Duke Magazine
Volume 93, No.4, July-August 2007

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On this month's cover:
Warm Planet, Hot Issues: Global climate change becomes a research imperative

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Duke Magazine-Feature Images Hot on the Trail of CO2 by Jeffrey Pollack
An alumnus with a degree in coastal environmental management and a "penchant for salty, sandy places" returns to the Nicholas School for fresh insights into the topic of our times-global climate change
Rhyme, Writing, Revenge, and All That Jazz
Excerpts that illustrate the robust thinking, wide-ranging interests, and creative reach of the most recent crop of award-winning graduates
Toast of the Town by Greg Veis
With a six-figure advance, an aggressively brokered two-book deal, and media buzz surrounding his rapid rise to fame, twenty-eight-year-old alumnus Dana Vachon ponders his future as the Next Big Thing
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Monument Canada
Retrospective
Retrospective: the East Campus wall
Update
'A Matter of Honor,' Duke Magazine, May-June 2001
Mini-Profiles
Mini-Profiles: Janice Kephart '86, tightening the country's porous borders
Student Snapshot
Student Snapshot- Seth Sheldon, providing comic relief
 
Between the Lines, thoughts by Robert J. Bliwise What better time to contemplate a warming planet, the cover theme, than at the peak point of a Durham summer?
A call for critical thinking about the digital world
The fallout from lacrosse, the search for athletic equity, the lure of community engagement
GM's chief for graduation, campus encounters through iTunes, another championship in golf, Sports: mental conditioning; Q&A: Iraq's constitutional quandaries; Campus Observer: wedding campouts; Syllabus: Hearing Is Believing I & II
Books A short-story collection that travels through time and space, plus Book Notes
RegisterPartners in education-in D.C. and Durham, student scholars with alumni ties; Career Corner: moving up the corporate hierarchy; Retrospective: a not-so-tall wall; mini-profiles: spearheading humanitarian efforts, working for homeland security, spotting travel trends

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Quad Quotes
"Write your own story. It is the greatest story you will ever tell. You can't change the ending, but what happens in between where you are now and the end is up to you."
Award-winning journalist Charlie Rose '64, J.D. '68, addressing graduates at the law school's annual hooding ceremony

"People are horrendous at judging how a particular person sees them, but reasonably good at perceiving how they come across in general."

Mark Leary, professor of psychology, on gauging strangers' first impressions, in Health
"In the end, it's about egregious conduct by the defendants that ruined a woman's career."

Erwin Chemerinsky, Alston & Bird Professor of law and a lawyer for former CIA agent Valerie Plame, urging a judge to allow her case against Bush administration officials to go forward, in The New York Times