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August 8, 2003
Current National Coverage
Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina
people and programs cited recently in the media:Study: Football deaths lowered
National Associated Press
Fifteen football players died in the United States last year -- down from 23 in 2001
-- and none of the deaths were from heatstroke, according to an annual study. Five
died in 2002 after on-field head injuries, according to the study released today by
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
(Note: This study was the subject of a UNC news release. This AP
story has also appeared in the following publications known to date: The Miami
Herald, Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Texas), The Buffalo News (N.Y.), Oakland
Tribune (Calif.) and The Charleston Post Courier (S.C.).)Other coverage includes the following staff-written stories:
Football players feel the heat as leagues ignore safeguards (Editorial)
USA Today
Coaches beating the heat (Commentary)
The Dallas Morning News (Texas)
Area teams are cooling off when heat is on
Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Texas)
UNC study finds no football deaths to heatstroke in '02
The Herald-Sun
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The UNC Highway Safety Research Center's distracted driver study continues to receive
international and national coverage. A sampling includes:Mobiles nearly off the hook
Australian Financial Review
Forget cell phones, ban kids from cars (Commentary)
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Wis.)
Drivers turn attention to plenty besides road
St. Petersburg Times (Fla.)
Local drivers admit distractions
The Tallahassee Democrat (Fla.)
Yesterday's National Associated Press story has also appeared in the following
publications:The Calgary Herald (Canada), The Ottawa Citizen (Canada), The
Times Union (Albany N.Y.), The Tallahassee Democrat (Fla.), The Charleston
Gazette (S.C.), The Star-Ledger (N.J.), The Grand Rapids Press (Mich.),
Deseret News (Utah) and The Jackson Clarion Ledger (Miss.)***
Playing it safe
MSNBC
Injuries from sports and exercise are surprisingly common, more so than injuries
from traffic accidents, according to a new nationwide survey. ... “We play sports
harder than we have ever played sports before and we play it at a younger age, so
the intensity is really ramping up,” says Steve Marshall, an assistant professor of
epidemiology and orthopedics at the Injury Prevention Research Center at
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Florida grapefruit growers face rough patch
The News-Press (Fla.)
About half of the world’s grapefruit grows on a mineral-rich strip of land along
Florida’s eastern seaboard. But 79-year-old Nathan Valleck won’t touch Citrus
paradisi. ... While it’s true that grapefruit interacts with some medications, serious
interactions are rare. “This isn’t a major public-health concern,” says Paul Watkins,
a professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina who has studied
grapefruit-drug interactions.
Program Trains Teachers To Use Students' Strengths
The Forward (New York)
Rebecca Coen, an English teacher at Yavneh Hebrew Academy in Los Angeles,
was going through her lesson one day when a hand went up. ... Schools Attuned
came out of the All Kinds of Minds Institute, an institute co-founded by Dr. Mel
Levine, a North Carolina pediatrician who has been developing theories about
children and the way they think for the past 25 years. ... and professor of
pediatrics at the University of North Carolina Medical School in Chapel Hill,
N.C.
State and Local Coverage
An opening for better mental health care (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The News and Observer
The recently released report from the President's New Freedom Mental Health
Commission describes a mental health system in crisis, fragmented, underfunded
and minimally effective.
(Note: Anna Scheyett is a clinical assistant professor at UNC-Chapel Hill's
School of Social Work)Poverty, not a book, threatens North Carolina (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The Charlotte Observer
When I was in Scandinavia last spring promoting "Nickel and Dimed," interviewers
kept asking me to tell them about the "debate" my book had provoked in the United
States. ...
(Note: This column by Barbara Ehrenreich, author of "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not)
Getting By in America," originally appeared in The Progressive.)AIDS Comeback (Editorial)
Winston-Salem Journal
The United States has made just enough progress battling the scourge of AIDS to be
at a dangerous crossroads. ... Closer to home, researchers in [the University of]
North Carolina have detected a recent outbreak of HIV among male college students,
most of them black.
Planning talks stuck in low gear (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill Herald
Round 2 of the talks between UNC and the town about a proposed revision to the
campus development plan continued the trend that emerged when the talks opened
earlier this month: Neither side gained ground.
University plans endanger quality of life (Letter to the Editor)
The Chapel Hill Herald
Recently, when I came home from a summer trip, I was met with shocking news. I
was told that the university was proposing a plan to build a 600-car parking deck in
the center of one of the most congested traffic areas of town — and one of its most
historically sensitive areas as well.
(Note: Georgia Kyser is co-founder of the Preservation Society of Chapel Hill.)Beyond the lines
The Chapel Hill News
Meg Elliot had her lines down cold. ... She stood in one of the studio rooms inside
the UNC Center for Dramatic Art, facing Judy Chen, one of the instructors at
PlayMakers Repertory Company’s inaugural Acting Intensive workshop. Elliot
was one of eight local high school students who spent the last three weeks of July
immersed in the pre-professional actors training program under the tutelage of the
PlayMakers instructors.
Shaded Moments (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The News and Observer
Talbert mows his grass, shirtless. The Eastern North Carolina heat hammers his sun
-coppered shoulders as if concentrated by a magnifying glass.
(Note: Scott Ragland is director of internal communications at UNC-Chapel Hill
and editor of the University Gazette.)Joy, regrets follow Episcopalians' stance
The News and Observer
After hearing the news that the Episcopal Church had elected its first openly gay
bishop Tuesday night, Jon Finson slipped the "Ode to Joy" from Beethoven's Ninth
Symphony into his CD player and turned up the volume. ... "This is the first time a
mainline church has broken the glass ceiling," said Finson, a professor of
musicology at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Europeans take prevention route (Commentary)
The News and Observer
Where food policy is concerned, they do it differently across the pond. Europeans
are more proactive in their regulation of the food industry.
(Note: Suzanne Havala Hobbs is an adjunct professor in the School of Public
Health.)Issues and Trends Affecting Carolina
With Cell Use Soaring, Schools Change Student Phone Offers
The Wall Street Journal
For decades, colleges and universities contracted with long-distance providers to
offer phone service in dorm rooms and then marked up the cost.
(Note: The Wall Street Journal requires an online subscription to access articles.)Biotech centers backed
The News and Observer
North Carolina on Thursday took a historic and expensive step away from its
tobacco-producing past, launching a $64.5 million initiative to train workers for one
of the nation's hottest industries: biotechnology. The Golden LEAF Foundation,
established to help ailing tobacco-dependent communities, agreed to award its
largest grant ever to N.C. State and N.C. Central universities as well as the state's
community colleges.
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