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National Coverage

Deadliest Melanomas on Scalp and Neck
Ivanhoe (Newswire)
People who have melanomas on their scalp or neck may be up against the toughest odds of all with the deadly skin cancer. New research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill reveals those patients die at nearly twice the rate as patients with melanomas on other parts of their body. “We think there’s something different about scalp and neck melanomas,” lead author Nancy Thomas, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of dermatology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, was quoted as saying.
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on-scalp-and-neck.html

Learning from George Washington's Leadership
Business Week
...Washington's management style is the subject of a new book by Mark McNeilly, associate professor of marketing at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill's Kenan-Flagler Business School. George Washington and the Art of Business: The Leadership Principles of America's First Commander-in-Chief (Oxford University Press, 2008) examines Washington's career, including his defeats and how he learned from them to build the foundation for modern America.

Regional Coverage

North Carolina stumping no longer 'Southern-fried'
The Atlanta Journal Constitution (Georgia)
When Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton visit North Carolina, they don't have to trudge through a tobacco warehouse or talk about guns. ..."If there's a North Carolina [presidential] debate, it will look and sound much like the debate in Pennsylvania," said Ferrel Guillory, founder of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Program on Public Life.

U.S. women fear food, self-image
The Washington Times
It's not just the epic struggle with calories and the waistline. Anxious, angry and melancholy, 75 percent of American women admit to "disordered eating" owing to a fear of fatness, distorted self-image and unrealistic expectations about dieting, according to research released yesterday by the University of North Carolina's School of Medicine.
UNC News Release:
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behaviors-among-three-out-of-four-american-women.html

Agnostic’s questions have biblical answers
The Kansas City Star (Mo.)
In the church of his youth in Lawrence, with nearly every pew at capacity last week, Bart D. Ehrman, chairman of the department of religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, announced that he was an agnostic. He joked that atheists think agnostics are wimpy atheists and that agnostics think atheists are arrogant agnostics.

State and Local Coverage

Uphill fight awaits in Tar Heel state
The Charlotte Observer
Tuesday's Pennsylvania win gave Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton a needed boost as she heads into what promises to be a stiff battle in North Carolina's May 6 primary. ..."All these candidates are going to have to fight against all the noise from ... the presidential race," said Thad Beyle, a political scientist at UNC Chapel Hill.

Clinton returning to Fayetteville on Thursday
The Fayetteville Observer
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York returns to Fayetteville on Thursday — this time to Methodist University. ...Two campaign appearances in Fayetteville in less than a month may seem unusual, but political analysts say they are not surprised. Ferrel Guillory, director of the Program on Public Life at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said it comes down to numbers.

Testing should be offered, not forced (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The prevalence of HIV infection among state prison inmates is several-fold higher than that of the general population. This is no surprise to anyone with an understanding of the dual epidemics of imprisonment and HIV in the United States. (David A. Wohl, M.D., is associate professor of medicine at the UNC Division of Infectious Diseases and co-director of HIV Services for the state Department of Correction. David Rosen, Ph.D., is with the UNC School of Medicine.)

Iceblink
"The State of Things" WUNC-FM
Antarctica may seem like a world away to most of us, but for globe trotter and University of North Carolina music professor Brooks de Wetter-Smith, the coldest place on Earth was a must-see destination. De Wetter-Smith traveled there last year and thoroughly documented the sights and sounds of the region to share with his colleague, Allen Anderson, also a professor of music at UNC. Together, they have created a multimedia art project called "Iceblink" that combines de Wetter-Smith's photography with Anderson's original musical compositions. Both professors join host Frank Stasio to talk about their creative collaboration before the show premieres this weekend at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.
Note: "The State of Things" is the statewide public affairs program airing live at noon weekdays and rebroadcast at 9 p.m. Mondays-Thursdays.

Maxine Swalin Tribute
"The State of Things" WUNC-FM
In the 1930s, Benjamin and Maxine Swalin were a plucky, creative couple who saw a need for cultural expansion in North Carolina. ...For her 105th birthday, Maxine will be honored with a concert recital (Sunday, April 27, 2 p.m., UNC's Memorial Hall) played by pianist Fred Moyer and cellist Nancy Green at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Moyer, Green, and Marsha Warren, co-chair of the Friends of Maxine Swalin Committee join host Frank Stasio to talk about this living North Carolina treasure.
Note: "The State of Things" is the statewide public affairs program airing live at noon weekdays and rebroadcast at 9 p.m. Mondays-Thursdays.

UNC Chapel Hill honors WNC students
The Citizen-Times (Asheville)
UNC Chapel Hill honored 67 students at a recent awards ceremony. At least three honored seniors were from Western North Carolina: Andrew Stephen Ray, of Arden, received the Edward Kidder Graham Award, for his contributions to the university through his membership in a student organization...
UNC News Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/students/67-unc-students-receive-academic-
service-leadership-awards.html

Eating well for your heart (Column)
The Chapel Hill News
I was in Japan recently, and I was struck by how rarely I saw obese people while I was there. This is dramatically different from the situation here. In fact, the prevalence of obesity is reaching epidemic proportions in the United States -- 60 percent of Americans are overweight and more than one in four of us are clinically obese. (Cam Patterson is chief of cardiology for the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine, UNC Hospitals and the UNC Health Care System.)

Students are seeing bigger picture (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill Herald
This is not about the disagreement that has led to a nearly week-old sit-in at South Building on the UNC Chapel Hill campus. This is not about the question of what the university should do about how UNC logo'd apparel is made, the issue that brought the students to South Building.

Film and discussion
The Chapel Hill News
Angela Shelton, one of the nation's most prominent advocates for survivors of sexual and domestic abuse, will be here this weekend for several events. ...Saturday, Shelton will discuss her own experience and host a screening of her award-winning documentary film, 'Searching for Angela Shelton,' at 5 p.m. in the auditorium of the UNC School of Social Work, Tate Turner Kuralt Building.
UNC News Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/arts/filmmaker-author-presents-unique-perspective-
on-abuse-at-unc-april-26.html

Plane crashes, no one injured at airport
The Chapel Hill Herald
No one was injured as UNC Police responded to a plane crash at Horace Williams Airport at about 2:40 p.m. Tuesday. A family reportedly was aboard the plane, according to UNC police spokesperson Randy Young.
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Issues and Trends

Kids in trouble (Editorial)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
At the intersection of North Carolina's juvenile and adult criminal justice systems there's Trouble, with a capital T. ...Instead, as has been reported, another judge granted (Laurence) Lovette early release. Last month the 17-year-old was charged in the murders of UNC and Duke students Eve Carson and Abhijit Mahato. So this is serious business.
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Empty holsters a silent protest
The Charlotte Observer
Students at college campuses across the Carolinas and the nation are wearing empty gun holsters to class this week to support the legalization of concealed weapons by licensed carriers at school. ...This is the second nationwide protest by Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, a group that got its start on a social-networking Web site. The group debuted on Facebook.com on April 17, 2007, one day after Virginia Tech shootings, said media liaison Jason Blatt, 23, a medical student at UNC Chapel Hill.

Son usurps UNC mascot
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The reign of Rameses XVII ended with the terrible flourish of Greek tragedy -- an "Oedipus Rex" set in the world of football and sheep. After five seasons as the UNC Chapel Hill mascot, the curly-horned monarch was knocked from the throne by a head-butt from his own son Pablo, who hit the elder ram so fiercely that his horn snapped off.
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