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

National Coverage

Study Debunks Operation to Prevent Strokes
The New York Times
...The surgery costs about $40,000, probably 10 times the price of a year’s worth of medicine to reduce the risk of stroke, according to Dr. William J. Powers, the lead author of the study and chairman of neurology at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. But a successful operation would have been well worth the cost, Dr. Powers said, because it is even more expensive to take care of people who have suffered severe strokes.

2012 candidates slip on Econ 101
CNN Money
...Another professor who teaches at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Michael Salemi, was able to identify statements from six candidates that "would earn failing grades in my Econ 101 class." Salemi called Ron Paul's rationale for returning to the gold standard "one of the most dangerous ideas put forward by a politician in recent years."

State and Local Coverage

UNC set for historic game on aircraft carrier on Veterans Day
News 14 Carolina
An aircraft carrier, the President and a military audience.. It doesn't sound like the setting for a basketball game but that's what the UNC Tarheels will be facing Friday. The team is playing Michigan State in the first basketball game played on an aircraft carrier with military members in the stands. Emotions are high with players and the coach ahead of the unique match-up. The Tarheels will be taking on Michigan State aboard the USS Carl Vinson on Veterans Day.
Related Link:
http://www2.nbc17.com/news/2011/nov/08/rain-san-diego-could-affect-carrier-classic-ar-1588621/

Carolina fans to gather for Carrier Classic
WRAL-TV (CBS/Raleigh)
The Carolina basketball team travels to San Diego Wednesday for their opening game of the season against Michigan State aboard the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson in San Diego harbor Friday. Several alumni groups have organized viewing parties across the country as well as service projects to support the military.
UNC Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/4891/68/

Veterans real stars of Carrier Classic (Column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Of all the ties North Carolina's players have to the military, only one has actually been to the military base where Friday's game will be played - technically speaking, anyway. In 1992, Harrison Barnes' mother Shirley was pregnant when she visited her brother Ransom, who was stationed at San Diego's North Island Naval Station at the time. That May 30, she had a son, who is now a sophomore forward for the Tar Heels.

Veterans Day events in the Triangle
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
...About 80 ROTC cadets and midshipmen will assemble in dress uniforms at 11 a.m. Friday for the annual Veterans Day ceremony at UNC-Chapel Hill. The free public ceremony will be outdoors at the Carolina Alumni Memorial in Memory of Those Lost in Military Service, between Phillips (120 E. Cameron Ave.) and Memorial halls. If it rains, the program will be in Gerrard Hall, at 118 E. Cameron Ave. This year’s speaker will be Navy Capt. Douglas Wright, professor of naval science for the N.C. Piedmont Consortium Naval ROTC, which governs ROTC at UNC, Duke University and N.C. State University.
UNC Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/4892/68/

UNC Law School to Host Public Policy Forum
WCHL 1360-AM (Chapel Hill)
The UNC School of Law and the Institute of African American Research are hosting a public policy forum titled “The Crisis in the Juvenile Criminal Justice System” on Wednesday. The forum will include eight guests, including Judge Macia Morey from the Chief District Court in Durham; State Senator Floyd McKissick of Durham; Professor Tamar Birkhead, UNC Law School and Attorney Wendy Green from the Incarcerated Youth Project.

Church and State
"The State of Things" WUNC-FM
As voters across the country go to the polls today, host Frank Stasio examines the long, tangled history between religion and politics in American life. Joining him is Jon Elliston, an investigative reporter with the Carolina Public Press who has recently written about newly released documents describing the relationship between the Rev. Billy Graham and President Richard Nixon. Also joining the conversation is Rev. Nancy E. Petty, pastor of Pullen Baptist Church in Raleigh, NC, and Laurie Maffly-Kipp, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and chair of the school’s Department of Religious Studies.

Art for the layman (Commentary)
The Chapel Hill News
To a visitor, you could say that UNC begins at the corner of Franklin and Columbia streets and its new portal is the 6-month-old Ackland Art Museum store. An open, well-lit, good-smelling space filled with art for sale and for viewing, the store sits at the top of the hill, right under Top of the Hill.

Get your nutrients from real food (Column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The supplement scam continues to unfold. For anyone who has missed the news over the past few weeks, continuing scrutiny of the science adds more evidence that, with few exceptions, nutritional supplements provide no health benefits to healthy adults, and they may even cause harm. For most people, this probably ranks up there as the biggest nutrition surprise of the decade. (Suzanne Havala Hobbs is a registered dietitian and a clinical associate professor in the department of health policy and administration in the Gillings School of Global Public Health at UNC-Chapel Hill.)

Issues and Trends

UNC system 40th anniversary to be celebrated with talk by system presidents
The Winston-Salem Journal
The former presidents of the UNC system and current President Tom Ross will gather Wednesday night (Nov. 9) in Chapel Hill to mark the 40th anniversary of the legislation that brought all 16 of North Carolina’s public universities into the UNC system. Former Gov. Jim Holshouser will lead a conversation with UNC Presidents emeriti William Friday (1956-1986), C.D. Spangler Jr. (1986-1997), Molly Corbett Broad (1997-2005), Erskine Bowles (2006-2010), and Ross.
Related Links:
http://triangle.news14.com/content/649320/unc-presidents-past-and-
present-come-together-to-celebrate-history
http://www.chapelboro.com/UNC-s--Five-Presidents--Unite-For-Rare-Joint-Appea/11413837
UNC Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/4882/68/

Rein in the Halloween monster (Letter to the Editor)
The Chapel Hill News
Following extensive news coverage of Halloween here (CHN Nov. 6), Mayor Kleinschmidt vigorously defends support for this event. At best, his remarks seem disingenuous. (David R. Lee, Chapel Hill. Editor's note: UNC reimbursed the town $45,000 for last year's Halloween policing, which cost $191,000, according to the town. Final costs for this year are not yet available.)