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Duke Lacrosse Accuser May Face Murder Charges

The woman who falsely accused members of the Duke University lacrosse team of raping her may face murder charges in the stabbing death of her boyfriend, police say. Police in Durham, N.C., say Crystal Mangum, whose sensational allegations against three Duke lacrosse players inflamed racial tensions across the country in...

Squid May Help Make Soldiers Invisible

For decades, military scientists have tried to figure out the best way to make things disappear, or at least hide them very well. Members of the U.S. Army's First Earth Battalion hoped to bend physics and render themselves invisible, when they weren't trying to kill goats by staring at them. The British Ministry of...

Karen Owen's Duke Sex Thesis and PowerPoint as a Word Cloud

(Oct. 8) -- Karen Owen, a former Duke University student, has quickly made a name for herself as both a pioneering figure of female sexual empowerment and the latest social-media pariah, all thanks to a mock 40-plus-page "thesis" she drafted for two close friends in which she "scientifically" documented the sexual prowess...

Is 'Sex Thesis' Author Karen Owen a Feminist Hero?

(Oct. 8) -- Boys do it all the time. That is about the only agreed-upon conclusion when discussing the subject of Karen Owen, the Duke University graduate whose phony senior thesis evaluated her sexual exploits with Duke athletes. The 22-year-old's "horizontal thesis," as she called it, has gone viral, sparking a debate...

US News' Top 10 Universities of 2011, Remixed By Cost

(Aug. 17) -- Although administrators won't literally charge an arm and a leg (thankfully), tuition at one of the nation's top universities is going to cost you. Among the top 10 schools listed in the highly anticipated U.S. News and World Report annual university rankings, released today, not a single institution costs...

Background on duke university

Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James B.

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