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Ex-laxers sue Nifong, city, DPD
Civil rights suit asks for money, reforms
by Chelsea Allison in News
Attorneys representing Reade Seligmann, Collin Finnerty and David Evans, Trinity '06, filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Friday against the city of Durham and 13 individuals who helped prolong the rape case in which the three were falsely accused.
Three students robbed off East Campus
by Nate Freeman
Durham Police Department officers responded to an armed robbery involving a female undergraduate and two male graduate students that occurred outside the Whole Foods Market on Broad Street in Durham early Tuesday morning.
Duke sees few big-name speakers
by Kevin Lincoln
When Columbia University invited Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak on its campus Sept. 24, the institution welcomed a man who openly opposes United States foreign policy, suppresses the voice of intellectuals and dissidents in his country and denies that the Holocaust happened.
UNC prof receives Nobel for genetics
by Staff Reports
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researcher Oliver Smithies was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize for medicine Monday.
Center blocks global warming
by Hon Lung Chu
"I think [global warming is] an issue that everyone needs to be aware of," Rumsey said. "It's something I felt like I want to be involved in."
Drug examples enliven science classes
by Deborah Wei
A team of Duke researchers has demonstrated that the use of teaching modules, which use drug-related topics to teach biology and chemistry, improved high school students' test scores by 16 percent. Data from 7,210 students across the nation showed that those who used one or more modules received higher scores on 20-question tests of basic scientific knowledge than those who did not use the modules.
