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Carolina in the News

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

National Coverage

The Military's Protocol for Capitol Hill
"Day to Day" National Public Radio
Dick Kohn, a history professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, spoke with Robert Smith about military ethics and the protocol armed forces personnel must follow when they testify before Congress.

Paralysis likely for Bills' Everett after unfortunate injury
USA Today
A day after Buffalo Bills tight end Kevin Everett suffered a spinal injury in his team's season opener, a doctor who performed surgery on Everett said his injury remained life-threatening and he faced long odds to walk again. ...Most football neck injuries occur at the high school level. In data covering 1977 through 2006, the National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research at the University of North Carolina has documented 269 "catastrophic" injuries to the cervical cord among football players. That includes 222 cases in high school/junior high, 33 among collegians, nine among pros and semipros and five sandlot players.
Related Links: http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2007/09/all-too-real.html
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/paper-trail/2007/9/11/a-generations-defining-moment.html
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sep07/911memorial090707.html

Financial incentives can encourage weight loss, research finds
USA Today
Money motivates people to slim down. Overweight employees who were paid a small amount lost more weight than those who weren't compensated for their efforts, according to one of the first studies to examine such a strategy at workplaces. ...He teamed with researchers at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill to recruit more than 200 overweight or obese employees in North Carolina. A third were given no financial reward for their weight loss after three months; a third were given $7 for every 1% drop in their body weight; a third were given $14 for every 1% decrease.

Retirement And Marriage
Forbes.com
Research has shown some common threads about the effects of retirement and working (or not working) on couples. ... You may have heard the saying, "Twice the husband but half the money." According to Ronald J. Manheimer, executive director of the North Carolina Center for Creative Retirement at the University of North Carolina, women's fears in retirement include losing one's identity (becoming more prevalent with the increase in the number of retiring professional women), being responsible for their spouses'/significant others' social life and entertainment, experiencing a disruption of their established patterns, needing to take care of everyone, financial and health issues and outliving their spouse.

Regional Coverage

The dangers of concussions
The Gazette (Gaithersburg, MD)
In the 11 years that Tom Mulholland coached college football, he saw only one catastrophic head injury, during a scrimmage. Last fall, in the third week of his first season coaching Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda, Mulholland saw another. ... In conjunction with the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research at the University of North Carolina, Boden studied 94 cases of severe football head injuries, like Bieber’s, reported during the 13 football seasons between 1989 and 2002. While researchers found 0.67 severe head injuries per 100,000 players in high school, at the college level that number dropped to .21 per 100,000 players.

State & Local Coverage

UNC dedicates 9-11 Memorial Garden
News 14 Carolina (Raleigh/Durham)
Dozens of people gathered on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus Tuesday to dedicate a memorial garden to the six alumni who died during the terrorist attacks six years ago on Sept. 11, 2001.
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http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/699908.html
http://www.newsobserver.com/nation_world/september11/story/701014.html
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/1803339/
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sep07/911memorial090707.html

650 enrolled at science and math school
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
With 650 students, the N.C. School of Science and Mathematics has its largest enrollment ever. ... The school -- like state universities -- is considered a constituent school of the UNC system. All graduates can attend a state college or university tuition-free. The school last year sent nearly 80 percent of its graduates to UNC system schools.

Study links diabetes drug to heart risk
The Winston-Salem Journal
Avandia, a widely used but controversial drug used to treat diabetes, increased users’ risk of heart attacks by 42 percent and doubled their risk of heart failure, researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center have found. ... Dr. John Buse, the president for science and medicine of the American Diabetes Association and the chief of endocrinology at UNC Chapel Hill’s School of Medicine, says he has never widely prescribed Avandia to his patients. But that doesn’t mean that he would take patients off the drug if he thought that it kept their diabetes under control.

Impeachment
WUNC
As efforts to impeach President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney pick up steam nationally and locally, host Frank Stasio sits down the Michael Gerhardt, Samuel Ashe Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law at UNC-Chapel Hill, to discuss the history, legacy and future of impeachment.

Wake Forest school ranks high on survey
The Winston-Salem Journal
...The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University was ranked No. 21 in the world and No. 13 among U.S business schools. Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC Chapel Hill was ranked No. 24 in the world and No. 15 among U.S. business schools.

Closed-door sewer meetings questioned
The Charlotte Observer
A Union commissioner says he is uncomfortable with recent closed-door board meetings about sewer permit policy and believes they may have violated the N.C. Open Meetings Law. ...David Lawrence of the UNC Chapel Hill School of Government said closed session discussions that fall under the attorney-client rule are "supposed to be discussions about legal issues with the attorney or presentations about legal issues."

Issues & Trends

Roses & raspberries
The Chapel Hill News
RASPBERRIES to the UNC planners who threw the Chapel Hill Town Council a curveball that threatened to upset the delicate balance of trust and cooperation between town and university. For some time now, the university has been planning to build something called the Innovation Center, a facility for turning faculty research into commerce. The project has been planned for a site on the south side of Estes Drive, near a complex of existing university buildings near Airport Drive.

New Durham DA may be ineligible
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
A law signed by Gov. Mike Easley last month appears to make David Saacks ineligible to serve as Durham County's district attorney. ... Thad Beyle, a political scientist at UNC-Chapel Hill, said Tuesday that it was difficult to sort out the confusion about the law and that questions of power are hazy issues best decided by the courts.