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In April 1999, the Magic Wings Butterfly House opens. Located at Durham's Museum of Life and Science, the house is the first of its kind in the region and will contain approximately 1,000 butterflies representing 200 species from all over the world.
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4125
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Heritage tourism, or visiting an area for cultural enrichment, is one of the fastest growing segments of the state's second largest industry, tourism. This kind of tourism is also receiving national and international attention. Among the cities that showcase their heritage are Hillsborough, Salisbury, and Spencer.
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4126
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Brunswick County is poised for growth and expansion. For example, already in place is a pro-business infrastructure. A major deep-water port is nearby, as is the growing University of North Carolina at Wilmington, plus five industrial parks that beckon to start-up companies or those thinking of relocating.
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Heritage tourism, or visiting an area for cultural enrichment, enables towns of any size to market their existing attributes. From tiny Milton, with 400 people, to Charlotte, with hundreds of thousands, each city has history and culture to showcase. Towns can offer such niche interests as flowers, dulcimer and banjo making, pottery, and glassblowing.
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Earl N. Phillips, Jr., chairman and CEO of GE Capital First Factors of High Point, is the new chairman of the North Carolina Citizens for Business and Industry (NCCBI) for 1999-2000. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1962 and later from Harvard Business School.
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Meredith College, the Southeast's largest private women's college, will induct its first female president in the summer of 1999, when Dr. Maureen Hartford becomes the school's seventh president. The Charlotte native was vice-president for student affairs at the University of Michigan prior to accepting the Meredith position.
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