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National Coverage

For everything — including chemo — there is a time (Blog)
The Los Angeles Times

Doctors often wonder if there is a best time of day for cancer patients to receive chemotherapy. Past research suggests there probably is an optimal time based on the body's circadian rhythms. Now, a compelling new study offers some biological proof for the idea. Researchers at the University of North Carolina have discovered that chemotherapy is probably most effective at particular times of day when an enzyme system in the body that can blunt the impact of the drugs is at its lowest levels.
UNC News Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/health-and-medicine/unc-study-supports
-role-of-circadian-clock-in-response-to-chemotherapy.html

Your Team Lost? Don't Blame Jet Lag
National Public Radio.org

Maybe you heard it a few thousand times before the Arizona Cardinals traveled to North Carolina to play the Panthers: West Coast teams are terrible on the East Coast this season. …Dr. Kevin Guskiewicz agrees. He's chairman of the department of exercise and sport science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and one of the nation's leading experts on head trauma and football-related concussions.

Regional Coverage

Holder battle has broad ramifications (Blog)
The Boston Globe

When the confirmation hearing for Eric Holder, President-elect Barack Obama's choice for attorney general, begins this morning, the expected battle will be over more than whether Holder is the right man to rebuild the Justice Department. …William Marshall, a law professor at the University of North Carolina and a former Justice Department official under Clinton, agreed that Holder will ultimately be confirmed, but said Republicans want to retaliate for Democrats' rough treatment of Gonzales during his confirmation, their harsh criticism of the Justice Department under President Bush, and their use of procedural tactics to stall some of Bush's nominees for federal judgeships.

State and Local Coverage

4,885 offered fall admission to UNC
The Chapel Hill Herald

UNC offered admission Wednesday to 4,885 students chosen from a record first-deadline pool of 13,692 applicants. …"We couldn't be happier with the quality and the diversity of this class," said Stephen Farmer, associate provost and director of undergraduate admissions. "With first-deadline applications up 16 percent over last year, we were fortunate to have an extraordinarily broad and deep pool."
Related Links:
http://heraldsun.southernheadlines.com/durham/4-1070941.cfm
http://www.wral.com/news/news_briefs/story/4310239/
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1367966.html
UNC News Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/campus-and-community/unc-chapel-hill
-offers-admission-to-4885-first-year-applicants.html

Conference at UNC-CH pools thinking on solar technologies
WRAL.com

Scientists concentrating on a new generation of technology that turns sunlight into electric power are putting their heads together at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. …The consortium is a collaboration of Duke University, North Carolina State University, UNC-Chapel Hill and the private think-tank RTI International.
Related Links:
http://www.newsobserver.com/business/story/1367899.html
http://www.wchl1360.com/details.html?id=9111
http://www.newsobserver.com/business/story/1368390.html
UNC News Brief:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/science-and-technology/securing-our
-energy-future-is-topic-of-jan.-15-talk.html

Kenansville chosen as research site
News 14 Carolina

Researchers with the National Children’s Study picked Kenansville to be the backbone for the largest long-term study of its kind in the United States. Researchers will be working from the facility to begin enrolling participants. The study will be overseen by the University of North Carolina's Carolina Population Center.
UNC News Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/health-and-medicine/rural-n.c.-county
-n.y.-borough-kick-off-largest-ever-long-term-u.s.-child-health-study.html

UNC Students Heading To D.C. For Inauguration
WNCN-TV (NBC/Raleigh)

Some students at UNC-Chapel Hill are getting ready to take a trip to Washington D.C. for Barack Obama's inauguration. …Vivek Chilukeri, a UNC Senior and Chapel Hill native, said the inauguration has been the talk of campus. "The first question I get from friends is, 'how are your classes going?,'" he said. "The second question, 'are you going to the inauguration?'"

'I am going to see With My Own Eye'
The Winston-Salem Journal

In 2005, James Hunder watched from Winston-Salem as Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was elected the first female president of his homeland, Liberia. …Other Africans who live in the U.S. had similar feelings, said Julius Nyang'oro, the chairman of the African and Afro-American Studies program at UNC Chapel Hill. "Obama demonstrated that you could go through the glass ceiling," he said.

Hope for Housing?
"The State of Things" WUNC-FM

Home prices fell 18 percent over the past year. That means home prices dropped back to where they were in March of 2004. UNC-Chapel Hill Finance Professor Ed Van Wesep and Ellen Schloemer, of the Center for Responsible Lending, join host Frank Stasio to discuss steps the incoming Obama administration can take to heal the spiraling housing market.

When did Perdue take office?
The Charlotte Observer

Bev Perdue became governor Saturday when, hand on Bible, she swore the oath. Or did she? …John Sanders, former director of the Institute of Government at UNC Chapel Hill, says the oath matters. “The other qualification is to present oneself for the oath taking and the induction,” said John Sanders, who helped rewrite the North Carolina Constitution in the 1970s.

