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Dec. 29, 2006
Carolina in the News
Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina people and programs cited recently in the media:
International Coverage
B-schools offer training for executives
Times of India
Six months ago, the Garvin School of International Management at the Arizona-based Thunderbird University launched a new multi-million dollar MBA programme, meant for LG executives. ...For example, if an organisation places strategic emphasis on innovation, they might create an executive education initiative around innovation. Creating such a program ensures that executives have the skills they need to implement the new strategy," says James W Dean, associate dean (executive education), Kenan-Flagler.
National Coverage
Edwards says he has edge over potential rivals
The Associated Press (National)
Former Sen. John Edwards is charting a different course as he opens his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. He’s claiming an edge in experience over potential rivals who seem to have momentum. ...Edwards has spent the time since the 2004 election establishing a poverty center at the University of North Carolina, and he’s traveled widely to promote it.
Related links: http://www.latimes.com/news/la-na-edwards29dec29,1,5762474.story
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6692109Edwards takes another shot at run for White House
USA Today
Should he win the White House in 2008, John Edwards has a few modest goals: end poverty, provide health care for all, inspire Americans to help others and make his country once again "the great light for the rest of the world." ...Edwards also headed the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at the University of North Carolina.
Related links: http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/news/politics/16341410.htm
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aMh305zlNNwc&refer=homeExperts: Ethics charges could force Duke lacrosse DA off case
The Associated Press (National)
Ethics charges filed against the prosecutor at the center of the Duke lacrosse sexual assault case might constitute a conflict of interest that forces him off the case, legal experts said. "It's hard for me to imagine how he can be effective as an advocate, with either the court or a future jury, when he has ethics charges pending against him ... concerning his conduct of this very same case," said Joseph Kennedy, a University of North Carolina law professor.
Dare video site betting users will play along
The Los Angeles Times
Ben Bacal and Daron Niemerow definitely want you to try this at home. ..."Passing around viral videos is one way we communicate," said Fred Stutzman, a doctoral student at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill who studies social networks.Fewer Americans injured, killed on the job
McClatchy Newspapers
Fewer and fewer Americans are coming home from work in coffins. ...Fatalities among Hispanic men, for example, are up, especially in the South, whose workplaces are more dangerous than the rest of the nation's, according to Dana Loomis, an epidemiologist at the University of North Carolina's School of Public Health in Chapel Hill.
Cholesterol's Role in Parkinson's Remains Elusive
HealthDay News
People with low levels of "bad" low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol are more likely to have Parkinson's disease than people with high LDL levels, a new study says. ...Conducted by researchers at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, the study of 124 Parkinson's disease patients and 112 people without the disease found that people with lower LDL levels (less than 114 milligrams per deciliter) had a 3.5-fold higher occurrence of Parkinson's than people with higher LDL levels (more than 138 milligrams per deciliter).
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/dec06/parkinsonsldl121806.htm
Heart Disease, Stroke Still Big Killers
HealthDay News
Rising obesity and poor nutrition are keeping heart disease at the top of the list of America's fatal illnesses, according to the 2007 edition of the American Heart Association's annual statistical round-up. ..."Changes in lifestyle behaviors such as healthy diet and exercise could reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease," Wayne Rosamond, an epidemiologist at the University of North Carolina and chairman of the committee that drew up the report, said in a statement.
Regional Coverage
UF using title game as invention convention
The Palm Beach Post (Fla.)
America knows Gator Nation brawn. ...In the past decade, 26 football players on high school, college and pro teams have died from heat-related illnesses, according to the National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
Shopping hordes once more (Question-answer)
The Memphis Commercial Appeal (Tenn.)
It was Black Friday all over again. ...Britt Beemer, president of America's Research Group, a consumer behavior research firm, and James F. Smith, director of consumer forecasting at the Keenan-Flagler Business School at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, had these thoughts on where to find the best deals.
Snow a financial blow to DIA, airlines
The Rocky Mountain News (Colo.)
The sequel to last week's blizzard is creating more financial pain for Denver International Airport and its two largest tenants. ..."The financial impact is serious," said John Kasarda, a management professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's business school. "It's not just the headache of cancellations. It impacts the bottom line in a negative way."
