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The North Carolina Business Hall of Fame will induct three outstanding business leaders in the fall of 2007. They are Ed and Charles Shelton and James B. Hunt, Jr. The Sheltons, after successful business careers, opened Shelton Vineyards in Dobson, which is the largest family-owned estate winery in the state. Hunt, the state's only four-term governor, chairs institutes he founded at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at North Carolina State University.
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The executive MBA is a unique program for executives and business leaders who choose to continue their education. The program usually has year-round instruction which allows participants to continue working while earning a degree. This type of program is a “cohort program,†or one in which participants attend courses for a specified period of time with the same group of people. Knowland summarizes this program at four universities--Duke, Queens, UNC-Chapel Hill, and Wake Forest.
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While textiles and furniture have dominated North Carolina's manufacturing scene for decades, a new industry is emerging--plastics. The state ranks seventh nationally in shipments sent by plastics manufacturing companies and eighth in the number of people employed in the industry.
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Zulovich discusses several of the state's hospitals which are expanding to meet the health needs of a growing population. They are Mission Hospital (Asheville); New Hanover Regional Medical Center (Wilmington); Randolph Hospital (Asheboro); and Albemarle Hospital (Elizabeth City).
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The Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station Historic Site at Rodanthe on Hatteras Island is the most complete of the few remaining stations on the East Coast. These stations were the predecessors of the Coast Guard Service, and the stories of the daring rescues they performed are legendary. Chicamacomico closed in 1954 after seventy years of service. Today, the Chicamacomico Historical Association keeps the memory of the station and the men who served there alive through living history performances.
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Pitt County is profiled in this special community focus section. Among the topics discussed are education, including East Carolina University, Pitt Community College, and the Pitt County Schools; Pitt County Memorial Hospital and the Brody School of Medicine; and the county's manufacturing base.
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