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PREVENTING POISONED MINDS by Dennis Meredith
By researching the results of bad habits and other neurological villains, a Duke pharmacologist has discovered how certain chemicals insidiously damage the developing brain

OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE CALLING by Robert J. Bliwise
Students are put through practice interviews, finalists are identified, and professors assigned to work at refining interview techniques and personal essays-- all toward the holiest of academic grails
AVOIDING LEGAL PERILS by Bridget Booher
From monitoring campus crime to grappling with affirmative action, from ensuring that classrooms are accessible to complying with Title IX, universities face a daunting set of legal challenges

FROM ENGINEER TO IMAGINEER by Sarah M. Brown
Having overseen the designs for resort hotels, Florida's newest city, and a world-class zoo, a Disney executive is about to launch a luxury liner

MANAGING A VAST MENAGERIE by Bridget Booher
It's an elephantine task for the conservation and science director at Disney's Animal Kingdom
ART AND THE BLACK AESTHETIC by Tom Patterson
"Information, art, and ideas have no reins on them," says a Duke professor whose ground-breaking scholarship in African-American art history shows the interconnections among cultural traditions


Departments

FORUM
Disagreeing about disabilities, validating--and questioning--the Vigil

GAZETTE
Presidential pronouncements for commencement, an upgrade for a neighborhood, a name for a Cameron addition

BOOKS
Philosophical storytelling in Cuba, apocalyptic events in Lisbon

QUAD QUOTES
Summer reading, academic-year issues


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