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The boatbuilding industry in North Carolina has rebounded from its 1980s decline, with approximately 100 companies employing 25,000 workers and pumping $500,000 million into coastal economies. Boatbuilders feel the state should be more involved in their industry. States like New Jersey and Florida give larger tax shares and resources to the boating community than does North Carolina. Others, including New Jersey, Florida, and South Carolina, are sharp competitors for sales.
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Raleigh native Ally Baker is ranked number one among 14-year-old tennis players in the country. She is also at present the highest-ranked female player to come out of the state. To improve her skills and have a chance at a tennis career, Baker recently moved to Boca Raton, Florida, to attend the Chris Evert Tennis Academy.
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Metro Magazine (NoCar F 264 R1 M48), Vol. 1 Issue 4, May 2000, p30-34, il, por Periodical Website
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In 1950, the North Carolina General Assembly in a controversial move appropriated $1 million to make possible the purchase of the founding Kress Collection for the North Carolina Museum of Art. Today the museum's holdings number over 5,000 masterworks valued at over $1 billion.
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John Coffey, chief curator of the North Carolina Museum of Art, heads a staff that includes Rebecca Martin Nagy, Dennis Weller, Mary Ellen Carr Soles, Huston Paschal, and David Steel. Working together over two decades, the staff has established the museum as one of the nation's best.
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Metro Magazine (NoCar F 264 R1 M48), Vol. 1 Issue 7, Sept 2000, p14-18, 20-21 Periodical Website
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Tift Merritt is a 25-year-old, award-winning Raleigh singer/songwriter, who critics say has a bright future in country music. She has toured from the Smokies to New York City. Recently she performed in Nashville and also finalized a major management deal there.
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Metro Magazine (NoCar F 264 R1 M48), Vol. 1 Issue 8, Oct 2000, p12-14, 16, il Periodical Website
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For the first time in its 68-year history, the North Carolina Symphony will have its own performance hall. On February 21, 2001, the symphony will play a grand-opening concert in the new 1,700-seat Meymandi Concert Hall in Raleigh. Prior to this, the symphony played in Memorial Auditorium, a venue shared by a variety of performing groups.
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North Carolina refused to ratify the new Constitution in 1788, unless a list of rights for all citizens was added to it. To win over North Carolina and other states, James Madison sent twelve handwritten copies of the rights to the states; they were accepted. Today this list is known as the Bill of Rights. After the Civil War, the state's handwritten copy was stolen from Raleigh by a Union soldier and carried to Ohio. Jonsson follows the exciting events from the theft of the document in 1865 to a clever sting operation by federal law enforcement officials that recovered the historic paper in Philadelphia in 2003.
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Union soldiers may have spared Raleigh's architecture when they sacked the city in 1865, but they made off with more than a few chickens; the prize was an original Bill of Rights, signed by John and Samuel Adams. The North Carolina bill turned up again in Philadelphia in 2003 and came home to North Carolina after 138 years.
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Metro Magazine (NoCar F 264 R1 M48), Vol. 4 Issue 6, July 2003, p14-15, 18-19, f Periodical Website
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It wasn't until the late 1960s that the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals made a home in Raleigh, North Carolina. Thirty-three years later, the SPCA is taking another historic step: a $4.3 million fund raising campaign that is scheduled to yield a 17,000-square foot, state-of-the-art, pet adoption and education center in Raleigh.
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In a major coup for American arts, ballet now competes with basketball for the Triangle's adoration and respect. Now, with the grace of a pas de chat, Carolina Ballet expands its repertoire, reach, and budget deficit.
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Metro Magazine (NoCar F 264 R1 M48), Vol. 2 Issue 7, Sept 2001, p44-45, 47-48, f Periodical Website
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