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Volume 96, No.1, January-February 2010

On this month's cover:
Dog Tales from Congnitive Science: What an evolutionary anthropologist can learn from exploring the human-canine bond.

Why Dogs Love Us

by Robert J. Bliwise

In his new Duke Canine Cognition Center, evolutionary anthropologist Brian Hare explores the bonds that, over thousands of years, have linked dogs and humans

Web Extra: Hare demonstrates his experiments for Time.

Go Figure

by Bridget Booher

The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition may be the most intensely difficult intellectual contest ever designed for undergraduates

Web Extra: Senior Matt Rognlie demonstrates a problem from the 2008 competition in this exlusive video.

The End of Civilization as We Know It?

A Duke Magazine Forum grapples with the future of reading, including the central question of technology's impact on how, what, and why we read

Web Extra: Watch excerpts from the panel in exclusive videos.

Special Section

Departments

Between the Lines, by Robert J. Bliwise In The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age, Sven Birkerts writes about reading as "a dynamic condition."

Forum Wall Street ethics, marching-band proprieties, feel-good clothing

Gazette Climate-neutral commitment, online diplomacy, nanoparticle targeting; Campus Observer: collections conservation

Books Windows into the world of William Styron

Alumni Register Engaging alumni, honoring fallen warriors; Retrospective: a water-spouting campus centerpiece; mini-profiles: inveterate adventurer, underwater wit, cooking chronicler

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