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Features

CAUTION: MERGE AHEAD by Kim Koster
As the rate of mergers and acquisitions acclerates, companies and consumers alike might do well to ask: Is bigger always better?

IN SEARCH OF CRUNCHY BROCCOLI by Robert J. Bliwise
A culinary dream team takes on a thouroughly daunting, if occaisionally tasty assignment -- sampling campus food, and discovering that it's not just tuna noodle casserole anymore

A DANGEROUS ALIENATION by Kirk Kicklighter
A political science professor surveys the armed forces and the American public, discovering a gaping chasm between civilian and military perceptions of society

ALL CREATURES GREAT AND FOSSILIZED by Michael Millstein
An Alaskan exipedition turns up intriguing evidence about dinosaurs -- raising a whole new set of questions while bringing the lost creatures vividly to life

THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING COMPUTER by Monte Basgall
Using DNA molecules, scientists are creating biomolecular structures to find solutions that elude the most powerful conventional computers

OFF TO ATHENS
A brief Grecian idyll spurs the imagination of a group of freshman scholars, who learn to appreciate the present in terms of a classical past


Departments

UNDER THE GARGOYLE
A teacher's enduring example

REGISTER
News of the Duke Alumni Association

GAZETTE
Quandries over drinking, transformations in the community, paintings for the museum

BOOKS
Signs and scions of the Times, plus books in brief

QUAD QUOTES
Revisiting the WTO, confronting the confederate flag



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