Duke University Alumni Magazine

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WHAT IT TAKES TO SHAPE A FUTURE by Robert J. Bliwise
How a university puts together a massive fund drive--an effort that becomes both an indication of ambition and of the ability to make good on that ambition
TREKKING THROUGH A CAREER by Eric Larson
For one writer and producer, Star Trek, an obsession for generations of television viewers, brings a refreshing dose of optimism in a cynical age

GETTING THERE AT WARP SPEED by Eric Larson
Eight months after submitting her first script, a novice heard from Hollywood executives --and saw the beginnings of her own Hollywood story

SURGICAL ART AND ARTIFICE by Dennis Meredith
While plastic surgeons work in the operating room and reshape skin, fat, muscle, and bone to correct defects, their scientist colleagues experiment in the laboratory to speed wound healing and engineer living tissue transfers

WEARY FEET, RESTED SOULS by Townsend Davis
Beginning with an innocent question to a clerk at a Birmingham hotel, a writer finds himself on a journey to document the places and personalities behind the civil-rights movement

TINSELTOWN FACTS AND FICTION by Dave Karger
Celebrity scoop: "Everyone is young, pretty, and fake; no one ever means what he or she says; anything hot today is ice-cold tomorrow."




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