Word: duking
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DURHAM, N.C.--Two Duke University seniors last week filed complaints with the U.S. Department of Education charging that Duke discriminates against women in housing, athletics and recruitment of faculty...
...year salary. He made the show a success, and he still works 14 or 15 hours a day, preparing for interviews and deciding who and what will be on the show. Though he has no experience in journalism, Hartman, who earned a degree in economics from Duke, has a characteristic required of any good journalist: curiosity. "His appeal is that he seems genuinely interested in the world," says his new competitor, Kuralt. "He is quite good at what he does...
Narrator Tell Sackett is illiterate and speaks with a clanking formality that sounds like John Wayne's movie lines ("It is a hard land, ma'am, and we'll have no truck with those who come with idle hands"). The Duke, in fact, played the title role in Hondo, from the novel of the same name, one of more than 30 L'Amour books bought for the screen...
Moll also intends to compete on price, since the yearly cost at state-supported Santa Cruz is as low as $3,400 for Californians. Says he: "Any number of families will strain to get the money for Stanford or Harvard or perhaps Duke. I'm not certain that those families will strain as hard to get $8,500 or more for less prestigious private colleges such as Skidmore or Vanderbilt or Boston University - superb as those institutions are. Here sits a state university that feels like one of those private colleges, at a lower price...
...Physiologist Knut Schmidt-Nielsen of Duke University and Israeli Zoologist Amiram Shkolnik have explained another dromedary ploy: its ability to exhale far less water than even other desert animals. For 16 days the scientists kept two camels standing in peak temperatures of 40° C (104° F) without water at an Israeli kibbutz near the Dead Sea. After about ten days the camels' nightly exhalations became dryer, showing that they were saving water...