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January 3, 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:
A Run for White House
Newsday (Long Island, N.Y.)
Washington - First-term Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.), a multimillionaire personal
-injury lawyer, jumped into the 2004 presidential race yesterday, saying he wants
to be a "champion for regular people." ... He went to the University of North
Carolina law school ...
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usedwa033072065jan03.story
(Note: Other coverage highlighting Edwards' Carolina connection includes The
Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and
The Seattle Times.)
American Dreamer
The Washington Post
He was the sort of boy who read history to his younger brother and sister on rainy
afternoons ... His name is Brent Glass. This week he took over the third most
popular museum in the world -- the Smithsonian's National Museum of American
History. ... He did his doctoral work at the University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill, under John Kasson, the noted cultural historian. At Chapel Hill, Glass joined
a fledging oral history project with another new scholar, Jacquelyn Hall. ...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4012-2003Jan2.html
Behind the Wheel
The Los Angeles Times
... A Harvard University study recently suggested that traffic deaths involving cell
phones have increased dramatically in the last few years. ... According to a 2001
study by the University of North Carolina, cell phones are responsible for only a
fraction of the distraction-related accidents. ...
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-wheel31dec31.story
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New teaching approach shuns labeling children
The Record (N.J.)
You know the boy who can't sit still in class? Or the girl who fails the test no
matter how much she studies? ... The boy might have a minor problem with
attention, and the girl a problem with short-term memory, according to Dr. Mel
Levine, whose theories are now being used in public and private schools around
the country, including Clifton and River Edge ... Now a professor of medicine
at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he opened the All Kinds of
Minds Institute with investor Charles Schwab in 1995. ...
http://www.bergen.com/page.php?level_3_id=7&page=6026363
Christian group at Rutgers put in limbo
United Press International
Can a Christian student organization require that its officers be Christian? A lawsuit
may answer this question at Rutgers, the state university of New Jersey ... On
Tuesday the chancellor of another university reversed a similar ruling. On Dec. 10,
Jonathan E. Curtis, assistant director for Student Activities and Organizations
at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, informed the leader of the school's
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship that the university had reviewed the group's
constitution ...
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030102-034234-2298r
Sobering reminder: Kids most at risk of drunk drivers in their own car
Minneapolis Star Tribune
A cautionary note for anyone planning to toast the approaching holidays has
emerged from highway safety research over the past two years ... "But the major
risk for kids . . .is the drivers of their own cars," said Dr. Lewis Margolis, a
pediatrician at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, who did
another. ...
http://www.startribune.com/stories/389/3540724.html
AIDS Drug Targets South Africa
Wired News
It might not sound like a great business proposition: Design a drug for a group
of people who have no money to pay for it. ... Researchers at the University
of North Carolina laid the groundwork for the AIDS vaccine when they
discovered that an obscure bug called the Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis
Virus could be genetically altered to transmit a vaccine into the human body. ..
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,56919,00.html?tw=wn_ascii
VY seeks more time for radiation talks
Brattleboro (VT) Reformer
The new owner of Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant has asked regulators
to extend the deadline for discussions on the state's legal limit for how much
radiation can be released into the environment from the plant. .. But Professor
Steven Wing of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill School of
Public Health, and author of numerous articles on the health effects of radiation
in the Journal of the American Medical Association and Environmental Health
Perspectives magazine, said radiation released from nuclear power plants like
Vermont Yankee increases the risk of cancer and birth defects ...
http://www.reformer.com/Stories/0,1413,102%257E8862%257E1083775,00.html
You could have shorted dot-coms, but didn't
CNET News.com
When the next round of finance texts is written, the American dot-com bubble
of the late 1990s is sure to take its place with the classics--the tulip bubble, the
South Seas bubble, the run-up to the great crash of 1929... He and two
colleagues--Wharton finance professor David K. Musto, and Adam V. Reed,
finance professor at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill--examined the market to see if this was so. ...
http://news.com.com/2009-1086-978479.html
Infertile couples to get another option MCO
Toledo Blade
Medical College of Ohio and Toledo Hospital each intend to begin offering infertile
couples the option of receiving eggs from anonymous donors sometime this year. ...
Dr. Lynda Wolf, director of MCO’s Fertility Center, said she served as director
of an anonymous egg donor program at the University of North Carolina. In her
experience, she said, most donors do it to help, not for the money. ...
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030103&Category=NEWS08&ArtNo=101030094&Ref=AR
National News Note
Bill Ferris, senior associate director of the Center for the Study of the
American South, commented about B.B. King for a special profile featured on
National Public Radio's "Morning Edition" on December 27.
To listen to the segment online, go to http://www.npr.org.
Go the right column under NPR Music, and click on "B.B. King Profile."
North Carolina News Note
WTVD-TV (ABC, Raleigh) is expected to air a story about magnesium supplements
during the early evening news cast tonight with comments from Mildred Seelig,
professor of nutrition. No online links are available.
