June 20, 2003

Carolina in the News

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

North Carolina News Note

WTVD reporter Emily Lopez did a story yesterday at 
UNC Hospitals in which she videotaped UNC Hospitals' 
translator Maria Olea-Lingg and Dr. Kathryn Witzeman, 
a UNC Hospitals resident, interacting with a patient in 
the N.C. Women's Hospital. This story is expected to air 
tonight on WTVD.

State and Local Coverage

UNC housekeepers rally for workplace respect, fairness 
The Chapel Hill Herald
Toting a copy of UNC's current summer reading book around 
campus Thursday, Dave Brannigan could only shake his head 
at what he felt was some significant irony. 
http://www.heraldsun.com/orange/10-363868.html

Writings' different functions 
News and Observer
Q. Conner Atkeson of Clayton asks, "Do the books of the Talmud 
and hadith function in the same way for Jews and Muslims respectively?" 
"In the Jewish yeshivas and the Islamic madrasas there is a strong 
reliance on following what the great scholars of the past have said," 
said Carl Ernst, a professor of religion at the University of North 
Carolina at Chapel Hill and an expert on Islam.
http://newsobserver.com/features/story/2631991p-2441286c.html

Issues and Trends Affecting Carolina

Report cites need for development 
Chapel Hill Herald
Chapel Hill could breathe life into its downtown by developing 
more residential space, finding room for a supermarket and 
hiring someone to run a downtown development corporation, 
according to a task force report released Thursday. 
http://www.herald-sun.com/orange/10-363913.html

Triangle rates as a star 
News and Observer
Quick -- what does the Triangle have in common with the 
Costa Rican city of San Jose and Chinese city of Suzhou? 
All three areas have a base of technology employers, 
universities and quality of life that make them rising urban 
stars likely to attract more businesses and grow quickly 
in the next 10 to 20 years, according to a recent Jones Lang 
LaSalle report.
http://www.newsobserver.com/business/columnists/story/2621217p-2431584c.html

$100 Million Donation Helps to Establish a Genome Institute
New York Times
In an unusual collaboration prompted by a $100 million donation, 
Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
will establish a research institute intended to apply knowledge of 
the human genome to the practice of medicine. The new institute 
will be named for Eli Broad, a Los Angeles financial executive, 
and his wife, Edythe, who are donating the $100 million over 10 
years. 
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/20/science/20GENO.html

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