May 4, 2004

Carolina in the News

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

National Coverage

Flower Power
Time Magazine
Stop and smell the roses has always been sound advice, but who knew it was also a medical prescription?...At the North Carolina Botanical Garden in Chapel Hill, [Nancy] Easterling oversees HT programs for adult day care, at-risk teens, adults with developmental disabilities and patients with Alzheimer's.

Eat Your Soy, Boy
The Washington Post
Yes, it's true that your wife, girlfriend or significant other has been eating a lot of soy lately, mainly to boost her female hormones....To determine what these plant-based chemicals might do, Steven Zeisel and his colleagues at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill fed megadoses of soy to men as part of a recent National Cancer Institute study.

Deep cover: Sea creatures' surprising defenses
San Francisco Chronicle
"Now, what's the one thing we have to remember about the ocean?" the father fish asks little Nemo in the film "Finding Nemo."...Likewise, the green sea turtle, or Chelonia mydas, navigates using a built-in "map that is at least partly based on geomagnetic cues," reports biologist Kenneth J. Lohmann and his colleagues at the University of North Carolina and the University of Central Florida.

State & Local Coverage

Town wrong to force UNC to join utility (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill Herald
Instead of muttering about lawsuits, Chapel Hill officials should avoid picking a fight with UNC over the town's new storm-water utility. The facts and politics of the issue aren't on their side.

Whither the Catholic vote?
The Charlotte Observer
What effect will North Carolina's growing Roman Catholic population have on our state's politics? South Now, the publication of the Program on Southern Politics, Media and Public Life at UNC Chapel Hill, looked at the changing demographics and found that in 1971, Catholics represented 1.4 percent of N.C. population, but by the 2000 census the number had zoomed to 3.9 percent.

Group rallies Wake school critics
The News & Observer
An activist group is trying to pull together the financial and political backing of disaffected parents and members of conservative groups to end Wake County's busing for student diversity....Jack Boger, deputy director of the UNC Center for Civil Rights and a professor at the UNC-Chapel Hill Law School, said the situation in Wake is different from that in Charlotte.

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