February 26, 2003

Carolina in the News

Current National Coverage

Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina 
people and programs cited recently in the media:

What's old is new again: expeditionary forces
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The flow of forces from the United States to the Middle East looks like the 
wave of America's military future - expeditionary warfare. ... "Torch was an 
enormous undertaking," says the University of North Carolina's Richard H. 
Kohn, once the head of the Office of Air Force History. But undertakings 
of that scale may be among the costs of winning the Cold War. ...
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/News/4E955283BF35F00986256CD900161C5E?OpenDocument&Headline=What's+old+is+new+again%3A+
expeditionary+forces

Black teens significantly more likely to attend church than whites
The Kansas City Star
No matter how late Nick Johnson stays out on Saturday night, the Rockhurst 
High School senior drags himself out of bed the next morning and heads to 
church. ... The Child Trends study, done by researchers at the University of 
North Carolina-Chapel Hill, analyzed responses from 3,000 teens of many 
different faiths and from many socio-economic groups, including Hispanic, 
but used only "white, black, other" for results. ...
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascitystar/5262709.htm

Bristol wants regulators to OK schizophrenia drug for long-term 
Newark Star Ledger (NJ)
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. said yesterday 
they have asked federal regulators to approve Abilify for long-term treatment 
of schizophrenia. ... "The efficacy, safety and tolerability of Abilify have 
been demonstrated in short-term clinical trials," said Jeffrey Lieberman, vice 
chairman of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. ...
http://www.nj.com/business/ledger/index.ssf?/base/business-3/1046244625219870.xml

Intel gets inside life sciences 
CNET News.com
The Santa Clara, Calif., chipmaker, which began an effort to boost its 
presence in life sciences in November, said on Tuesday that 15 universities 
and other research institutes in Australia, India, China and Singapore--all 
focused on areas such as medicine and genetics--are using or will soon put
into place new computers based on Intel chips. ... On Tuesday, Intel rival 
Sun Microsystems headed to North Carolina to launch a research center 
dealing in bioinformatics and computational biology. The center is designed 
to foster collaboration among Duke University, North Carolina State 
University, the University of North Carolina and other schools in areas 
such as genomics--and to get them to use Sun hardware along the way. ...
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-985911.html

Regional Coverage

Varat: Cigarette taxes can't fix Medicaid (Opinion-Editorial Column)
Carolina Morning News (Bluffton, S.C)
According to recent polls, a majority of South Carolinians favor raising the 
cigarette tax to fund Medicaid. ... And a 2002 study at the University of 
North Carolina School of Public Health identified 195 Internet cigarette 
vendors, up from 88 the previous year, and roughly half of those sat on Indian 
reservations
http://www.lowcountrynow.com/stories/022603/LOCvaratvoices.shtml

State ranks 10th in care of highways (Commentary)
The Birmingham News
University of North Carolina professor David T. Hartgen has released his 
latest rating of state highway departments, and where are the drum roll and 
the trumpets? Alabama ranks No. 10, yes, that's out of 50 states, in the
state's ability to maintain its highways. ...
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/news/104625496497320.xml

State and Local Coverage

Roses & (no) raspberries
Chapel Hill News
... Roses to UNC Chancellor James Moeser for hammering a few nails last week. 
Moeser led a team of volunteers who worked Friday on a Habitat for Humanity 
house at Habitat’s Richmond Hills project near Efland. ... Roses to the nearly 700 
students at UNC who danced all night — and day — to raise money for children 
at the N.C. Children’s Hospital. ...
http://www.triangle.com/triangle.com/communities/chapelhill/opinion/story/2248050p-2118945c.html

Sun joins Triangle universities, businesses in Center of Excellence
Triangle Business Journal
Sun Microsystems Inc. is making its computer technology available to area 
universities in order to promote bioinformatics and computational biology. ... 
The North Carolina COE is a partnership that was developed through the 
North Carolina Genomics and Bioinformatics Consortium. It is based on 
collaboration among the North Carolina Supercomputing Center, Incellico 
Inc., SAS, Sun, Duke University, North Carolina State University and the 
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 
http://triangle.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2003/02/24/daily18.html

