseball memories, robot fears, libertarian virtues

Securing financial aid, becoming a Rhodes Scholar, documenting global soccer, displaying whale research; Sports: the mathematics of dart-throwing; Q&A: telling history and studying genetics; Campus Observer: plant invasion

Web Extra: Get links to online content related to stories in Gazette.

Book Notes: Russian media, humanitarian stories, cultural obsessions, and more

Homecoming highlights, community partnerships, Mary Lou Williams memories; Retrospective: grave matters; mini-profiles: rookie firefighter, supreme biographer, champion storyteller

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