Way back in 1980, two graduate students from Duke University brought us Usenet, essentially the first online forum for information exchange.

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This view is echoed by Robert Jackson, professor of environmental sciences at Duke University in the US, who has published research on ground water contamination through hydraulic fracturing.

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But someone at Duke told us about a collector near the university.

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Dr Mark Stacy, director of movement disorders, at Duke University School of Medicine, North Carolina, US, said Parkinsonpoly would be particularly useful in alerting patients to changes that could be needed in their medication.

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