Booze just click away? (Editorial)
The Salisbury Post

…A study designed by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill should help policymakers as well as parents gauge the extent of illegal online booze sales. Financed with a $400,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the researchers will enlist a select group of college students (aged 18-20) who will attempt to buy alcohol online, testing how diligently Internet sellers try to weed out illegal purchases. A few years ago, a similar UNC-Chapel Hill project revealed how easily underage buyers could obtain cigarettes or other tobacco products from online sellers, and it led to an effective crackdown on such sales. Researchers are hoping to bring the same kind of scrutiny to online alcohol sales.
Related Link:
http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/letters/story/1367850.html

Facing up to fiction (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)

A recent news report observed that North Carolina had reached a remarkable milestone: Just one person received a death sentence here in 2008, and no one was executed at Central Prison. And yet our state reached a nearly similar milestone nearly 50 years ago. In 1961 just one execution took place, and for the next 20 years the death chamber remained dormant. Now, for the second time, North Carolinians' ambivalence about the death penalty has pushed execution out of use. (Seth Kotch is a historian and coordinator of Oral History Digital Initiatives at the Southern Oral History Program of UNC-Chapel Hill.)

Will petition bypass council? (Editorial)
The News & Record (Greensboro)

Even if the City Council says no, county lawmakers still may support restoring protest petitions in Greensboro. State Rep. Maggie Jeffus broached that possibility Tuesday after a UNC-Chapel Hill professor's presentation on the petitions, which give residents in other North Carolina cities, but not Greensboro, additional leverage in zoning disputes. …She was part of a large crowd on hand to hear a presentation to the local League of Women Voters by UNC-Chapel Hill Institute of Government professor David Owens. Lawmakers usually defer to the wishes of a local city council in such cases, Owens said.

Cuban Jews return to homeland
The News & Observer (Raleigh)

…Cuba was once home to a thriving community of Jews, many of whom immigrated to the Caribbean island in the mid-20th century to escape persecution in Eastern Europe and the rise of the Nazi party in Germany or simply to find a better life. …"Few people left Cuba thinking they would go into exile permanently," said Louis Perez, professor of history and an expert on Cuba at UNC-Chapel Hill. "The conventional wisdom among upper middle class Cubans was that they would wait it out in Miami. America would clean things up, and they would go back."

Train-stop quest picks up steam
The News & Observer (Raleigh)

Suddenly, two years after it was the object of a local coffee-shop petition, real momentum exists behind the drive to establish a passenger train depot in northern Orange County. …"This is a main line that passes through town," said Tom Campanella of Hillsborough, a UNC-Chapel Hill city planning professor. "We're literally sitting next to a jugular vein here. All we need to do is tap into it."

Despite ban, teen cell phone usage while driving increases
WRAL-TV (CBS/Raleigh)

North Carolina law prohibits teenagers under 18 from using cell phones and texting while they drive. …"Younger drivers, we know from our research, are at a higher risk of crashing than any other age," said Eric Rodgman, with the UNC Highway Safety Research Center. "Their attitude is that they don't see themselves as being a risk to get involved in a crash or be injured," Rodgman said.

Gaza teach-in tonight at UNC
The Chapel Hill Herald

A panel discussion titled "Understanding Gaza: A Teach-in on the Current Crisis" will be held at 7 tonight at UNC Fed Ex Global Education Center, Nelson Mandela Auditorium, corner of Pittsboro and McCauley streets. The panel includes Laila El-Haddad, freelance journalist from Gaza; Rann Bar-On, Israeli activist and grad student at Duke; Marty Rosenbluth, former Amnesty International USA's specialist for Israel, currently attorney with Southern Coalition for Social Justice; and Sarah Shields, UNC professor of Middle Eastern History.

Official: Carolina North timeline 'not too aggressive'
The Chapel Hill Herald

A June deadline for completion of a Carolina North development agreement is not too aggressive, Roger Perry insisted Wednesday during the latest meeting between the UNC Board of Trustees and Chapel Hill Town Council. Perry, the trustees chairman, was responding to resident warnings that the two institutions won't be able to give the matter due diligence in the allotted time.
Related Link:
http://www.wchl1360.com/details.html?id=9115

Issues and Trends

UNC system looks at campus hate crimes
News 14 Carolina

The UNC system community will get a chance to speak out about hate crimes on Thursday as the commission formed to look at the issue is holding a public hearing at the Spangler Center near UNC Chapel Hill. UNC President Erskine Bowles formed the commission last month in response to racist graffiti that was found on N.C. State’s campus at their Free Expression Tunnel.
Related Links:
http://orange.mync.com/site/Orange/news/story/24493/forum-held
-to-discuss-unc-system-code-of-conduct/

http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=6605657
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/4318089/

County should follow Thorp's airport lead (Letter to the Editor)
The Chapel Hill Herald

Thanks to UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp for his recent decision regarding the airport. His reasoning and judgment were absolutely on target. If only the County Commissioners could apply the same to the transfer station. (Max M. Kennedy, Hillsborough)

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