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Naomi Schor, a Duke University professor specializing in 19th-century French literature, was appointed senior professor in March and will begin teaching in September...
...Testament scholars from this school point out that the Gospel writers made a crucial distinction between flesh and spirit. "They were talking not about the resurrection of the flesh but about the resurrection of Christ's selfhood, his essence," says Jackson Carroll, a professor of religion and society at Duke Divinity School. "The authors of the New Testament had experiences with an extraordinary person and extraordinary events, and they were trying to find ways to talk about all that. They weren't writing scientific history; they were writing faith history...
Researchers at Duke University say that the ailments collectively known as Gulf War Syndrome may have been caused by a combination of anti-nerve gas pills and insecticides given to soldiers to protect them from Iraqichemical weapons. In the $150,000 study, funded by Ross Perot, researchers gave chickens some of the combinations of chemicals that the soldiers were exposed to and found that in every case the chickens suffered nervous system damage similar to that experienced by the veterans. The preliminary findings have yet to be confirmed by further research. None of three previous studies conducted by Pentagon researchers...
Foxman said a pressing concern was the absenceof immediate condemnation of personalities such asDavid Duke and Pat Buchanan, who have madeanti-Semitic remarks...
Brown (2-3 overall) has yet to play an Ivy League game, but has faced off against some of the nation's top teams. The Bears lost to Duke 10-7, 13th ranked Hofstra, 10-9 in overtime, and Syracuse 13-12, and defeated Loyola, Md. 13-10. Brown opens league play this week hosting Yale (2-1, 4-2) Wednesday, and travelling to Princeton Saturday, for a clash of the League's only top-ten teams and the winners of the last four Ivy League championships (Brown 1991 and 1994, Princeton...