January 14, 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 national media:

Pages (Book Review)
The Washington Post
Despite all evidence to the contrary, your children are not lazy; they are more 
likely victims of a poorly understood brain-based malady that Mel Levine calls 
"output failure." Levine, a pediatrics professor at the University of North 
Carolina Medical School, is a highly regarded expert on learning differences 
in children and author of the bestselling book "A Mind at a Time." ... 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52252-2003Jan13.html

As Cases of Induced Labor Rise, So Do Experts' Concerns
The New York Times
A number of obstetrical experts are becoming increasingly concerned about 
the growing number of pregnant women whose labors are induced for no 
apparent medical reason. ... Induced labor greatly increases the costs and health
risks of childbirth because time spent in labor in the hospital is longer, and the 
need for Caesarean deliveries is greater, Dr. Karen E. Kaufman, an expert in 
maternal and fetal medicine at Northwestern University Medical School, and 
her co-authors at Northwestern and the University of North Carolina reported
in an analysis in October in The American Journal of Obstetrics and 
Gynecology. ... 
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/14/health/womenshealth/14INDU.html
(Note: The New York Times requires free registration to access articles.)

State and Local Coverage

UNC opens six-bed stroke center 
News and Observer
A new emphasis on the prevention and treatment of stroke was celebrated
Monday at UNC Hospitals during the inauguration of a special center 
dedicated to the disease, which is a leading killer in North Carolina. ...
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/triangle/story/2095196p-1999128c.html
(Note: Other coverage includes WTVD-TV (ABC, Raleigh), 
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/health/011303_NH_strokecenter.html, 
Other media covering Monday's event include WRAL-TV (CBS, 
Raleigh), WNCN-TV (NBC, Raleigh), WLFL-TV (Warner Brothers, 
Raleigh), News 14 Carolina (Time-Warner, Raleigh), WUNC-FM and 
The Daily Tar Heel . )

UNC gender gap in faculty salaries sparks individual concerns
Chapel Hill Herald 
Since its release in early November, a campus report on salary inequities 
between male and female faculty has inspired quite a bit of debate at UNC. ...
http://www.herald-sun.com/archives/URNDetail.cfm?URN=0409487927
(Note: The Chapel Hill Herald requires free registration to access archives.)

Health costs tax parents 
News and Observer
When health care is too expensive for the family budget, parents put off 
treatment for their children, juggle bills against medicine, feed their youngsters 
leftover antibiotics and take other dangerous risks, researchers with the Cecil 
G. Sheps Center reported Monday as part of a national examination of 
Medicaid funding problems ... "I think what was most compelling was that 
parents worked incredibly hard to make sure the children got what they 
needed," said Rebecca Slifkin, one of the study's authors and director of 
health-care economics and finance with the Sheps Center, a research and
consulting center at UNC-Chapel Hill. ...
http://newsobserver.com/news/story/2095061p-1999184c.html
(Note: A related story mentioning the Sheps Center was also featured in 
The Bradenton (Fla.) Herald and The Knoxville News-Sentinel.)

Canceled jazz gig at UNC set to go 
The Herald-Sun
Chucho Valdes, whose jazz piano concert at UNC was canceled last fall 
because of visa difficulties under new federal security guidelines, will perform 
on campus after all. ...
http://www.herald-sun.com/orange/10-308997.html

UNC speaker series begins 
The Herald-Sun
The Kenan-Flagler Business School’s spring speaker series will feature 
corporate executives and a Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign affairs columnist from 
The New York Times. ...
http://www.herald-sun.com/orange/10-308996.html
(Note: A UNC news release about the series is at 
http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/jan03/deanspeak010603.html)

Traffic cameras on Asheville City Council's retreat agenda
Asheville Citizen-Times
Asheville Police Chief Will Annarino is expected to once again ask government
leaders to support putting cameras on city stoplights to help ticket drivers who 
run red lights. ... Officials at the University of North Carolina Highway Safety 
Research Center say drivers running red lights kill more than 800 people and 
injure more than 200,000 each year in the United States. ..
http://cgi.citizen-times.com/cgi-bin/story/news/26725

'One strike and you're gone' 
News and Observer 
College officials in North Carolina are under pressure to begin using a complicated, 
national computer system for tracking foreign students, knowing that students could 
face harsh penalties for mistakes. ... "It could be one strike and you're gone," said 
Jean Hughes, associate director of UNC-Chapel Hill's International Center, 
where advisers now read the Federal Register every morning with their coffee. ...
http://newsobserver.com/news/story/2087599p-1994563c.html

Murder statute faces challenge 
News and Observer
George Brown watched in shock last year as a young woman was sentenced 
to life in prison for a malicious trick that turned deadly ... "Normally when one
thinks of a murderer, one thinks of someone who intentionally takes a life," said 
Louis Bilionis, a law professor at the University of North Carolina at 
Chapel Hill. ...
http://newsobserver.com/news/story/2092786p-1997722c.html

Issues and Trends Affecting Carolina

Report Urges More Aggressive Recruiting of International Students to U.S. Colleges
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Colleges in the United States, along with the federal government, must work 
harder to recruit international students because of greater competition from 
other countries for top applicants and the political effects of September 11, 
NAFSA: Association of International Educators says in a report to be released 
today. ..
http://chronicle.com/daily/2003/01/2003011401n.htm
(Note: The Chronicle of Higher Education requires a subscription to 
access articles.)

. . .tuition's burden (Editorial)
News and Observer
Members of the incoming General Assembly will be looking anywhere and 
everywhere for revenue to close a budget gap that may reach $2 billion --
particularly since many members have vowed not to vote for anything that could 
be considered a tax increase. Let's hope that short-sighted view doesn't lead 
lawmakers to boost tuition for students in the University of North Carolina 
system. ..
http://newsobserver.com/editorials/story/2094994p-1999149c.html

TTA gets green light 
News and Observer
Nearly a decade after the notion was proposed, the Triangle Transit Authority 
has won federal approval for a 35-mile, $724 million commuter rail line linking 
Raleigh, Research Triangle Park and Durham ... 
http://newsobserver.com/news/story/2087596p-1994641c.html

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