State and Local Coverage
UNC changes course, OKs InterVarsity
The Herald-Sun
Less than a week ago, UNC steadfastly insisted that a religious student group on
campus was violating a university policy against discrimination by requiring its
officers to adhere to Christian beliefs. ...
http://www.herald-sun.com/orange/10-305026.html
InterVarsity focus, but 16 others asked to change
The Herald-Sun
While UNC’s InterVarsity Christian Fellowship student group has gotten all the
attention recently, more than a dozen other student groups were asked by UNC
officials to make changes to their charters, bylaws or mission statements. ...
http://www.herald-sun.com/orange/10-305025.html
Deal spins cash to pharma schools
Triangle Business Journal
A $21 million acquisition of a Raleigh company that closed with little notice will
benefit students at the state's two pharmacy schools and possibly at pharmacy
schools in other states to the tune of about $800,000 annually. ... The lion's
share of the cash – about $16 million – is going to the Pharmacy Network
Foundation, a charity trust set up to aid in the training of students attending
pharmacy schools at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and
Campbell University in Buies Creek. ...
http://triangle.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2002/12/30/story4.html
Study finds need for diet tips
News and Observer
Primary care clinicians should provide specialized counseling in nutrition for adult
patients who are at high risk for cardiovascular disease, a national report released
today recommends ... The recommendation is based on a report from a team led
by Dr. Michael Pignone and Alice Ammerman, researchers at Research Triangle
Institute and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. ...
http://www.newsobserver.com/front/story/2058529p-1979476c.html
(Note: A related story appeared in The Herald-Sun)
Living longer may lower medical bills
News and Observer
Baby boomers will increase Medicare and other medical expenditures as they
age, but not nearly as much as some analysts have feared, according to a new
study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. ...
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/2058280p-1979441c.html
(Note: A related story also appeared in The Greenville (S.C.) News.)
Black girls take bite out of obesity
The Herald-Sun
A program led by UNC faculty is teaching young black girls and their caregivers
how to keep body and mind healthy in the fight against obesity. The program,
"Girls Rule!", teaches girls ages 6 through 9 and the women who care for them
how to use dietary choices, physical activity and a positive self-image to maintain
a healthy weight. ...
http://www.herald-sun.com/features/54-304785.html
(Note: This coverage is a UNC news release,
http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/oct02/girlsrule102802.htm.)
Ethical by design
News and Observer
A year has passed since the collapse of Enron sparked public outrage over the
greed that dominated corporate America through much of the 1990s. ... At the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Professor Bob Adler, associate
dean of the MBA program, wrote an article in the business school's fall
publication titled, "Sending a strong signal that ethics matter." ...
http://newsobserver.com/business/story/2051037p-1975037c.html
Pondering capital punishment (Commentary)
Charlotte Observer
Are you a strong advocate of the death penalty? Do you zealously oppose capital
punishment? ... And a 2001 UNC Chapel Hill study concluded that a defendant
was 3.5 times more likely to receive the death penalty if he murdered a white
person rather than a person of color ...
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/columnists/dave_baity/4863981.htm
Putting issues 'On the Table'
The News and Observer
One month, we're supposed to be eating more carbs; the next month it's
all about proteins. ... To help you make sense of the latest nutrition
studies and how they affect you, we introduce a new weekly health and
nutrition column called "On the Table" by Suzanne Havala Hobbs, a
registered dietitian in Chapel Hill.
http://newsobserver.com/features/life/story/2058462p-1979550c.html
On the table: Resolve to look beyond headlines (Commentary)
The News and Observer
It's a new year. Great time for fresh starts. A resolution I'd like to
encourage you to make is to think a bit more about what you eat and drink. ...
http://newsobserver.com/features/life/story/2058466p-1979481c.html
(Note: Suzanne Havala Hobbs is an adjunct assistant professor of
Health Policy and Administration in the School of Public Health.)
Study: Plavix and Aspirin Help Heart Patients
WTVD-TV (ABC, Raleigh)
New research from UNC Chapel Hill is very promising for people with heart
disease. It may help cut their risk for future heart attacks, stroke and even death. ...
But new data from a trial led by Dr. Steven Steinhubl at UNC, show long-term
use of a drug called Plavix, can cut those risks by nearly a third. ...
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/health/010203_NH_plavix.html
Issues and Trends Affecting Carolina
Professors Vie With Web for Class's Attention
The New York Times
Universities are rushing toward a wireless future, installing networks that let
students and the faculty surf the Internet from laptop computers in the classroom,
in the library or by those ponds that always seem to show up on the cover of the
campus brochure. But professors say the technology poses a growing challenge
for them: retaining their students' attention. ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/02/technology/02WIRE.html
(Note: The New York Times requires free registration to access articles.)
Tainted Gifts
The Chronicle of Higher Education
A well-documented wave of ethical lapses, corporate collapses, investor losses,
and federal investigations have battered once-mighty corporations like WorldCom,
Enron, Arthur Andersen, and Dynegy in the past year. ... On the campus of the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the religion building, Saunders Hall,
is named for William Laurence Saunders ...
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v49/i17/17a03201.htm
New goal line for student athletes (Editorial)
Chapel Hill News
It’s just a small step, but a recent rule change by the NCAA may bring some
measure of academic integrity back to college athletics. ...
http://www.triangle.com/triangle.com/communities/chapelhill/opinion/story/2055531p-1977542c.html
Lee takes stock after Senate loss
News and Observer
Howard Lee was on a golf course two days before the start of this year, honing
a game he plans to play more in the coming months. ... "As far as the university
is concerned, it's really hard to overstate the position that Howard played in the
last few years," said Jonathan Howes, a special assistant to the chancellor at
UNC-Chapel Hill. ...
http://newsobserver.com/news/story/2060858p-1981275c.html
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