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Oct. 27, 2006
Carolina in the News
Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina people and programs cited recently in the media:
International Coverage
Amazon River Flowed Backwards in Ancient Times
Kenya London News
"Although the Amazon seems permanent and unchanging, it has actually gone through three different stages of drainage since the mid-Cretaceous, a short period of time geologically speaking," said study team member Russell Mapes, a graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/oct06/mapesamazon101906.htmNational Coverage
National Broadcast Note:
This evening’s edition of ABC World News with Charles Gibson will include a feature story on Carolina for Kibera and its founder, Carolina alumnus and Marine Capt. Rye Barcott. Every Friday, “World News” features a “Person of the Week,” someone who – for better or worse -- has made a difference to the world or the country or a community. While an undergraduate at Carolina, Barcott and two associates launched Carolina for Kibera, now and international non-governmental organization that has established a youth sports program, girls’ center, medical clinic and waste management program based in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya. ABC’s World News airs weeknights at 6:30 p.m.
Unraveling Pain's DNA
Science Magazine
The role of a gene identified several years ago as an important key to pain sensitivity is now being questioned, for example. "Even 5 years ago, people really doubted that pain was genetic at all," says Luda Diatchenko, a geneticist at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, who is exploring the roles of genes in facial pain.
Food for thought
USA Weekend
A study at the University of North Carolina found that preparing to eat is actually more dangerous than eating itself. The reason: Reaching for those McNuggets takes your eyes off the road and can cause swerving.
Dole confident in continued Republican control of Senate
Media General News Service
Ferrell Guillory, the director of the Program on Southern Politics, Media and the Public Life at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said that Democrats are surprisingly competitive in some states - particularly Virginia and Tennessee - but he does not expect them to take control of the Senate.
Regional Coverage
Pa. sheds top spot in public college pricing
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A new survey says Pennsylvania is no longer the most costly state for public college prices, having dropped to fifth nationwide among four-year campuses and fourth among two-year schools. ... At the news conference, James Moeser, chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, outlined his school's push to significantly expand access for low-income students but also noted how pressure to compete drives up prices.
Texas Gulf Coast bays face flooding, Rice researchers warn
The Houston Business Journal
Major Texas Gulf Coast bays and waterways could experience significant flooding and expansion during the 21st Century due to quickly rising sea levels and declining silt deposits, Rice University researchers have found...The research team was led by John Anderson, the W. Maurice Ewing Chair in oceanography and professor of earth science at Rice, along with scientists at the University of North Carolina and Oklahoma State University.
Health Conference Features a Number of Topics
KIFI-TV (Jackson, Idaho)
Jonathan Abramowitz, associate professor at the University of North Carolina said, "In a place where there's so many people practicing in a rural setting, I think it's very important to get people together have these kinds of conferences where we can share ideas and hopefully educate lots of people, so they can go back into their practices to help more and more people."
State and Local Coverage
No Ordinary Bus
News Topic (Caldwell)
Hibriten High School Students recently had the opportunity to conduct an investigation like the actors on CSI when they climbed aboard the University of North Carolina's traveling science program to determine which subject had sickle cell disease.
Note: This article is unavailable online.
UNC Media Advisory: http://www.unc.edu/news/media/2006/destinymorganlen101606.htmThe Napkin Manuscripts
"The State of Things," WUNC-FM
Michael McFee was born and raised in western North Carolina and has lived and taught in the Triangle for most of his adult life. He's the author of seven books of poetry and he holds a distinguished chair as a professor at UNC-Chapel Hill. His newest book, "The Napkin Manuscripts" (University of Tennessee Press/2006) collects his prose pieces that speak to the nature of home, the process of writing poetry and the mystery of effective teaching.
Note: "The State of Things" is the statewide public affairs program airing live at noon weekdays. Today's edition will rebroadcast at 6 a.m. tomorrow (Saturday).Down in the mouth? Just grin and bear it
The Charlotte Observer
Some dentists say it's too much money for the state to commit. Others speculate that most dentists were trained at UNC Chapel Hill's dental school, and don't want their alma mater to face a new challenger for faculty, students and state funding.
Racism seen in district voting
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Chatham County's ballot measure on district elections has become tinged with accusations of racism...Ferrel Guillory, founder of the Program on Southern Politics at UNC-Chapel Hill, said the argument that the black community would be disenfranchised bucks the general trend in the country.
UNC athletics director outscores his detractors (Letter to the Editor)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Dick Baddour, athletics director at UNC-Chapel Hill, has been criticized for a very tough personnel decision. Like many others, I admire coach John Bunting for his integrity, his values and his love of the university, and am disappointed that the football team's record this year has not lived up to its pre-season promise. To call for Baddour's removal as athletics director, as some have done, is in my opinion terribly misguided... (Lissa L. Broome is professor of law at UNC-Chapel Hill.)
Dick Baddour a proven winner at UNC (Opinion Column)
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Dick Baddour, the athletics director at UNC-Chapel Hill, has been criticized by some sports writers, editorial writers and fans. He has just made a very touch personnel decision. Like many others, I admire football coach John Bunting for his integrity, his values and his love for the university, and am disappointed that the team’s record this year has not lived up to its pre-season promise.
Note: This article is unavailable online.A considerate move (Letter to the Editor)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
As predictable as the sun rising in the east was your Oct. 26 editorial condemning UNC-Chapel Hill for terminating football coach John Bunting mid-season. UNC is said to have abandoned "principle and compassion" with the timing of its firing of Bunting, whose 1-6 team struggled to even be competitive in its ACC contests.
Bunting's teaching (Letter to the Editor)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The loss of UNC-Chapel Hill football coach John Bunting will be felt in the community as well. As the father of a diehard 9-year-old Tar Heel son, I have been pressed into the rather difficult position of explaining the firing.
More letters to the editors from today’s News & Observer: http://www.newsobserver.com/663/story/503110.html
http://www.newsobserver.com/663/story/503106.html
http://www.newsobserver.com/580/story/503109.html
http://www.newsobserver.com/663/story/503107.html
http://www.wchl1360.com/details.html?id=2080More options for seniors foreseen
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Livable and senior-friendly communities are a theme at this week's Conference on Aging in Research Triangle Park, sponsored by the UNC-Chapel Hill Institute on Aging, AARP and others.
Spring Forward, Fall Back -- Reset Your Internal Clock
WRAL-TV (Raleigh)
Gaining even that one hour can affect the human body's ability to perform and be alert, but there are simple ways to adjust the body's internal clock, according to Dr. Bradley Vaughn of the UNC Sleep Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Medicine.
Rules to blog by
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
"A lot of bloggers see themselves as these First Amendment cowboys," said Martin Kuhn, who crafted his own blogging ethics code recently while a graduate student at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communication. “‘Hey, we'll say what we want! Nobody tells us what to say.' "
UNC starts Rave Wireless
WCHL-AM (Chapel Hill)
With national surveys showing drops in e-mail use by college students, universities are rethinking how to stay in touch with their student bodies. UNC is rolling out what it hopes will be a solution: a mobile phone service called Rave Wireless.
Issues and Trends
'Special-interest specter' enters judicial races
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Robert Seymour, a well-known liberal and retired minister of Chapel Hill's Binkley Memorial Baptist Church, has been named to the board of the UNC Health Care system. The UNC Board of Governors approved the appointment last week.
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