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Cross country runs aground The men's and women's cross country teams finished lower than they would have hoped at the NCAA tournament yesterday. See page 12
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Blue Devils squeak by Penn State Duke launches No. 3 Duke genomics center edges No. 9 By DAVE INGRAM
Nittany Lions by 1 point
The Chronicle
By BRODY GREENWALD The Chronicle
88 UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Late Penn St. 87 in the first half, the 9,001 Nittany Lions fans in attendance sensed an upset was in the making, but Duke’s Crystal ball said otherwise. Crystal White, who made scant contributions in Duke’s first three victories, jump-started the Blue Devils from the defensive end late in the first half.
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Meanwhile, fellow freshmen Alana Beard and Iciss Tillis each
poured in career-highs as No. 3 Duke withheld a few attempts at late-game heroics by No. 9 Penn State last night in an 88-87 thriller at Bryce Jordan Center. “I just thought it was an excellent basketball game; both teams played with a lot of heart,” Duke coach Gail Goestenkors said. “You had a feeling it was going to come down to the last second. We are very excited to come away with a win.” See PENN STATE on page 14 >
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FRESHMAN GUARD ALANA BEARD scored 21 points in 25 minutes to lead the Blue Devils to a razor-thin margin of victory.
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The University entered a new era in the field of genetic research Monday with the formal launch of its Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy. During a daylong program that culminated with a panel discussion moderated by President Nan Keohane, officials from a diversity of backgrounds inaugurated the $2OO million institute, which promises to catapult Duke to a prominent role in genome research and public policy. The discussion was immediately preceded by a keynote address from panelist Dr. Richard Klausner, director of the National Cancer Institute and Medical School 77, who discussed the importance of genetic research but also explained some of the complexities involved in the relatively new field. “The practical applications of genomics permeate all aspects of our culture and how we express ourselves,” he told a crowd of about 300 gathered in Reynolds Theater. “The single most important and dramatic discussion in biology in the next century will play itself out at this type of institution.” Describing some of the specifics of cancer research, Klausner exalted the ability of genetic information to determine cancer risks. Cancer is caused by a “genetic instability,” he explained, that results in diseased cells after a series of six to 10 stages. Using a person’s genetic information, he continued, doctors are able to better determine a patient’s susceptibility to certain cancers. While he praised the value of such technology, Klausner warned about some ofits pitfalls, including the public’s ironic tendency to put too much value on genes.“Genetics in virtually all cases is about shifting our understanding of risk, not about determining absolute fates,” he said. “Genomic information is just one filter of probability.” See GENOMICS on page 7
ELECTION 2000 �
Florida Supreme Court hears hand count arguments By R.W. APPLE
groping toward a timetable of their own devising that would allow the disputed WASHINGTON The resolution of manual recounting of votes to proceed a momentous political question—who but still permit the legal underbrush to will be the next president of the United be cleared away in time for Florida to States—passed Monday, at least for participate fully in national political denow, into the hands of the justices of the cision-making. Florida Supreme Court, seven men and And they seemed to be raising the women little known in their state let possibility that their decision would not alone the nation as a whole. be a straight yes-or-no verdict on Their verdict, even if it is challenged whether to count contested votes. in other courts of law, will powerfully inFor all the learned discussions of fluence whatever ensues in the struggle chad, certifications and the like, several for Florida’s pivotal 25 electoral votes. of the judges, especially Chief Justice What their verdict will be, or when it will Charles Wells, seemed to be focusing come, remains unclear, but it was evident most intently on the possibility that the from their questions what worried them. legal wrangling would still be taking The Florida justices are appointed place on Dec. 12. Federal law specifies but subsequently face retention elec- that by that date, six days before electors tions, and they know a little about the meet to vote, a “final determination of practicalities of politics. So they seemed any controversy or contest” under state to be searching for some way to reconcile law must be completed if the choice of competing imperatives; how to ensure electors is to be deemed conclusive. Whether the specter of 1876 loomed in that the vote of every Floridian would be counted, to the degree possible, without theirminds, no one could say. In that year, taking so long that the final result no conclusive right to the electoral votes NEWSMAKERS would come too late to be reflected in of four states was ever established at the the Electoral College. state level, and ultimately Congress, act- FLORIDA SUPREME COURT CHIEF JUSTICE CHARLES WELLS and the court heard arguments from See ELECTION on page 6 � Republican and Democratic lawyers yesterday. They are expected to rule in the next few days. They seemed, in other words, to be N.Y. Times News Service
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