Is convenient food making you sick?
The Pioneer Press (St. Paul, Minn.)
Smoking causes cancer. Alcohol causes hangovers. ...A 2001 study of neighborhoods in Minnesota, Maryland, Mississippi and North Carolina concluded that white neighborhoods have four times as many supermarkets as black neighborhoods. The study was completed by Kimberly Morland of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/nov02/wing110102.htmlAn insightful writer explores matters of the heart (Book Review)
The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio)
In no other part of the self is the tension between body and essence more tightly drawn than in the heart. ...(Albert) Carter, an adjunct professor of social medicine at the University of North Carolina medical school, is the author of a previous book on a humanist's encounter with human anatomy.
'Back' to gospel? She never left
The Houston Chronicle
The crowd filled the doors of the concert center and snaked out into the night. ..."Gospel puts secular concerns into a religious context," said (Jerma) Jackson, associate professor of history at UNC-Chapel Hill.
'Happyness' sets example of black male achievement
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
Will Smith's new movie, "The Pursuit of Happyness," is creating quite a buzz among African-American businessmen and professionals like Ben Engel. ..."He had good soft skills, he spoke well and he presented himself well. He had the ability to present himself as mainstream," says Walter C. Farrell Jr., a former professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee who is a professor of social work and associate director of the Urban Investment Strategies Center in the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
We love the '90s nostalgia
The Ithaca Journal (N.Y.)
“When I was your age...” How many excruciatingly boring stories start this way? ...Sure, that might sound a bit dramatic, but apparently there's a reason TV viewers get attached to their childhood favorites. “People come to like [television] characters and to see them as friends,” says Melanie Green, Ph.D., an assistant professor of psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
N.C. study takes aim at flow of pollutants into ocean
The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk)
Pipes along Outer Banks beaches flush storm water to the sea, carrying pollutants and a bit of a mystery. ...The two-year study will focus on eight outfalls from Baum Street in Kill Devil Hills to Old Oregon Inlet Road in Nags Head, all of which empty into the ocean, said Michael Piehler, a professor at UNC-Chapel Hill and a co-investigator on the project.
State and Local Coverage
Edwards says he's running, calls for action on poverty
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Former U.S. Sen. John Edwards began his second quest for president Thursday by calling on the country to address the problems of poverty and inequality in America. ...In 2005, Edwards created the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at UNC-Chapel Hill. He has compared his stance to that of the late Sen. Robert Kennedy, who ran for president in 1968.
Related link: http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/526235.htmlEdwards leaves Poverty Center
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Former Sen. John Edwards has left the UNC Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity he founded three years ago to make a second run for president. Edwards gave up the UNC job Thursday, the day he made official what he had long hinted and was revealed a day earlier when his campaign accidentally went live with his "John Edwards '08" Web site, that he will be a candidate for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.
Related link: http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/16344297.htmEdwards campaign make use of technology
WCHL-AM (Chapel Hill)
Political campaigns in the past used to rely on grassroots supporters, but now that the world is high tech, John Edwards is showing just how integrated a politician can be with the online community. Paul Jones, founder of ibiblio, points out that the whole Edwards family has been podcasting for more than a year.
Duke case's prosecutor must now defend himself
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The N.C. State Bar on Thursday accused Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong of violating ethics rules during numerous media interviews he gave shortly after a woman accused Duke lacrosse players of raping her at a team party in March. ...Joseph Kennedy, an associate professor at the UNC School of Law, said he thinks this only "heightens the conflict of interest I think already existed."
More died on motorcycles in N.C. in 2005
The Winston-Salem Journal
The number of motorcycle deaths in North Carolina increased 15 percent in 2005, according to the annual analysis of North Carolina crash data by the American Automobile Association of the Carolinas. Statewide, motorcycle deaths increased from 117 to 134 last year, according to preliminary crash data for 2005 provided by the University of North Carolina's Highway Safety Research Center.
Top 10 stories of 2006 - No. 3: Nine injured during attack at UNC's Pit
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
One minute, students were laughing and talking with friends in the Pit on the UNC campus. The next, it was chaos.
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