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Features

VELOCITYby Philip Tinari
Technologies and practices once heralded as innovations have lost their novelty; magnetic strips, fiber-optic cables, and to-go dining establishments keep Duke students running from day to day

THE SEARCH FOR ISHI'S BRAINby Tom Patterson
An anthropologist's research on North America's "last wild Indian" set off a surprising chain of events, raising profound questions about relationships among whites and Native Americans, science, and indigenous tradition

A NEW YORK STATE OF LEARNING by Kirk Kicklighter
Through "Leadership and the Arts," students immerse themselves for a semester in the world of New York theater, dance, opera, music, visual arts, and philanthropy

THE READABLE RADICAL AFTER FIFTY by Mark I. Pinsky
A journalist reaches inward--and reaches out to his college friends--to answer the question, "How does a once-angry young man fairly keep score in middle age?"

UNDERWATER SLICES OF A VIOLENT EARTH by Monte Basgall
For three weeks this past spring, an expedition using sturdy submersible vehicles worked around the clock to explore the high-pressure depths west of the Galapagos Islands

VOICE OF AUTHORITY by Robert Odom
An opera singer has channeled the hard work and determination that fueled her singing career into her teaching


Departments

UNDER THE GARGOYLE
Impressions--and advice--after eleven continuous years at Duke and four different degrees

GAZETTE
A call for political engagement, a change in engineering, an archive of advertising

BOOKS
A transporting journey into Tibet

QUAD QUOTES
Students and their summer reading, theology and a Kennedy tragedy

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