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Wildfires, notes Duke University fire ecologist Norm Christensen, have been erupting in the canyons and foothills of the coastal mountains for thousands of years. The recipe to produce them is as simple as it is effective. Take a tract of pine and fir trees or shrubby chaparral. Let it stand for several decades. Then wait for the winter rains to stop so the tinder can dry. At that point, a spark is all it takes to start a conflagration...
...listen to music, tell your Windows Media Player to bring up an artist or album, or call out commands like "Shuffle" or "Next track." Recognition stops shy of identifying individual songs, but it is freakily accurate when it comes to phone-book entries. The acid test: we entered Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski (pronounced She-shef-ski) into the phone book and asked the Pocket PC to bring it up. Out of several hundred entries, the software found Coach K instantly, no sweat. --By Wilson Rothman
Thank God I go to Harvard. A recent study conducted at Duke University found that its female students believe intellectual assertiveness and leadership make them unattractive in the eyes of their male peers. Many felt they received more attention from Duke men when they “dumbed down” their ambition and personalities—acting needy and hiding their real intelligence. “Being ‘cute’ trumps being smart for women in the social environment,” the report concluded...
It’s a disturbing finding, and as Harvard students—walking exemplars of egalitarian political correctness—it is tempting to write it off as a social dynamic exclusive to Duke. But before we accuse the Blue Devils of being trapped in a different era, perhaps we ought to examine the environment on our own campus...
Female students undoubtedly had the same kinds of credentials as their male counterparts when they applied to Harvard, yet once here, many seem to choose apathy over engagement. Could it be that Harvard females feel subjected to similar social pressures as our peers at Duke? While I’d like to believe that Harvard would have a better record, the lack of female presence in these influential groups does suggest we are at least not immune to the problem...