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Departments
 For better or for worse-largely for worse-the detainee camp at Guantánamo Bay has been a newsmaker. |
 Engineering by the numbers |
 Trials of Darwin, objections to Belafonte, constraints on construction
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 Inspiring graduates, reinstating lacrosse, embodying poetry, envisioning invisibility;
Campus Observer: making beds with the green team;
Sports: more golfing glories, and a near miss for women's lacrosse;
Syllabus: GER 173/ENG 146/LIT 151E: Fairy Tales: Grimms to Disney |
 Louis Armstrong and a new American art form, plus Book Notes
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 A presidential term under way, a distinguished teacher recognized, a journalist honored; Career
Corner: effective interviewing;
Retrospective: hurricane memories; mini-profiles: pleasures of biking, poetry of place, master of reality TV |
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"I anticipate that, within a very short
number of years, students will be coming to the university with
cell phones that are MP3 players, that can store 80 hours of video,
and that are ubiquitously connected to the wireless network of
the campus. At that point, we won't have to pay for these devices."
--Julian Lombardi, assistant
vice president for academic services and technology support,
on Duke's decision to scale back its iPod initiative, in
The Chronicle of Higher Education
"Apparently the prisoners
detested going on the treadmill, but now people
pay a lot of money to do the same thing and happily
waste electricity in the process."
--Steven
Vogel, James B. Duke Professor of biology,
on the 19th-century British practice of forcing
prison inmates to walk on treadmills to generate
power, an idea Scottish scientists are hoping
to apply to generate electricity in modern-day
gyms, in The Times of London
"It's like letting
CEOs bet on a race when they know who the winner
will be."
--James Cox,
Brainerd Currie Professor of law, on the practice
of "back dating" stock-option awards
used by some executives, on Reuters.com |
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