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...help doctors detect ischemia, or lack of blood flow to the cardiac muscle, can be performed using either echocardiograms or nuclear scans. "Echocardiograms and nuclear perfusion scanning are the bread and butter of cardiac care," says Dr. Pamela Douglas, chief of cardiovascular medicine at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C., and president of the American College of Cardiology. "They aren't going away anytime soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How New Heart-Scanning Technology Could Save Your Life | 8/28/2005 | See Source »

...curriculum for adolescents led him eight years ago to become a trainer for Rite 13, a program modeled on bar and bat mitzvahs as well as Native American vision quests and African rites of passage. The program began in the early 1990s at St. Philip's Episcopal Church in Durham, N.C. Parishioners there were worried that their confirmation ceremonies were functioning more as exit interviews, one last sacrament before 13-year-olds inevitably succumbed to secularism and left the church. The solution, they decided, was a two-year program welcoming adolescents into the community with equal doses of mentorship, Scripture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feels Like Teen Spirit | 8/1/2005 | See Source »

...nature of the vandal, who is as difficult to define as he is to catch. In New York City, for example, police make arrests in only 2% to 3% of all reported cases. The vandal's deeds, as British Sociologist Stanley Cohen of England's University of Durham has observed, are commonly described as wanton, pointless, aimless, senseless, meaningless or mindless. Cohen is one of several social scientists who think that none of these objectives really apply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Vandal: Society's Outsider | 6/27/2005 | See Source »

Your article was hilarious. I cannot imagine any man or woman not knowing where his or her erogenous zones are. It is a matter of partners' communicating with one another. Richard Freeman Prentis Durham, N.C. Past Sins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 24, 1986 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...very least, the article created consternation on our campus at a time when our immense pride in the team is recovering from the pain of defeat. William L. Green Vice President for University Relations Duke University Durham, N.C. Jackson's PUSH...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 5, 1986 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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