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National Coverage

Back to Basics for Leadership After Lehman
The Wall Street Journal
WSJ's Erin White discusses what has and has not changed one year after the fall of Lehman Brothers, with the Dean of UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, James Dean.

See Baby Discriminate
Newsweek
...Minority parents are more likely to help their children develop a racial identity from a young age. April Harris-Britt, a clinical psychologist and professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, found that all minority parents at some point tell their children that discrimination is out there, but they shouldn't let it stop them. Is this good for them? Harris-Britt found that some preparation for bias was beneficial, and it was necessary—94 percent of African-American eighth graders reported to Harris-Britt that they'd felt discriminated against in the prior three months.

Doctor-Patient Talk May Help Blacks With Hypertension
HealthDay News
Black patients with high blood pressure often seem to struggle to communicate with their doctors, potentially leading to worse disease outcomes, a North Carolina study suggests. "It seems that in general, blacks talk less overall to their physicians than white patients," study author Dr. Crystal Wiley Cene, an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill, said in a university news release. "As a result, communication about specific topics occurs less often."

Regional Coverage

For better or worse, in weight gain (Column)
The Detroit Free Press (Michigan)
...But this year, it was different. I wanted to see if my 17 years of wedded bliss had added pounds to my figure. I was interested because a new study by Drs. Natalie S. The and Penny Gordon-Larsen from the University of North Carolina finds that partners who marry or live together are twice as likely to become obese as those who are dating. And, after only one year, "love handles" are more likely to occur on women than on men.

State and Local Coverage

Authors draw on their professions
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Fact may be stranger than fiction, but history and fact also inform and inspire a good, suspenseful story. John Grisham, a trained lawyer and author of "The Firm," "The Pelican Brief" and other legal thrillers, and Kathy Reichs, a forensic anthropologist and the author of "Death du Jour" and other novels, have both produced large bodies of work that draw on their respective professions. They discussed that relationship at a session in Memorial Hall at UNC Chapel Hill Thursday titled "From Reality to Fiction." The talk opened the 2009 North Carolina Literary Festival, which continues through Sunday.
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http://www.heraldsun.com/pages/full_story/push?article-Brooklyn+in+the+1990s%
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UNC Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/2816/73/

Blue Dogs want to see more
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
North Carolina's two Blue Dogs say they're ready to move forward on health reform, as long as the path veers away from the thousand-page bill being considered by the U.S. House of Representatives. ..."Some of the commentary coming out of the White House has ratcheted up the pressure on the Blue Dogs in this sense: They're being told the whole party will be hurt if the Democrats don't succeed," said Ferrel Guillory, director of the Program on Public Life at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

UNC Doctor Dissects Obama's Speech
WCHL 1360-AM (Chapel Hill)
The topic of health care reform was the focal point of President Barack Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress, and the rest of the nation. Dr. Brian Goldstein, chief of staff for UNC Hospitals and executive associate dean for clinical affairs says he was happy to hear the President address defensive medicine.

UNC: 343 People Seen For Flu Symptoms
WCHL 1360-AM (Chapel Hill)
While the Novel H1N1 virus is back in the headlines nationally, new figures from UNC indicate the number of cases is growing, but it’s no outbreak. In fact, it’s unclear if the number of confirmed cases is even H1N1 itself, according to Mary Beth Koza, Director of Environment, Health and Safety for UNC. During the first week of classes on the UNC campus, 25 students by Campus Health Services for flu-like illnesses. No numbers are available for this week yet.
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massive-%20&id=3570451-Orange+flu+cases+not+-massive-&instance=main_article2
UNC Information:
www.piersystem.com/go/doc/1395/271695/#g1

Millions of fish probably suffocated
WTVD-TV (ABC/Raleigh)
Experts say approximately 2 million fish found dead in the Neuse River over the past week probably suffocated. Test results are expected next week, but experts say low oxygen saltwater along the river bottom mixed with the upper layers of fresh water caused the deaths. Scientists at UNC - Chapel Hill's Institute of Marine Science in Morehead City have been measuring oxygen levels along the bottom of the river. Professor Hans Paerl said conditions were "ripe for a fish kill."
Related Link:
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1684126.html

Immigration debate is calm
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Ron Woodard repeatedly pointed out that he was outnumbered six-to-one, but no one shouted him down as he opposed allowing illegal immigrants to attend the state's community colleges. ...But UNC professors Hannah Gill and Paul Cuadros, who have both written books about the experiences of immigrants in North Carolina, argued that U.S. businesses caused mass immigration by recruiting foreign workers, that Americans benefit from the cheap labor and that public policy should anticipate that immigrant teenagers will still be here in the future.

Sax Appeal
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Grammy Award-winning saxophonist Sonny Rollins, who burst from the Harlem jazz scene in the 1950s and has been recording influential tunes in all or parts of six decades, will kick off the Carolina Performing Arts' 2009-10 season on Sept. 22. With a musical career that spans more than half a century and includes collaborations with Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis and John Coltrane, Rollins, 79, is one of the last surviving jazz legends of his generation.
UNC Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/2852/1/

Issues and Trends

A trio of powerful N.C. women
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Joining GlaxoSmithKline boosted Deirdre Connelly's power ranking. Connelly, who became head of GSK's North American pharmaceutical business in February, is No. 37 on Fortune Magazine's latest list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in business....A few other Tar Heels made Fortune's latest list. Sallie Krawcheck, who dropped off the list last year, returned at No. 30 after being named president of Bank of America's global wealth and investment management. Krawcheck, 44, is a UNC-Chapel Hill grad.