January 22, 2003

Carolina in the News

Diet study garners broad coverage

'Supersizing' Hits the Dinner Table 
The Washington Post
In addition to the super-size fries and big-gulp drinks served in countless 
restaurants, Americans are eating bigger and bigger portions at home as well, 
according to the first study to examine the issue. ... "Portion sizes have
increased over time, and it's not just outside the home," said Samara Joy 
Nielsen, who conducted the study with Barry M. Popkin of the 
University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. ...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24477-2003Jan21.html

Other outlets include Agence France-Presse (French wire service) and Scripps 
Howard News Service. The ABC and NBC television networks both conducted 
phone interviews with Nielsen this morning, and Channel One, the educational 
TV network that broadcasts into high schools nationwide, plans an interview 
with her this afternoon via satellite. Besides CNN (see link below), other 
broadcasters covering the story include CNN Radio Network, CBS Radio 
Network, and various NBC-TV stations in Chicago, Charlotte and New York City.

Additional coverage includes the National Associated Press as well as AP
reports or staff-written stories in nine of the top 10 U.S. newspapers (The 
Chicago Sun-Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Houston Chronicle, The Los 
Angeles Times, Newsday (Long Island, NY), The New York Times, USA 
Today and The Wall Street Journal. Others picking up the storyinclude include 
The Washington Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Orange County Register 
(CA), The Newark Star Ledger (NJ), The Salt Lake Tribune, The Fort Worth 
Star Telegram, The Grand Forks Herald (ND), The Bradenton Herald (FL), 
The Myrtle Beach Sun News, The Sun Herald (Biloxi, MS), The Knoxville 
News Sentinel, The Boston Globe, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Detroit 
News and The Charlotte Observer. 

Additional links available today include:

Too Much on Your Plate? U.S. Food Portions Balloon 
Reuters (international wire service)
http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews&storyID=2084097

Study: Food portions too big
United Press International
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030121-014506-2590r

Food portion sizes growing with our waistlines
CTV, Canada
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1043184903876_38594103/?hub=CTVNewsAt11

Study: Americans super-sizing at home, too
CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/diet.fitness/01/21/portion.sizes/index.html

Study Says Portions, Like Our Waistlines, Have Been Growing
The Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-food22jan22.story

Studies weigh in on supersizing of America 
USA Today 
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2003-01-21-food-portions_x.htm

Large food portions help drive U.S. obesity, study says
Minneapolis Star Tribune
http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/3606046.html

Living large, Americans are eating bigger portions, study says
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
http://www.jsonline.com/Alive/nutrition/jan03/112484.asp

Super-sizing it is becoming a big, fat problem 
Cleveland Plain Dealer
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1043231586134231.xml

Local coverage includes:

Study Suggests Portion Sizes Getting Out Of Control
WRAL-TV (CBS, Raleigh)
http://www.wral.com/health/1926047/detail.html

U.S. super-sizes appetite 
News and Observer
http://newsobserver.com/news/story/2121640p-2019371c.html

UNC study: Food portion sizes gain weight 
The Herald-Sun
http://www.herald-sun.com/orange/10-311959.html

To view a UNC news release on the study, go to 
http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/jan03/popkin011603.html

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Current International and National Coverage

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

An early answer 
Syracuse Post-Standard
Latisha Chisholm wanted her college plans in place as soon as possible ... Yale 
University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill also decided this 
year to end early decision, but like Stanford, they'll shift to an early action 
admission policy. ...
http://www.syracuse.com/news/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/news-1/104314190430180.xml

Good times can be bad for health 
The Straits Times (Singapore)
No, the Federal Reserve chairman is not intentionally trying to get us. But 
according to economist Christopher Ruhm of the University of North 
Carolina, short-term improvements in the economy can be good for our 
pocketbooks and yet bad for our health. ...
http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/money/story/0,4386,167604,00.html

Broadcast ownership should not change limits (Opinion-Editorial Column)
USA Today 
When a backhoe broke a gas line at a busy intersection in Chapel Hill, N.C., 
flames shot into the sky, electric power was shut down to avoid sparks, and 
citizens tuned to local radio station WCHL to find out what was happening. ...
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2003-01-21-meyer_x.htm
(Note: Philip Meyer holds the Knight Chair in Journalism at the University 
of North Carolina.)

Hispanics now No. 1 minority in U.S. 
The Washington Times
Hispanics have surpassed blacks and are officially the nation's largest minority 
group, the Census Bureau reported yesterday. ... "This will vastly transform 
our political and social landscape," said James H. Johnson Jr., a business 
demographer at the University of North Carolina.  ... 
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20030122-13910089.htm

Eureka Moments
Boston Globe
... True navigation - the ability to know where you are without any normal
sensory information from your surroundings - has only been found in vertebrates. 
Now Larry C. Boles and Kenneth J. Lohmann of the University of North 
Carolina at Chapel Hill have shown that the spiny lobster is up to the task. ...
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/021/science/Birdbrains+.shtml
(Note: To view this science brief, go to the above url and scroll down the page.)

