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Volume 94, No.2, March-April 2008

On this month's cover:
Fine Feathers: Zooming in on avian activity

Speaking Libertarian Lingua Franca, by Josh Harkinson

Republican Ron Paul's presidential bid fell short. He never won a Republican primary or polled better than 6 percent nationally. But he engaged voters in ways no other Republican dared and no Libertarian had thought to try. Read the full story here and in the May-June issue of Duke Magazine, coming soon.

	"Suddenly, a rustle in a shrub and a flurry of binocular action": The insider's guide to birding around campus
	Policies in place over the decades have made the campus climate more welcoming for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, but some say acceptance is still a goal unrealized
After nearly three decades at Duke, the coach who built a championship men's soccer program works to keep his team upbeat and focused as they ride the roller coaster of his final season
Filmmaker Nathaniel Kahn and his latest subject, classical pianist Leon Fleisher, talk about the joys, mysteries, and tribulations that underlie creative expression

Departments

One of this issue's stories explores gay life on campus. There's a story behind that story: a national campaign that began at Duke.

Is our future drying up?

Building mistakes, jazz conversations, speaker controversies

Aid for international students, growth for faculty ranks, honors for senior scholars, showcase for Spanish masters; Q&A: understanding the appendix; Campus Observer: band members play on

Japan's exotic actor, North Carolina's literary life

105,000 dribbles of a basketball, endless archives of photos, Career Corner: lawyerly skills; Retrospective: the Duke Blue Devil's image makeovers; mini-profiles: protecting fragile turtles, uncovering Shakespearean secrets, defying media expectations

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By The Numbers-Duke Student Health Center

"The real concern from an environmental point of view is that high oil prices also mean that even more-polluting potential sources of liquid fuel start to become economically competitive. For example, you can make liquid fuels from coal."
—Richard Newell, Gendell Associate Professor of energy and environmental economics, on why higher oil prices-and thus less driving-do not necessarily mean less pollution, on NPR's All Things Considered

"She was a controversial leader who had strengths and weaknesses like many leaders.... We shouldn't overstress that she was the solution to Pakistan's problems, but her assassination clearly exacerbates and worsens Pakistan's problems."."

—Bruce Jentleson, professor of public policy studies and political science, on the assassination of Pakistani presidential candidate Benazir Bhutto, in The News & Observer

"When you take away language from a human during a math task like this, they end up looking just like a monkey."

—Jessica Cantlon, a Ph.D. candidate in psychology and neuroscience, on a study she co-authored in which monkeys performed almost as well as Duke students at a math task that involved estimating sums, on NPR's Morning Edition