N.Y. Times writer supports war against Saddam 
The Herald-Sun
Morally and strategically, invading Iraq to overthrow Saddam Hussein is "the 
right thing to do," but it’s still a gamble that could turn out badly for the United 
States, a well-known commentator on the Middle East says. By ousting 
Saddam, the United States could bring a greater measure of economic and 
political freedom to one of the most important countries in the Middle East, 
said Thomas Friedman, a columnist for The New York Times. The downside 
of intervention is that it could unleash fierce ethnic and religious quarrels that 
the current regime has suppressed, the three-time Pulitzer Prize winner told 
an audience at UNC on Tuesday. ...
http://www.herald-sun.com/orange/10-324850.html

Translators help deal with rest of world (Question and Answer)
News and Observer
Q. I often, in my business, have to surf European Web sites that are in German, 
Swedish, Finnish or French but don't offer English alternatives ... A. As you've 
discovered, a whole world of useful information exists on the Web that may not 
be in a language you can read proficiently -- or at all. ... Experts say there's a 
big caveat to Babel Fish and translation software: They make mistakes. "Of 
their many problems, these products are largely incapable of recognizing 
semantic subtleties inthe original language, which means the [translation] can 
convey drastically different messages than actually intended in the original text," 
says Richard Langston, assistant professor in Germanic languages at the 
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. ... 
http://newsobserver.com/business/story/2249708p-2119925c.html

Leaping the language barrier
Chapel Hill News
They fear that they will not have enough money to pay a sick child's medical bills, 
that an extended hospital stay might cost them a job or that authorities might 
uncover their illegal alien status. ... And reassuring those worried patients is why 
Deborah Bender started Access to Quality Health Care for Immigrant 
Populations, a class that examines issues related to the availability of quality health 
care to immigrant populations. The class, which is taught in UNC's School of 
Public Health, requires students to meet weekly with Latino families or patients 
at UNC Hospitals. ... 
http://www.triangle.com/triangle.com/communities/chapelhill/our_town/story/2246836p-2117563c.html

Rocking Around the Clock (Editorial)
Daily Tar Heel 
Hundreds of students devoted 24 hours last weekend to raise money for the N.C. 
Children's Hospital and should be praised for their continued dedication to the 
cause. For the past five years, UNC students have set aside one day out of the 
year to boogie-woogie for a good cause. ...
http://www.dailytarheel.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/02/26/3e5cbdc2e3862

Clarification
Chapel Hill News
... In our Feb. 19 editorial about graduation rates of football players at UNC, we 
criticized university officials for saying last year that rates would improve, when 
they did not. Actually, the reported graduation rate, 47.6 percent, did not change 
from last year to this. ...
http://www.triangle.com/triangle.com/communities/chapelhill/opinion/story/2248119p-2118996c.html
(Note: To view this correction, go to the above url and scroll down the web page.)

UNC goes flushless with new urinals 
The Herald-Sun
Well, this should dispel all those myths about campus water conservation being 
all glitz and glamour. UNC has purchased 300 cutting-edge urinals that operate 
without water. ...
http://www.herald-sun.com/orange/10-324797.html

Issues and Trends Affecting Carolina

Easley's figures refigured 
News and Observer
Democratic Gov. Mike Easley might have been a tad too exuberant Monday in 
pronouncing the wisdom of his plan to limit state spending growth. ...
http://newsobserver.com/dome/story/2249710p-2119938c.html

Election finance idea raises questions
Chapel Hill News
Chapel Hill officials plan to study proposed new campaign rules that would 
allow for public financing for local races, but it’s unclear whether the move is 
legal or would could be executed in time for this fall’s municipal elections. ... 
UNC law professor Daniel Pollitt joined Markatos at the podium and 
reminded council members that efforts to reform campaigns reach as far 
back as Theodore Roosevelt. ...
http://www.triangle.com/triangle.com/communities/chapelhill/story/2248132p-2119070c.html

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