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March 23, 2007
Carolina in the News
Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina people and programs cited recently in the media:
International Coverage
Early puberty: Greater risk for sex, drugs
United Press International
Teen girls who enter puberty early and have an older boyfriend are at higher risk for substance abuse and sexual activity, found a U.S. study. ..."Parents of all teenagers have a responsibility for talking to their children and guiding them through romantic relationships and the risks of drug use," Carolyn Tucker Halpern of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health said in a statement.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/mar07/colondiet031607.htmlNational Coverage
Workers Compensation: a Closer Look (Commentary)
ABC News
Every so often the American conscience becomes aware of the struggle that those who seek help from our national disability system confront. The plight of our disabled American veterans, horrifying to all of us, makes this one of those times. ...Dr. Nortin Hadler is professor of medicine and microbiology/immunology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an attending rheumatologist for University of North Carolina Hospitals.
Itching for a Space Fight
Science Magazine
The battle between the White House and congressional Democrats over NASA's budget dominated two hearings last week. ...Last year, two North Carolina universities turned thumbs down on a Mann endowment (Science, 26 May 2006, p. 1127), although Mark Crowell, technology transfer official at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, says the door is still open to negotiations.
IBM Responds To Groklaw Web-Hosting Story
InformationWeek
IBM has provided a statement in response to InformationWeek's March 21 story, IBM Helps Fund Web Hosting For Anti-SCO Site Groklaw. We present IBM's statement here: "IBM has no connection to the editorial content posted on Groklaw. Groklaw's website, and hundreds of others, are hosted on a website at the University of North Carolina (UNC), called ibliblio. This site is described by UNC as a public library.
State and Local CoverageCarolina North moves still closer to reality (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill Herald
Horace Williams Airport is going away. The question, as it has been for some years now, is when. The answer, now, is sooner rather than later. ...Two years ago, UNC Chancellor James Moeser, announcing that the university wanted to move AHEC operations to RDU, said he had made the trip to the larger airport in only 18 minutes.
Medical schools expand with programs in foreign countries
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Late last month, Robert Taber stood among throngs of people in Delhi, India. ...UNC-Chapel Hill visited the school last month to talk about research and business opportunities, said Tony Waldrop, vice chancellor for research and economic development.
Peeling the Orange
The Chapel Hill Herald
The trustees at UNC Chapel Hill took some time this week to pat themselves on the back because the university reached its $2 billion fundraising goal. Matt Kupec, vice chancellor for university advancement, gave campaign co-chairman and trustee Paul Fulton three light-hearted gifts: an oxygen mask, a fire extinguisher and a heart-shaped balloon.
UNC to consider Achievement Index
The Chapel Hill Herald
The UNC Faculty Council will consider putting a new performance measure alongside grade-point averages on students' transcripts. ...The method could make it easier to make sense of students' academic performance, said Peter Gordon, who chairs a UNC faculty committee on grading, which is bringing the report to the table.
Critic's picks - Classical
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
...Saturday night in UNC's Hill Hall, faculty member Mayron Tsong plays a free recital of Scriabin preludes and Rachmaninov etudes, along with sonatas by Mozart and Ginastera.
Urban bowhunting plan still on target
The Charlotte Observer
Calling all urban hunters: You could soon kill deer with a bow and arrow within some N.C. cities under certain conditions. ...Reported car crashes involving deer reached an all-time high in 2005 of 15,940 accidents statewide, according to UNC Chapel Hill's Highway Safety Research Center.
He seeks freedom in $173 robbery
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Jimmy Carter was midway through his presidency when Raymond Lee Parker went behind bars for robbing a woman of $173 at a Sunbeam bakery in Durham. ...The way the laws were set up before fair sentencing, said James Drennan, a professor at the School of Government at UNC-Chapel Hill, much discretion was given to the parole commission.
Clemmons council wants to hire economic consultant
The Winston-Salem Journal
The village council has taken steps to deal with a possible economic downturn south of Interstate 40 as a result of Clemmons Town Center. ...Lydian Altman-Sauer, a retreat facilitator with the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, led the council’s discussions.
Game maker seeks Triangle space
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The maker of the Madden NFL and Tiger Woods video game franchises plans to open a Triangle office in the near future. ...In addition to the existing talent, part of the Triangle's attraction are the students in computer science and design programs at UNC-Chapel Hill and N.C. State University, said John Austin, the chief operating officer for Emergent Game Technologies in Chapel Hill.
You're invited to the ball
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Thaw Sint stood in the middle of a square of eight dancers, as couples sashayed past him. ...This musical-chairs-style dance wasn't what Sint envisioned when he joined about 30 other UNC students and locals at the women's gym at UNC-Chapel Hill for a free class Monday night.
Issues and TrendsEdwards to Continue ’08 Bid Despite Wife’s Cancer
The New York Times
John Edwards, the Democratic candidate for president, said today that his wife Elizabeth Edwards was once again suffering from breast cancer, this time in an incurable form. ...According to her oncologist, Dr. Lisa Carey of the University of North Carolina Lineberger Cancer Center, Mrs. Edwards has metastatic or stage-four breast cancer.
Related links: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/23/us/politics/23illness.html
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-03-22-edwards-cover_N.htm
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21433086-2703,00.html
http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/03/22/cancer.edwards/bEdwards, wife promise to campaign ‘strongly’
The Washington Post
Standing in the same courtyard that hosted their wedding reception three decades earlier, former Sen. John Edwards and his wife announced on Thursday that her breast cancer had recurred and severely worsened. ...(Lisa) Carey, an oncologist at the University of North Carolina who has treated Elizabeth Edwards for several years, later gave a fuller explanation of her patient’s condition, at the request of the Edwardses.
Related links:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/22/AR2007032201871.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/22/AR2007032201423.html
http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.aspx?feed=FT&Date=20070322&ID=6653616Cancer has reached most serious phase
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Elizabeth Edwards' breast cancer is "completely treatable," John Edwards said Thursday, but it also is advanced and incurable. ...Elizabeth Edwards' oncologist, Dr. Lisa Carey of UNC Hospitals, said the ductal carcinoma originally diagnosed in the fall of 2004 has spread to a right rib, surrounding bones and, possibly, to her lungs.
Related links: http://www.heraldsun.com/orange/10-832211.cfm
http://www.heraldsun.com/orange/10-832211.cfmThe Kinder, Gentler Summit
Inside Higher Ed
When the history of the Spellings Commission and its aftermath is written – the real history, not the serialized, on-the-fly version that’s been appearing in these pages for the last 18 months – one of the dominant themes is likely to be the alternating conflict and concurrence between American higher education and its sometime foe and sometime friend, the Margaret Spellings-led Education Department.
Textbook Relief (Editorial)
The Winston-Salem Journal
The University of North Carolina Board of Governors helped college students with both their wallets and studies last week when they mandated relief from textbook prices.
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