State and Local Coverage

UNC takes bold stand on affirmative action (Editorial)
Chapel Hill News 
The timing may not have been deliberate, but the Bush administration could not 
have devised a more calculated offense against civil rights in this country than it 
did in launching a broadside against affirmative action the week before the 
Martin Luther King birthday commemoration. ... 
http://www.triangle.com/triangle.com/communities/chapelhill/opinion/story/2120037p-2018109c.html

UNC backs affirmative action in Mich. case
Chapel Hill News
The university plans to weigh in on an upcoming Supreme Court case on the 
use of race in college admissions, Chancellor James Moeser announced this
week. ... 
http://www.triangle.com/triangle.com/communities/chapelhill/story/2120167p-2018257c.html

UNC speaker: King ‘would shed a tear’ 
The Herald-Sun
With children in poverty and affirmative action still a subject of debate, life in 
America is clearly not yet rosy, scholar Cornel West told a rapt UNC audience 
Tuesday night. ...
http://www.herald-sun.com/orange/10-311968.html

MLK services sound call for future leaders
Chapel Hill News
"The Struggle Continues" -- that was the message that adorned the banner 
carried by leaders of Monday’s march honoring the life and work of the Rev. 
Martin Luther King Jr. ... Several university-community partnerships aimed at 
helping underachieving students already exist, and representatives from several 
UNC groups attended the church service and the march. ... A number of 
events also are slated to take place at UNC this week as part of the university’s 
weeklong celebration of King’s life and work. ...
http://www.triangle.com/triangle.com/communities/chapelhill/story/2120168p-2018140c.html

Student fees to pay for recreation center
Chapel Hill News
A UNC Board of Trustees committee today is slated to approve an increase in 
student fees of about $75, with at least an additional $37 increase already in the 
pipeline for the 2004-05 school year. ... 
http://www.triangle.com/triangle.com/communities/chapelhill/story/2120047p-2018135c.html

Roses and Raspberries
Chapel Hill News
... Roses to the 10,180 fans who turned out Monday for the Duke-Carolina 
women’s basketball game at Carmichael Auditorium. It was the largest crowd 
in UNC women’s basketball history, and while the home team lost, fans were
treated to a thrilling overtime game that recalled the best of the old arena’s 
excitement in the Michael Jordan years. ... 
http://www.triangle.com/triangle.com/communities/chapelhill/opinion/story/2120029p-2018106c.html

Women take center court 
News and Observer
For two hours Monday, women's college basketball in the Triangle provided a 
glimpse of what could be. A school women's record of 10,180 fans packed 
Carmichael Auditorium and saw Duke University beat the University of North 
Carolina 78-67 in overtime in a game that also was televised nationally on cable. ...
http://sports.newsobserver.com/sports/college/story/2118581p-2016755c.html

Foreclosure rates reach new highs
Charlotte Observer
Never before have so many Carolinians faced losing their homes because they 
could no longer afford their mortgages, according to a new report from the 
nation's mortgage bankers. ... Michael Stegman, a professor of public policy 
and business at UNC Chapel Hill, said the growth in homeownership occurred 
largely among low- and moderate-income buyers. ...
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/5001580.htm

Edwards reaches out to African-American community
News 14 Carolina (Time Warner, Raleigh)
Senator John Edwards talked about civil rights, economic inequality, and 
education Monday, all issues important to the African-American community. ... 
“If a Democratic candidate can win three, four, or five Southern states, that 
gives the Democratic ticket an extra boost to win nationally,” Ferrel Guillory 
from UNC-Chapel Hill said. ...
http://rdu.news14.com/content/headlines/?ArID=21836&SecID=2

Issues and Trends Affecting Carolina

Easley plan puts off tax breaks 
News and Observer
Gov. Mike Easley said Tuesday that he wants to postpone $460 million in tax 
breaks scheduled to go into effect during the next fiscal year, including reductions 
in the state's sales tax and income taxes. ... 
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/nc/story/2121750p-2019265c.html

N.C. State faculty censures chancellor 
News and Observer
N.C. State University's Faculty Senate censured Chancellor Marye Anne Fox 
in a 29-6 vote Tuesday, declaring that she had hurt the university's image and 
usurped her provost's authority when she summarily fired two popular academic 
administrators. ...
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/triangle/story/2121808p-2019244c.html

Delicious by degree 
News and Observer
Call it a billion-dollar food fight. Catering to college student's finicky appetites 
has become a big business, as universities across the country try to lure 
undergraduates with java houses, sushi bars and rotisserie chicken. ... "We try 
to find that thing [students] are doing off campus and put it on campus," said 
Ira L. Simon, university food service director at the University of North 
Carolina at Chapel Hill. ...
http://newsobserver.com/business/story/2107562p-2008846c.html

Fire guts dorm at Warren Wilson College
Asheville Citizen-Times
Smoldering papers placed in a recycling shed sparked a fire that gutted a 
dormitory at Warren Wilson College Sunday morning, a Swannanoa Fire 
Department official said. ... The University of North Carolina system made the 
systems a priority after a 1996 fire at a UNC-Chapel Hill fraternity house killed 
five students. New Jersey is the only state that requires both public and private 
colleges to install sprinkler systems in on-and off- campus housing. ...
http://cgi.citizen-times.com/cgi-bin/story/news/27126

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