I left for Haiti five days after the earthquake.

For Stuart Pimm and his group of graduate students, the trip always begins the same way--with furious last-minute packing, a visit to CVS for anti-malarials, and a final powwow in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences.

Zeroing in: satellite images, from continent to forest

Last January, Mark Pike '04 and Blaise Dipersia '03, friends and former roommates, became co-proprietors of a model 21T color photo booth. The booth is located on the second floor of the Bryan Center, appropriately halfway between a row of vending machines and a film theater.

 

 

 

 

   

 

On the May morning I visited the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center in Moshi, Tanzania, Na-than Thielman M.D. '90, an epidemiologist and associate professor of medicine at Duke, was on duty in the HIV Clinic. He had arrived the night before on the 9:00 flight from Nairobi and by 7:00 a.m. was already seeing patients in a room the size of a coat closet.

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For the movie Van Helsing, Ed Kramer, who creates sophisticated computer graphics for George Lucas' Industrial Light & Magic, worked on shots of "hybrid" vampire brides--part human, part computer-simulation--similar to these:

On March 26, 1989, in East Rutherford,New Jersey, the Blue Devils won the East Regional Finals of the NCAA Tournament, defeating Georgetown 85-77 in overtime. Last November, they did it again, this time on a TV screen in the parking lot outside Wallace Wade stadium. Duke had just lost to N.C. State in football, but one group of middle-aged Duke fans--turtlenecks, cuffed khakis, wedding rings, penny loafers--refused to end the day in defeat.

People who post on the Duke Basketball Report site say they return again and again because they become part of a community where people feel not only connected but also, in some odd way, obligated to other people on the site. They don't just post comments for themselves, but often because someone else asks a question and they have the answer.

In early February, reverends, pastors, deacons, and other members of the clergy across the nation heard a call. Not from God, but from Kristin Clark and A.J. Thomas, M.Div.

 

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National Geographic, the gold standard of global photography, recently featured in its Explorers Hall in Washington the sort of shots it doesn't typically run in its own pages. The images were taken by photographers with fingers just long enough to reach the buttons and faces more likely to be in front of the lens than behind it.

  Reading List We asked professors of foreign languages and literature: What is your favorite book by a foreign author and which English translation is best in capturing the true spirit of the original?

 

    What occurred in the museum lootings in Iraq and how significant is this on a historical scale?  

 

 

 Pop Quiz We asked several students: What are your plans for the summer?

Someone unfamiliar with women's basketball might never have heard the name Goestenkors. This would be forgivable: Goestenkors is an unusual name, German and long and pronounced a bit differently (guess-ten-course) from the way it appears. And it would be understandable, given that the coach has risen so rapidly to the top that one might have seen just a blue streak of success.

 On the morning of April 10, a Thursday, David Fowler, owner of the Duke Barbershop, went to work in the basement of the West Union building as he has for the last forty-four years. By noon he had trimmed sides, thinned shags, snipped sprouts, flattened tops, shortened burns, and, generally, as they say in the trade, "lowered ears."

 

 

 

  

Boumpani: striking up the Pep Band. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Faith Goes to School The Duke Youth Academy, now in its second year, is a Bible-study camp--except that it's not a camp and the director, Fred Edie, is not the peace-sign-flashing, group-hug-giving type.

In a single week, the Supreme Court handed down two milestone rulings on capital punishment. On June 21, the Court declared that Americans' "evolving standards of decency" now argued against executing the mentally retarded.