May 4, 2007

Carolina in the News

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

National Coverage

Guidelines Urge Women To Curb Heart, Stroke Risk
The Associated Press (National)
Nearly all American women are in danger of heart disease or stroke and should be more aggressive about lowering their risk — including asking their doctors about daily aspirin use, the American Heart Association said Monday in new guidelines. ...‘‘This is a really good gathering of evidence in women,’’ after years of studies done mostly on men, said Dr. Sidney Smith, heart disease chief at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and past heart association president.

National Broadcast Note

National Public Radio will air the Sheppard family's story featured in today's News & Observer (http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/570569.html) today during "All Things Considered," broadcast locally on WUNC, 91.5 FM, from 4 to 6:30 p.m.

Regional Coverage

Could 'airport city' lift region?
The Detroit News
Business leaders Thursday pushed for the creation of a regional authority to transform 20,000 acres around Detroit Metropolitan and Willow Run airports into an "airport city" populated by companies that could create tens of thousands of jobs focused on moving people and freight. ...Leaders from the airport, business and government communities must coordinate their planning efforts or the development could end up a mess of buildings and warehouses thrown together, said John D. Kasarda, director of the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at the University of North Carolina.

County delegation learns logistics of Europe's airport cities
The Canton Observer (Mich.)
Logistics may become as important to metro Detroit's future as automobiles have been to its past if Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano can round up support for the development of an aerotropolis. ...The county has been studying the concept for several years, working with John Kasarda, director of the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina. Kasarda is regarded as the leading authority on airport development.

Fairhaven's Unitarian Church seeks Green Sanctuary status
The Standard-Times (New Bedford, Mass.)
When it comes to the disastrous consequences of global warming, most people have gotten the message, according to Sally Beth Shore, an environmental science expert and author of an upcoming book on how working together to solve climate change promises to transform humanity. ...Ms. Shore teaches environmental science at the University of North Carolina, where she earned a master's degree in the same subject and founded the Business and Environmental Student Alliance.

Mental Health Needs Continue in Gulf Coast Due to Hurricanes
KPLC-TV (NBC, Lafayette, La.)
Many residents of the Gulf Coast have rebuilt after the destruction caused by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. ... Doctors from the departments of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina, Duke University Medical Center and Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center portray a grim picture of the instability following the two storms:

Edwards’ rich-man ways weaken his message (Editorial)
The Nashua Telegraph (N.H.)
John Edwards is right. There are two Americas: one for the rich and another for everyone else. He lives in the former and campaigns in the latter, and sometimes he forgets where he is. ...After leaving the Senate and starting his second presidential bid, Edwards opened a poverty think tank at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

State and Local Coverage

UNC Hospitals start Family Alert Initiative
WCHL-AM (Chapel Hill)
The green light is being given to parents to call Code Blue when children need medical attention as UNC Hospitals patients. Pediatric medicine professor Tina Willis says the new policy is saving lives.

Chapel Hill family sets a green example
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Eight-year-old Nadia Sheppard calls the light in her kitchen a "compact Florence" light bulb. But she knows it's "better than the regular ones." ...For today's story, Douglas Crawford-Brown, director of the Institute for the Environment at UNC, visited the family's ranch-style home in the Northwood neighborhood between Weaver Dairy and Eubanks roads.

Adding more bilingual law officers is a challenge that must be met (Editorial)
The Asheville Citizen-Times
Western North Carolina law enforcement agencies feeling the need for more bilingual officers confront a tough challenge. But it’s one that can and must be overcome for the sake of justice and public safety. ...A University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study released in 2006 found that the state’s Hispanic population is almost 700,000, or about 7 percent of the total.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/jan06/economicimpact010306.htm

Hallucinogenic Herb Stirs Debate
WXII-TV (NBC, Winston-Salem)
It's powerful, potent and legal, and it's gaining popularity among teenagers and young adults. ...But Dr. Bryan Roth, a professor at pharmacology at UNC-Chapel Hill's School of Medicine and the parent of a teenager, said making it illegal would be a mistake.

Critic's picks - Classical
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The weekend is awash in orchestral concerts. ...Over at Hill Hall on UNC's campus, competition winner William Clark plays the Adagio movement from Finzi's Clarinet Concerto in a free concert by the Chapel Hill Philharmonia, aided by conductor Donald L. Oehler, who also offers a Walton overture and the monumental Shostakovich Symphony No. 5. Meymandi Concert Hall again hosts young musicians on Tuesday night when the Triangle Youth Orchestra and Triangle Youth Symphony offer short works by Wagner, Copland and Shostakovich, as well as Schubert's "Unfinished" Symphony.

Issues and Trends

House budget ups teacher pay
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
North Carolina teachers would get an average pay raise of 5 percent under a state budget plan rolled out by House leaders Thursday. ...UNC-Chapel Hill, for example, would receive $44 million for its new genomics building, while $10 million would be used to renovate the Ruffin Building, home of the N.C. Court of Appeals.

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