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

National Coverage

Why introverts can be great leaders
CNN.com

Outgoing personality traits are often associated with top corporate roles, but new research suggests businesses miss out when they fail to find and promote executives with more understated styles. …(Francesca) Gino and her collaborators, Adam Grant from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School and David Hofmann at University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School, are publishing their research next year in the Academy of Management Journal.

The Taboo Cure for Our National Gloom: Live a Little!
The Huffington Post

…The research is clear that positive experiences keep the anxiety at bay. The University of North Carolina's Barbara Frederickson has shown that it takes three positive events to every negative one to stay in the positive column, since negative emotions are so potent.

State and Local Coverage

Health giants' rivalry heats up
The News & Observer (Raleigh)

WakeMed claims that its rival, the UNC Health Care System, is using its status as a taxpayer-supported institution to create "predatory" competition and disrupt the Triangle's medical market. WakeMed submitted a formal request Monday for financial statements and other records from UNC Health, to determine whether the system is using public money to "shift services and gain an unfair competitive advantage over WakeMed, other hospitals and physician practices throughout the community."
Related Links:
http://www.wral.com/news/state/story/8697031/
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=7814944
http://www.heraldsun.com/view/full_story/10478291/article-WakeMed-seeks-UNC-records
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http://bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2010/11/29/wakemed-questions-uncs-use-of-public.html

Brag and fact (Editorial)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)

There it is, an emerging symbol of the Great Conundrum that stymies the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in these days of roiling controversy surrounding the football program of Coach Butch Davis. As the university awaits word from the governing body of college athletics, the NCAA, on what sanctions it may face related to potential academic misconduct violations in that program, a monument to wretched excess rises in Kenan Stadium.

Thorp's trust (Letter to the Editor)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)

I can't think of anyone who holds the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's fundamental educational charter and reputation in higher trust than Chancellor Holden Thorp. I also can't think of anyone who would be less likely influenced by the furtive, big-time athletic boosters to which you referred in your Nov. 21 editorial "Thorp's call." (Hubert B. Haywood III, M.D., Raleigh)

Issues and Trends

Gov. Perdue says universities must rely on private support
The Star News (Wilmington)

During a tour and discussion Monday afternoon at the University of North Carolina Wilmington's Marine Sciences building, Gov. Bev Perdue stressed that although the university system is still key to the state's economic growth, the private sector is going to have to fill some of the budget shortfalls.
Related Link:
http://www.wral.com/news/state/story/8699824/

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