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Features

A MUSIC FREE-FOR-ALL by Robert J. Bliwise
A popular music-sharing service gives rise to legal wrangling, ethical concerns, and debate over the future of the record industry

LISTENING TO OUR ELDERS by Eric Larson
With projects like the National Long Term Care Survey, demographers rack up statistics on aging and health, and make some surprising discoveries about getting older and better

LEARNING FOR THE LOVE OF IT by Kim Koster
As advocates of Duke's graduate Liberal Studies program see it, lifelong learning "doesn't mean something one does in one's leisure hours anymore"
SEEING THE FOREST FOR THE TREES by Monte Basgall
The 8,300-acre Duke Forest has been radar-mapped from orbit, overgassed with carbon dioxide, and analyzed for natural contributors to ozone pollution

THE GOVERNMENT GURU OF HEALTH CARE by Carolyn Kleiner
As a congressional staffer, lawyer, and government appointee, Timothy Westmoreland has dealt with virtually every important public-health and health-finance matter of our time


Departments

UNDER THE GARGOYLE
Presidential thoughts on drinking and destructiveness

REGISTER
Introducing a new DAA president; reporting on the year's alumni activities; mini-profiles: an auto-racing entrepreneur, a portable pundit, a teacher role-model

GAZETTE
A garden for peace, an expansion for engineering, a home for the Franklin Center

FORUM
Perkins' answers, freedom's limits, religion's mysteries

BOOKS
Eating with enthusiasm, suffering without pain

QUAD QUOTES
Third-party futures, website favorites




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