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Dec. 13, 2006
Carolina in the News
Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina people and programs cited recently in the media:
Hardball Coverage
John Edwards: Iraq is ‘a mess’
MSNBC.com
Chris Matthews talks to former vice presidential nominee John Edwards at the Hardball College Tour at UNC at Chapel Hill. Edwards calls Iraq ‘a mess’ and says the U.S. should pull the troops out.
John Edwards gets most of the answers right when quizzed on world leaders
The Associated Press
Back on the campus where he earned a law degree, former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards did OK Tuesday when challenged with a pop quiz on world leaders. "This is ridiculous, but go ahead," Edwards said a live broadcast of MSNBC's "Hardball with Chris Matthews" from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Edwards praises, cautions Obama
The Charlotte Observer
Former U.S. Sen. John Edwards at first put on his best manners on national television Tuesday night. ..."He's an exciting, charismatic guy and he would add something to the race if he got in," Edwards, who has not yet announced his candidacy, said during MSNBC's "Hardball" broadcast from UNC Chapel Hill.
'Hardball' not so hard for Edwards
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Likely Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards passed the world leader pop quiz Tuesday night. ...In fact, Edwards seemed to have little trouble fielding questions, ranging from the war in Iraq to his relative lack of foreign policy experience to his political ties to organized labor, before a live UNC-Chapel Hill crowd and a national TV audience.
Edwards talks but doesn't announce
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
John Edwards played "Hardball with Chris Matthews" Tuesday night at UNC and fought off a slew of questions on the likelihood of a presidential bid and the war in Iraq.
Edwards, Matthews play Hardball
WCHL-AM (Chapel Hill)
Chapel Hill got a chance to peer behind the curtain last night to see the inner workings of the political talk show Hardball. Host Chris Matthews warmed up the crowd with a free lesson.
International Coverage
Scientists discover gene that causes familial pancreatic cancer
People's Daily Online
An international research group has discovered that the mutated form of a gene called Palladin causes familial pancreatic cancer. ...Previous studies led by Dr. Carol Otey, Associate Professor of physiology at the University of North Carolina, have revealed that when the Palladin gene is functioning properly, it gives a cell its shape and enables the cell to move.
Related link: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=204&objectid=10415008
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/dec06/pancreaticcancer120806.htmMillennium, J&J combination delays cancer progression
The Pharmaceutical Business Review (United Kingdom)
Velcade is an FDA approved treatment for relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma. ..."This pivotal clinical trial suggests that the combination of Doxil and Velcade may improve the prognosis for patients with resistant multiple myeloma," said lead study investigator Robert Orlowski, of the University of North Carolina.
National Coverage
Family Helps Pancreatic Cancer Study
The Associated Press (National)
A Washington state family that has lost nine members to pancreatic cancer is helping researchers better understand the disease. ...Other institutions that participated in the research were the University of Pittsburgh, Cleveland Clinic, University of North Carolina and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/dec06/pancreaticcancer120806.htmMany at High Risk Don't Get Flu Shot
HealthDay News
About half of American adults who are at high risk for flu and related complications don't know that they need to get a flu shot and therefore don't get one, according to a survey of 300 adults conducted in September 2004 and March 2005. ...This simple message could very well save lives," Dr. Noel T. Brewer, assistant professor of health behavior and health education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said in a prepared statement.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/nov06/flu112006.htmFacebook: A campus fad becomes a campus fact
The Christian Science Monitor
Bridget Henry didn't think her school, the University of Iowa, gave students an appropriate venue to participate in the search for a new president. ...Brian Payst, director of technology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, says schools need to use the changing ways in which students communicate. While Facebook orientation and policy documents are now common on campuses, some schools have gotten more creative.
Regional Coverage
Fight cancer naturally (Commentary)
The Kansas City Star
Fruits and veggies in rich greens, reds and golds — plus chill-chasing tea and red wine — may help prevent breast and ovarian cancers, recent studies suggest. A University of North Carolina study of 2,900 women found 45 percent lower breast cancer risk in postmenopausal women with the highest intake of flavonols, a type of flavonoid, compared with the lowest.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/oct04/gammon102704.htmlStudy says better pre-kindergarten needed
The Times-Dispatch (Richmond, Va.)
