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PLEADED GUILTY. RANDY (DUKE) CUNNINGHAM, 63, eight-term Congressman from California; to accepting $2.4 million in bribes, mostly from military contractors, that included a Rolls-Royce, an antique French commode and mortgage payments; in San Diego. The former Top Gun instructor and tough-on-crime Republican, who for months insisted he was innocent--and now faces up to 10 years in prison--stunned even jaded Beltway insiders with his brazenness. In a tearful confession, he said, "I learned in Vietnam that the true measure of a man is how he responds to adversity. I cannot undo what I have done...
...three most prevalent criticisms of the Corporation: that it is too white, too male, and too corporate. She will become the second woman on the Corporation and just the third in the board’s history, joining Nannerl O. Keohane, the former president of Wellesley College and Duke University...
Meanwhile, U.S. scientists made progress in the field without having to sacrifice human eggs or embryonic tissue. At Duke University, doctors used umbilical-cord blood to save babies born with Krabbe disease, a rare and usually fatal genetic disorder. The illness, which prevents brain development and causes rapid deterioration and death, was immediately halted by transplanting another baby's cord blood--and the stem cells it contained-- into infants with the Krabbe defect...
...consider Holy Cross the Duke of the low mid-major teams in the country,” coach Frank Sullivan said. “A win over a quality team on the road in our first road game should really help us with our confidence...
GOOD FOR GOOSE, NOT FOR GANDER A Duke University analysis of 95,456 patients reports that taking regular low doses of aspirin reduces the risk of stroke in women...