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

International Coverage

Moderate exercise tied to lower breast cancer risk
Reuters
...Still, there are reasons to believe it can, said lead researcher Lauren McCullough, of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. One possible way is indirectly, by reducing body fat, McCullough said in an interview. Excess body fat is related to higher levels of certain hormones, including estrogen, as well as substances known as growth factors, which can feed tumor development.
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National Coverage

Brain Banks for Autism Face Dearth
New York Times
...Geraldine Dawson, chief science officer at Autism Speaks — the group that administers the autism brain donations at the Harvard bank — and a professor of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina, said, “This is indeed a setback, but it has motivated us more than ever to rebuild this precious resource.”

Moderate exercise appears to reduce breast cancer risk: Q&A
The Los Angeles Times
A new study from researchers at the University of North Carolina's Gillings School of Global Public Health teases out the benefits of exercise in preventing breast cancer, attempting to describe exactly how much exercise at what period of life seems to have the most benefit.
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Apple's Employees Have A Hell Of A Ride
Forbes
...“In the service sector, companies provide a little bit of training and hope their employees leave after a few years,” says Arne L. Kalleberg, a professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina.

No Need for Tax-Exempt Debt as Colleges Avoid IRS: Muni Credit
Bloomberg/Business Week
There have been more than a dozen deals this year, totaling about $3 billion, with more on the way as Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, and the University of North Carolina prepare offerings, data compiled by Bloomberg show. For all of 2011, there were at least a half-dozen totaling about $2 billion, including $750 million of 100-year bonds from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

State and Local Coverage

Social Stability Can Combat Violence In Veterans
WUNC-FM
A new survey led by a University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill professor counters some of the myths about what makes veterans violent. ... Eric Elbogen is a professor at UNC and the lead researcher on this study. He says too often post-traumatic stress disorder - or PTSD - is used as the stock explanation for veteran violence.

UNC Arts Leader To Represent Obama
WCHL 1360-AM (Chapel Hill)
A key member of UNC’s performing arts community is receiving a top honor from President Obama. Emil Kang, who serves as the university’s Executive Director for the Arts, was recently nominated to the President’s National Council for the Arts.

Drama tweens
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
...The kids, students from the Durham and Chapel Hill areas, were participants in the Theatre Quest summer youth camp put on by Playmakers Repertory Company. They spent the week learning some basics of acting as they prepared to put on a show in which they acted out about 30 famous Shel Silverstein poems. Bobby McFerrin’s “Don’t Worry Be Happy” started whistling through the speakers in the Kenan Theatre at UNC Chapel Hill – the lead-in for their performance of Silverstein’s panicky “Whatif.”

Drew Davis, son of Butch Davis, arrives at UNC as walk-on QB
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Drew Davis wanted an opportunity to play major college football. He’ll get his chance as a walk-on at the university that nearly a year ago fired his father amid a multi-pronged NCAA investigation. Davis, a standout quarterback at East Chapel Hill High and the son of former North Carolina coach Butch Davis, enrolled last week at North Carolina and will be a non-scholarship quarterback for the Tar Heels. Larry Fedora, who succeeded Butch Davis as North Carolina’s coach, said he invited the younger Davis to join the team.

Issues and Trends

Out of crisis, opportunity at NCCU (Editorial)
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
As White House chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel popularized an old adage – “never let a crisis go to waste.” The veteran political operative was on to something, of course. We can react to crises with panic and confusion, or we can take the opportunity to focus on changes that, important and obvious though they may be, are unlikely to come about in calmer times. Calmness and inertia can be seductive bedfellows.
Related Link: http://www.herald-sun.com/view/full_story/19089984/article-NCCU-restructuring-focused-on-efficiency--student-success?instance=search_results

Chapel Hill approves $52.5 million budget
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
With little discussion, the Chapel Hill Town Council unanimously passed a $52.5 million budget Monday for the 2012-13 fiscal year. The budget maintains the same property tax rate and is balanced with $1.5 million from the town’s fund balance, a reserve account used to manage cash flow.