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Duke goes slowly on gene therapy � Nearly all of the Medical Center’s work in the controversial field remains in studies on animals, not humans. By MEREDITH YOUNG The Chronicle

After the death of a clinical research patient at the University of Pennsylvania, gene therapy has gained nationwide attention. At Duke, officials and researchers believe the Medical Center will continue to proceed with caution as the field develops slowly. Researchers said Duke’s medium-sized gene therapy program is concentrated in animal studies, and the Medical Center is moving with trepidation when it comes to human research. There is one active protocol for a gene therapy study, but no patients have been enrolled in that study, said Dr. Russel Kaufman, vice dean for education at the School of Medicine. “I think Duke has been pretty cautious compared to most places, as far as pushing the field of gene therapy into the clinic,” said Bruce Sullenger, associate professor of experimental surgery. Sullenger, whose research group is currently working to develop safer methods of gene therapy, said there is pressure for researchers to move on to testing human subjects. However, Duke researchers and national experts said gene therapy must be treated responsibly, both at Duke and beyond. Dr. Adil Shamoo, a bioethicist at the University of Maryland’s medical school, said gene therapy “is no more or less dangerous than other research. The scare about gene therapy is due to lack of knowledge.” Shamoo, who is editor-in-chief of the journal Accountability in Research and has chaired international conferences on ethics and research on human subjects, said that with gene therapy trials—like all See

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U.S. SECRETARY OF EDUCATION RICHARD RILEY recommended that teachers work year-round

Riley looks at state of education By ROBERT KELLEY The Chronicle

U.S. Secretary of Education Richard Riley chose to deliver a message of hope and equality yesterday at a public school in Durham, a city whose school system has long struggled to provide an adequate and equitable education for all its students. Southern High School hosted the seventh annual State of American Education Address, which attracted Gov. Jim Hunt, Duke President

Nan Keohane and scores of other politicians, education administrators and experts. Riley began his speech with exclamations of optimism. “The state of American education is changing

for the better,” he said. “Public education is beginning to become something new.” Pointing to rising test scores, increasing numbers of students going to college and a shrinking gender gap in math and science classes, Riley See

EDUCATION

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GENE THERAPY on page 14 �

Back from abroad, Bazinsky McCain topples Bush in mounts DSG presidential bid Michigan, Arizona races Jordan Bazinsky plans to focus on financial aid policy

By RON FOURNIER

Months later, after surviving this and several other adventures during Sitting in a taxicab in Mozambique his semester in Africa, Bazinsky is now ready to face a new early last semester, Trinity junior Jordan Bazinsky challenge, found himself facing ma“Stepping away from chine-gun toting policemen Duke and then coming back screaming at him in a forhighlights a lot of issues,” eign language and confiscathe said. “Duke’s a great ing his passport. place. But, just like any other, it has its share of The Duke Student Govproblems. I think I could do ernment presidential race was, needless to say, the fura good job helping to adthest thing from his mind. dress those issues.” _ Thinking quickly, BazinBazinsky is confident sky reached over and high- Jordan Bazinsky that being abroad first sefived one of the policemen, mester would not hurt his opening up lines of communication performance as DSG president. which allowed the group of American “I gained a lot more than I could students to pay the expected bribe and have lost while I was in Africa,” he See BAZINSKY on page 8 retrieve their passports.

DETROIT John McCain thumped George W. Bush in a two-state sweep Tuesday night, rallying a “new McCain majority” of independents and Democrats in Michigan and winning his home state ofArizona to seize momentum for a two-week blitz of Republican presidential primaries. Reaching out to GOP voters, the senator told supporters, “Don’t fear this campaign, my fellow Republicans. Join it.” He now leads Bush in the hunt for 1,034 delegates at the GOP nomination. Bush, humbled by defeat, said, ‘This is a marathon and I’m going to be in it all the way to the end—and some primaries you win and sometimes you don’t.” McCain’s is the latest victory in a see-sawing Republican nomination race. The Arizonan won New Hampshire’s leadoff primary in a landslide,

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lost the follow-up showdown in South Carolina and won Michigan with room to spare. It further damaged Bush’s aura as the inevitable GOP nominee, and propelled both men toward a March 7 showdown in 13 states. “This means we’re going to go charging into Super Tuesday,” said state Sen.

John Schwarz, McCain’s Michigan chair. Even before winning his doubleheader, McCain narrowed Bush’s financial advantage and closed the gap in national polls. In Michigan, Bush and McCain forged mirror-image coalitions: Bush was supported by two-thirds of the Republicans, arid McCain ventured outside the party for a similar-sized force of Democrats and independents. Bush drew a smaller percentage bedrock Republicans than in South Carolina. McCain’s mixed breed of votSee MCCAIN on page 9

GPSC seeks more seats in Cameron, page 6


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