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Features

BREAKING DOWN BARRlERS by Bridget Booher
As disabled students enroll in greater numbers at colleges and universities, they are discovering a wide range of services and accommodations -- along with misperceptions about their capabilities

BUILDlNG A BETTER MOUSE by Dennis Meredith
Some 30,000 mice housed in Duke's Transgenic Mouse Facility live in such scrupulously sterile splendor because their altered genes harbor fundamental secrets that could help save millions of human lives
WHAT MAKES A HERO? by Robert J. Bliwise
Homeric, historic, or pop-oriented, heroes are born, made, and then remade to satisfy our yearning for exemplars

WHAT WAS THE QUESTION AGAIN? by Paul Baennan
An ethical gathering: celebrating thirty-five years of a professor's contributions to the examined life

A LEGACY OF GARDEN DESIGN by Sam Hull
Ellen Biddle Shipman, the landscape architect who designed the Sarah B. Duke Gardens, is celebrated with both an exhibit and a spring symposium

RESCUING BLACK WOMEN'S HISTORY by Georgann Eubanks
"I guess I am just drawn to courage," says Paula Giddings, who has redefined cultural studies and explored the forces that drive people to act on their convictions


Departments

UNDER THE GARGOYLE
A team that competes on its own terms

GAZETTE
Environmental endowments, athletic additions, Brazilian brainstorming, Russian rambles

BOOKS
A melange of notables

QUAD QUOTES
Recommendations for readers, revelations for freshmen


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