Scientists elucidate pheromone operation
(03/05/03 5:00am)
The enigmatic ways in which some animals communicate via chemicals just became a little clearer.
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The enigmatic ways in which some animals communicate via chemicals just became a little clearer.
In the year 2000, an estimated 5.3 million people were newly infected with HIV, and researchers around the country struggled to find an HIV vaccine. From San Francisco to Boston to Durham, the struggle continues as researchers try to find a way to either prevent or contain the virus.
Many Central Campus residents have shifted their food point spending from grocery stores to processed food vendors this fall, and University grocery stores have taken a big hit, said Associate Vice President for Auxiliary Services Joe Pietrantoni. After examining student spending trends for the 1999 and 2000 fall semesters, Pietrantoni found that although students spent 1 percent more points this fall than last, campus grocery stores have seen drastically lower revenue.
This semester, thanks to Lilly Library's tentative new circulation policy, Duke undergraduates, graduate students, faculty and staff are able to check out video cassettes from the library for viewing. At the end of the semester, the library staff will reevaluate and improve the policy.
At a lecture in a packed Medical Center conference room last night, Ann Johnson, chair of the North Carolina Governor's Council on Aging, explained that advocacy "is used consciously and unconsciously all of the time without being defined or analyzed, but is viewed as an activity designed to support or oppose the interests of groups where change in a certain area is possible."
Most people know that drinking several drinks and then driving is dangerous, but few realize that a lack of sleep, especially when combined with only one serving of alcohol, can make driving just as unsafe.