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...last years, assisted by Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky, Bok achieved a break-through in Afro-American Studies with the appointment of Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., who came to Harvard from Duke to chair Afro-American Studies and to direct the W.E.B. DuBois Institute. Professor Gates' vision of these studies has brought a new dynamism to the College and faculty, engaging students of all races in the courses, lecture programs and conferences of both institutions...
Ministers are often the first to see the dangers of supply-side spirituality. "Patterning the church after a mega-supermarket can only lead us to failure," warns Methodist D. Stephen Long of Duke University's Divinity School. "I'm not opposed to the churches using some marketing techniques, but I fear what is happening is that marketing techniques are beginning to use the church. We can't target groups we want for the church simply by locating points of desire. Somewhere there's got to be some judgment about whether these desires are appropriate." He rejects the notion that...
...North Carolina-Chapel Hill to championship form by wearing Carolina blue nail polish. This year she had to search for three days to find the right shade. Dr. Vann Austin, a doctor in Pinehurst, North Carolina, outfits himself, his 75-year-old mother, his girlfriend and his daughter in Duke undies when madness strikes. A starched Atlanta accountant, spied last week glued to a TV set, was asked about his work schedule in the midst of income-tax season. "It's all secondary to the N.C.A.A. tournament," he replied...
What TV rarely acknowledges is the aftermath. Few of the patients revived ever get well enough to leave the hospital -- and a study from Duke University Medical Center shows how few. Doctors monitored 146 very sick people given cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) over a three-year period. Only 58% could be revived at all, and of those who were, fully 95% stayed in the hospital, usually hooked up to life-support systems, until they died. Average cost: $150,000. The solution, say the Duke researchers, is to explain the consequences of resuscitation to seriously ill patients and listen to those...
Baseball at Duke...