High-quality pre-kindergarten programs can close the gap for at-risk kids, says a University of Virginia researcher. He said his research, however, found few state programs of the caliber necessary to do the job. ...A report issued this week by the National Prekindergarten Center at the University of North Carolina said Virginia colleges awarded 324 early-childhood-education degrees in 2003, the last year for which data was available.
Double taxation (Editorial)
The Joplin Globe (Mo.)
Douglas Shackleford, the Meade H. Willis Distinguished Professor of Taxation and director of the University of North Carolina Tax Center, makes a point that government should eliminate double taxation. "There are a lot of options out there, but we've got to start with the understanding that public and privately traded firms should not be taxed differently," Shackleford told the Tax Foundation.
State and Local Coverage
UNC poet and visiting writer reflects on move south
"The State of Things," WUNC-FM
Poet David Roderick is currently the Kenan Visiting Writer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He joins Host Frank Stasio to read from his book, “Blue Colonial” and share what he learned about colonialism when he moved to the South.
UNC targets those in need
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
North Carolina forward Brandan Wright already had completed two final exams this week. But standing in the toy section of the Streets at Southpoint SuperTarget on Tuesday evening, brow furrowed in concentration, the freshman faced another daunting test: What sort of Christmas present do you buy a little girl when you can judge her age only by her shoe size?
Our local rivals continue to wage war (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill Herald
If you think that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is intractable, well, you haven't been to a Duke-Carolina basketball game recently. Or watched one on TV. Or listened to talk about it around the watercooler.
Related link: http://www.chapelhillnews.com/107/story/4182.htmlAskBio lands $2.5M grant for muscular dystrophy therapy
The Triangle Business Journal
The Muscular Dystrophy Association has granted $2.5 million to a Chapel Hill biopharmaceutical firm to pay for continued trials of a gene therapy targeting Duchenne muscular dystrophy. ...AskBio is a private development-stage biotechnology company that was spun out from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It currently has about five full-time employers.
Airing of documentary hoped to be catalyst for fundraising
The Outer Banks Sentinel
Students from UNC-Chapel Hill use the Outer Banks as their classroom when taking courses in the Environmental Coastal Studies program. The Albemarle Ecological Field Site (AEFS), of Manteo is a multidisciplinary ecological field site founded in 2001 by William Stott, a research professor at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Great-tasting, flaky biscuits the mark of bad-for-you fat (Commentary)
The Charlotte Observer
Who says biscuits have to be flaky? Rose Tyndall did. She was my college instructor 27 years ago. I was on the path to becoming a dietitian, and Tyndall taught me how to bake -- and how to evaluate -- the perfect biscuit. ...Suzanne Havala Hobbs is a registered dietitian and a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Health Policy at UNC.
Profs, coaches: Pay gap rooted in performance (Letter to the editor)
The Charlotte Observer
In response to "To teach or to win?" (Nov. 30 For the record):Bill Friday needs to take some courses at the UNC School of Business. He would learn the difference between a tenured job and a job based on performance. That would explain the pay gap between professors and coaches.
Just for the big dogs (Letter to the editor)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Regarding Jim Jenkins' Nov. 30 Editorial page column: The out-of-state scholarship legislation as implemented by the University of North Carolina does not help the Historically Black Universities or smaller schools in the UNC system.
Issues and Trends
In Tuition Game, Popularity Rises With Price
The New York Times
John Strassburger, the president of Ursinus College, a small liberal arts institution here in the eastern Pennsylvania countryside, vividly remembers the day that the chairman of the board of trustees told him the college was losing applicants because of its tuition.
Taheri-Azar hearing uneventful
The Chapel Hill Herald
There were reports that he would plead guilty and rumors he would plead not guilty, but in the end, nothing much happened during a short hearing Tuesday afternoon involving Mohammed Taheri-Azar. Taheri-Azar is charged with nine counts of attempted first-degree murder and nine counts of felony assault for driving a rented Jeep Grand Cherokee through the Pit on the UNC campus and allegedly attempting to hit and kill people there on March 3.
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