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Stanfield Professor of International Peace Robert O. Keohane, whose wife Nannerl O. Keohane was recently appointed president of Duke University, has scheduled interviews this week with both Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...
Nathans, who worked at Duke University before coming to Harvard, says the issue of surveillance was never raised there...
...Several years ago, Duke installed the system. It was a system that worked very well and did help tremendously with the security problems on the campus," Nathans says...
Score of the Olympic men's basketball finals. The boast that the games showcase amateur athletics was never more hollow than when attached to the U.S. hoop squad. The Dream Team (the N.B.A. 11 best players plus Duke's Christian Laettner) naturally gave opponents the DTs. It was a brutal, pointless spectacle, akin to the Harlem Globetrotters doing their sideshow humiliation, for fun and profit, of a flat-footed pickup team...
...MOST DINNER FORKS HAVE FOUR tines? How did the zipper come about? Henry Petroski, the inquisitive engineering professor from Duke who gave us a history of The Pencil (it's more interesting than you would imagine), provides the answers in a lively new treatise on design called THE EVOLUTION OF USEFUL THINGS (Knopf; $24). In a lifetime, notes the author, the average adult will encounter 20,000 or more everyday objects, most of which are taken for granted. Petroski argues that form follows failure rather than function, meaning that the inadequacies of existing things have inspired inventors...