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Revealed: polluting impact of humans on the oceans
The Independent (United Kingdom)
Almost every part of the world's oceans has been tainted to some extent by the destructive footprint of human activity, whether it is from overfishing and pollution or commercial shipping and coastal development. ..."This study quantifies the extent of the problems marine scientists have long known to be issues," said John Bruno, a marine scientist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Romancing the job
The Globe and Mail (Canada)
There's no shortage of people who hate their job. So it's a novel approach to not only suggest you can find a job that you love, but treat the whole process as though you're pursuing your perfect partner. ...In both romantic and career quests, "you need to figure out what you're looking for, make a great first impression, and convince the other person that you're better than the competition," says Mr. (Shawn) Graham, associate director of the MBA Career Management Center at the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School.

Stomach flu vaccine becoming possible
United Press International
A vaccine for norovirus -- highly contagious stomach flu -- may soon be possible, U.S. researchers say. ...The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers analyzed the relationships among the gene sequences of the norovirus strains that have been isolated over the past 20 years.
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National Coverage

Study Finds Humans' Effect on Oceans Comprehensive
The Washington Post
Human activities are affecting every square mile of the world's oceans, according to a study by a team of American, British and Canadian researchers who mapped the severity of the effects from pole to pole. ...Human activities are affecting every square mile of the world's oceans, according to a study by a team of American, British and Canadian researchers who mapped the severity of the effects from pole to pole.
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-to-marine-ecosystems-shows-all-the-worlds-oceans-are-affected.html

McCain-Obama Race Could Redraw Electoral Map
The Wall Street Journal
In recent presidential elections, the electoral map largely has been fixed, with certain regions predictably loyal to one party or another and the competition narrowed to fewer than 20 battleground states. ...Mr. McCain is likely to win, but Mr. Obama could put up a fight, said Ferrel Guillory, an expert on Southern politics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "Republicans would have to defend the state if it's Obama," he said.

How the War In Iraq Is Changing the American Soldier
U.S. News & World Report
Changes, challenges. Today, troops discuss such leadership challenges at countless outposts in Iraq and at the premier centers of military learning. ...And though many argue that soldiers' grumbling about their commanders' decision is a tradition as old as the Army itself, Richard Kohn, a war historian at the University of North Carolina, believes one thing is clear: "I think that coming out of the war, you're going to have a much more candid military."

Regional Coverage

Parents like idea of tighter driving rules
The Wichita Eagle
Parents strongly support imposing more restrictions on teen drivers, including a ban on cell phones and limits on teen passengers, a statewide survey has found. ...The Center for the Study of Young Drivers at the University of North Carolina prepared and analyzed the survey.

A scolding on a platform dedicated to harmony
The Daily News (LaGrange, Ga.)
...Southern Baptists are the second biggest single religious denomination in the country with 16 million members. (The Roman Catholic Church, incidentally, is the biggest.) ...Bart Ehrman is the Paul Gray Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

State and Local Coverage

Variety rules UNC search pool
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The headhunter leading the search for the next UNC-Chapel Hill chancellor said Thursday the pool of candidates is the most impressive he has seen in a long time. ...He said the UNC-CH pool is the best he's seen in five years and credits the university's academic reputation and the state's historic financial support for higher education.
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An earlier challenge to faith
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
...But, as Philip F. Gura reveals in "American Transcendentalism" (Hill and Wang, $27.50, 365 pages), this is hardly the first time that faith has been tested. In his crisply written history, Gura, a professor of American literature and culture at UNC-Chapel Hill, focuses on the period 1830-50, when challenges to religious belief led to a flowering of American thought centered in and near Boston.

Study's look at oceans is sobering
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Despite the oceans' vast expanse across 70 percent of the Earth, their every reach is affected by human activities, a new study by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and others says. ..."There is still a perception that the oceans are the high seas and are so vast," said Elizabeth Selig, an author of the study and a doctoral student in UNC-CH's curriculum in ecology in the College of Arts and Sciences.
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UNC students to do 'Indemnity'
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
The Department of Communication Studies at UNC Chapel Hill will open a new adaptation of James M. Cain's classic noir story "Double Indemnity" at 8 p.m. Thursday in Swain Hall, Studio 6 Theater.

UNC students, high schoolers put area's black history on the record
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
"What shows on the outside doesn't tell the whole story," said Dolores Hogan Clark of her 100-plus-year-old house. "The story beneath those ol' two-stories is a cabin, built by my great-grandparents, who were slaves."...The two-year effort paired local high school students with UNC sociology students, who went into minority neighborhoods gathering oral histories and taking photographs.

Duke, UNC rank low for safety
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Duke University and UNC Chapel Hill are used to battling it out in media rankings. But a new one on campus safety has them both pegged in an unusual spot: toward the bottom. ...Officials at Duke and UNC on Thursday voiced qualms about the methodology Reader's Digest and its consultants used to compile the rankings. The magazine looked at data from 2004 and 2005, the latest it said was available in a database assembled by a media trade group.
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Issues and Trends

In the zone (Editorial)
The Daily Tar Heel
Stop the conspiracy theories now: Carolina North does exist. The Chapel Hill Town Council voted Monday to allow Roger Stancil, the town manager, and Ralph Karpinos, the town attorney, to meet with the University about the development. It's nice to hear that the town council is actually doing something concrete about Carolina North, especially since the University plans to break ground on the first building in 2009.