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GIVING VOICE TO THE CAMPUS CONSCIENCE by Paul Baerman
As it works to ensure that Duke-related merchandise isn't rooted in sweatshop labor, a student group finds some unexpected allies

BUGGED BY THE MILLENNIUM by Monte Basgall
With computer devices primed for dysfunction, we may be facing what Byte magazine calls "a crisis without precedent in human history"

A NEW GLOBAL MODEL by Tom Patterson
A geographer and a historian are challenging traditional understandings of how-- and why--the world is divided into continents

INVESTING IN AFRICA'S FUTURE by John Manuel
"South Africa is just like the U.S. at the end of World War II," says a young entrepreneur. "If you could turn back the clock fifty years and invest in that market, wouldn't you?"

THE BEST FROM THE BRIGHTESTby Eric Larson
The odds of winning Duke's most prestigious merit scholarship are close to lottery standards; but while lotteries seem to produce a number of wrecked souls, the A.B. Duke almost always affects lives for the better

EXPORTING HELP AND HOPE by Brendan Daly
Just what makes the Peace Corps endure--and makes contributing to overseas projects "the toughest job they'll ever love" for those who volunteer?

CLASSROOM CORPS by Jaime Levy
Teach for America is proving that a seasoned, rigid instructor is not necessarily fundamental to a successful classroom


Departments

UNDER THE GARGOYLE
Across the continuum: graduate student futures

GAZETTE
The habits of readers, the dimensions of philanthropy, the resiliency of forests, the origins of speech

BOOKS
A woman's life in a first novel, a scientist's stories in a reader-friendly survey

QUAD QUOTES
Freshman impressions, presidential counsel, best-selling textbooks


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