Jul - Aug 2002 Issue

    Prime Mover: A Natural History of Muscle By Steven Vogel Norton Press, 2001. 370 pages, $12.95.

 

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The second World Trade Center tower had just collapsed and the Pentagon was in flames when Duke's Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) went to work staffing a special bank of phones set up to provide psychological assistance. "Although we answered general calls," says CAPS director James Clack, "our staff members handled some calls where people were having a hysterical response."

 On Valentine's Day in 1976, Henry Baker (not his real name) was passing by the convenience store near his home on the outskirts of a small eastern North Carolina town when he noticed an usual a

 

Beyond Tourism • DAA:Changing of the Guard • Honoring Engineering Alumni

Adorning the walls of his East Campus office are three paintings from the Duke art museum's permanent collection. One, a somber, disfigured nude in dark hues, was painted by a Duke art student in the late Sixties, shortly before his suicide. This is the favorite, the one he asked for; the other two were there already when he moved in 1993 from his earlier perch in the Allen Building.

Mini-Profiles1. The Teacher and The French Shepherdess2. Bringing 'Me' and 'We' Together3. Exploring the Psyche of Terrorism

Beyond Tourism • DAA:Changing of the Guard • Honoring Engineering Alumni

Long before the energy price shock of 2000, even before the oil embargo of the 1970s, Arnie Katz was committed to energy efficiency.

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You can find William Haefeli in the pits. Or at least you can find him in the neighborhood of the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles. There, as a city guidebook reports, "a large pool of smelly tar (la brea in Spanish) surrounds full-size models of mastodons struggling to free themselves from the grimy muck, a re-creation of prehistoric times, when such creatures tried to drink from the thin layer of water covering the tar in the pits, only to become entrapped."

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1. Pop Quiz 2. Ask the Expert 3. Reading List

As the morning sun spreads summer warmth onto meadows and ponds, the fearsome hunters prepare for launch, whirring their membranous wings to warm flight muscles for the day's hunt. Muscles taut, they vault into the air. They are gossamer death, skimming the landscape, their bulbous eyes enabling a panoramic view as they search for the slightest glint of prey. A river cruiser acrobatically flips its streamlined body, swooping to snag a mosquito in mid-flight for an aerial meal. A powdered dancer deftly dives to bring an untimely end to a plump housefly more than half its size.

 

UpdateA Scientist in Full "Singing in the Brain," Duke Magazine, November-December 2001

Garman: searching for alternatives at the DOE

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Mini-Profiles1. The Teacher and The French Shepherdess2. Bringing 'Me' and 'We' Together3. Exploring the Psyche of Terrorism

Student SnapshotRacing Robots, Underwater - Stephen Hsu, graduate student

Mini-Profiles1. The Teacher and The French Shepherdess2. Bringing 'Me' and 'We' Together3. Exploring the Psyche of Terrorism

 

SyllabusPhysics 37 Physics of Forensics  

Billion Dollar Budget •  Business Moves Up

Billion Dollar Budget •  Business Moves Up

Billion Dollar Budget •  Business Moves Up

Billion Dollar Budget •  Business Moves Up

Beyond Tourism • DAA:Changing of the Guard • Honoring Engineering Alumni

Billion Dollar Budget •  Business Moves Up

Billion Dollar Budget •  Business Moves Up

Gallery1. Shadow Catching - Selections from the Duke Library 2. Impost Capital -Selections from DUMA

  Bryan Edwards