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25282
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The North Carolina Home Builder’s Association has been steadily beating back the Environmental Management Commission and consistently claims that water quality has steadily been improving. Whether these claims are correct or not remains to be seen.
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25684
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Dr. Julie Urban studies desert hoppers, species of plant hoppers that inhabit North American deserts. Since 2010, she has been collecting plant hoppers from around the world and sequencing their DNA in order to reconstruct their evolutionary relationships. Urban hopes to discover the features that allow desert hoppers to inhabit desert environments.
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25886
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While the recent NC Equitable Distribution Act states that the net value of martial estate is available for distribution upon separation, it does not give guidance on the treatment of accumulated debt. Crawley provides some guidelines for classifying martial debt in terms of when it was accrued and to whom it benefits if distributed jointly, how it can be valuated and distributed, as well as effect mechanisms for enforcing the division of such resources.
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26261
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The 1983 session of the General Assembly of North Carolina saw substantial changes made in health legislation. These changes included new health planning efforts, health care funds, statute revisions, and enactments regulating the health professions, provision of health services, health maintenance organizations, medical records, and the right to a natural death.
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26262
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In assessing school health problems, it is the privacy issues that seem most difficult ethically as well as legally. Such issues involve stigmatizing conditions, confidentiality, obligations of school employees, counseling and record keeping.
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26263
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North Carolina law requires school and health workers to cooperate in attending to children’s health and learning needs. There are state statutes on school health, health education, immunization, ability to participate in activities, communicable disease, and child abuse and neglect.
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26267
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The 1982 session of the General Assembly made significant changes in North Carolina health laws. Its major emphasis was on regulating both health workers and costs of care at the state and local government levels and in the private sector.
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26847
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Biologists at North Carolina State University conducted a study on greater snow geese to determine their numbers, movements, and daily activity in the winter season. They discovered that the geese stay close to open freshwater areas in the winter and refrain from flying to preserve energy.
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27691
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Although Moore County is most known for its golfing opportunities, tourism is not the only industry that drives the economy. Diversification has brought in new businesses that take advantage of resources unique to the county. Such industries as real-estate agents and economic developers (like Situs Group LLC); R. Riveter which hires military spouses to make high-end bags from surplus military materials; Reitz Fan and Blower Inc.; Pactiv LLC, the world’s largest food packaging and food-service products producer; and health care all create the fabric of the Moore County economy.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 37 Issue 1, January 2017,
p94, 96, 98, 100-101, il, por
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27695
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Researchers at the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts in Winston-Salem, North Carolina assessed the impact and amount of English furniture imported into Charleston, South Carolina during 1760-1800. While a significant amount of furniture was imported, the Charleston cabinetmaking trade was both large and healthy.
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Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts
(NoCar N 6520 .J67), Vol. 11 Issue 2, Nov 1985,
p1-20, il, bibl, f
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27699
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Researchers at the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts in Winston-Salem, North Carolina examined the jewelry styles prevalent in the Chesapeake during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century. Portraits of Chesapeake ladies reveal significant information about the most personal aspects of material wealth and culture, and the use of jewelry in economic and social structure.
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Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts
(NoCar N 6520 .J67), Vol. 13 Issue 1, May 1987,
p53-103, il, por, map, bibl, f
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28393
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A fish inventory in 2004 of Guilford Courthouse National Military Park in Greensboro, North Carolina was conducted by sampling three reaches of the two streams within the park. The fish community was surprisingly diverse, considering alterations and urbanization of surrounding Greensboro.
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Journal of the North Carolina Academy of Science
(NoCar Q 11 J68x), Vol. 126 Issue 4, Winter 2010,
p77-83, il, map, bibl
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28450
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Ecologists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Institute of Marine Sciences are gathering new information about the effectiveness and outlook of restored wetlands in Wilson Bay. They are also measuring surface elevation and water quality in the marshes.
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28610
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North Carolina’s Durham Hosiery Mills were among the first to use black labor in the southern textile industry. Black women who worked for the Durham Hosiery Mills as skilled workers blazed a trail for later African American workers who battled racist and sexist practices in the twentieth century. The history of African American millhands, their hiring, and the motivations of millowners for hiring them are detailed.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 94 Issue 1, January 2017,
p59-88
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28656
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Wilmington’s City Hall opened in 1859, and featured a theater financed by the town commissioners and the Thalian Association. Known as Thalian Hall, the theater became an integral part of Wilmington life. Besides providing entertainment, it was a place of assembly for a variety of occasions.
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Lower Cape Fear Historical Society Bulletin
(NoCar F 262 C2 L6x), Vol. 27 Issue 2, Feb 1984,
p1-6, f
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