May 5, 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

City Made Deal Without Bids for Training of Teachers
The New York Times
The City Department of Education has awarded a $12.5 million contract for teacher training to a North Carolina nonprofit group run by a pediatrician who specializes in the "demystification" of learning disabilities....All Kinds of Minds is run by Dr. Mel Levine, a pediatrician at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and a respected author on learning disabilities who has appeared on "The Oprah Winfrey Show."

Some Colleges Are Developing Disaster-Management Programs
The Wall Street Journal
Matthew Khaled is no stranger to disasters. The New York native had family and friends who worked near the World Trade Center and escaped the September 2001 terrorist attacks....Many programs enroll a wide range of students. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's community-preparedness and disaster-management program, launched last year, has included firefighters, police, hairdressers, emergency-room doctors and veterinarians and has drawn students from all over the country.
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First there was Beatlemania, now there's Googlemania (Commentary)
USA Today
If there were still an Ed Sullivan Show, the Google founders would get a guest slot, maybe right after Robert Goulet...."It's the first of many technologies that will help rationalize mountains of information," says Al Segars of the University of North Carolina's business school.

State & Local Coverage

Council to hear about Carolina North
The Chapel Hill News
The university will present an overview of Carolina North for the Town Council tonight, despite some council members' concerns that the meeting puts the town at a competitive disadvantage....Tony Waldrop, UNC's vice chancellor for research and development, said officials will address the airport issue in the presentation, including possibly going over how they could reconfigure plans for Carolina North if the airport stayed open years longer than anticipated.

Stress after the storm (Editorial)
The News & Observer
A total of 56 people in Eastern North Carolina succumbed as a direct result of the winds and flooding of Hurricane Floyd. But researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have discovered that at least 20 babies also died when adults, buffeted by the stress of the 1999 storm's destruction, lost control and shook their children fatally.

New Book Searches For Homecooking
Up and Coming Magazine
Although there are lots of these great home cooking places in North Carolina, they are mighty hard to find along our interstate highways....Here is some help from Bill Ferris, director of the Center for the Study of the American South at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Carolina Union may curtail season
The News & Observer
Delays to the $15 million renovations at Memorial Hall will likely force the Carolina Union Performing Arts Series to abandon most of its 2004-05 season....Most of the concerts last season took place at Hill Hall -- a facility that Carolina Union director Don Luse calls "very small, very old and uncomfortable."

Issues & Trends

State budget preview puts raises at 2%
The News & Observer
Gov. Mike Easley's proposed budget includes a modest pay raise for state workers and hefty new spending on job-growth programs, lawmakers briefed on the plan said Tuesday. In a spending plan for the year beginning July 1, the governor will propose a 2 percent pay raise plus a one-time, $250 bonus for state workers and public school teachers, lawmakers said.

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