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CHICAGO: As anyone wrestling with nicotine addiction knows, that first day can seem an eternity. Now, researchers studying the effectiveness of the nicotine patch are placing odds on whether your first tobacco-free 24 hours will really last forever. Researchers at Duke University Medical Center and the Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center studied 200 smokers who buttressed their "quit day" by starting on a nicotine patch program. Those who broke down and cheated that first day were "10 times more likely to be smoking" in the long run, said one of the researchers, Dr. Eric Westman of Durham, N.C. "This...
Only a few years ago, the college game was a very different one. Players, no matter how talented, stayed in school until graduation. Duke's remarkable run of Final Fours and National Championships was made possible by the four-year careers of such stars as Christian Laettner and Grant Hill. Today, it is difficult to imagine such talents foresaking the NBA until graduation...
...only was the Duke dynasty exciting, it also allowed fans to "get to know" the team. Watching the same players for a number of years gave fans the opportunity to develop favorites and villians--there were many who enjoyed hating Laettner's brashness and late-game heroics...
Another player facing the same problems as Kohler is Duke senior Brian Kelly, the Metrostars' first-round pick, and like Kohler a veteran of Pennsylvania's high school soccer scene. "[Kelly] is also a left-footed attacking player," says Kohler--"obviously, the Metrostars knew what position they wanted to fill in the draft...
...Duke star Brian Kelly (first-round pick of the Metrostars...