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After a decade of debate and planning, the School of Veterinary Medicine at North Carolina State University in Raleigh began to take shape in 1979 on 182 acres. The school accepted its first class of 40 student in 1981, and two years later enrollment had grown to 152. This is the first in a series of articles about animal health and care, featuring interviews from faculty from the School of Veterinary Medicine.
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On March 28, 1984, severe tornadoes swept through the Carolinas, cutting a 450-mile path of destruction. The storms were especially destructive in Eastern North Carolina. Homes were ripped apart; huge forests were leveled; forty-four people were killed; roads and fields were impassable in some areas; and tens of thousands of people were without power.
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“Tornado Day†was March 28, 1984, in Eastern North Carolina, as the powerful storms cut a path of destruction across the countryside. Weldon Fisher, who lives with his family in the Beaver Dam community of Cumberland County, recounts what is was like for them to carrying on a conversation one moment and running for their lives the next.
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The Elizabeth II, a 16th-century sailing ship, will be formally opened July 13, 1984, as part of the state's 400th Anniversary festivities. The ship will become North Carolina's only mobile historic site. Permanently based in Manteo, the Elizabeth II will on occasion visit other communities along the coast of North Carolina. The 50-ton vessel took 15 months to build.
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Discovery Place in Charlotte is one of the country's newest science and technology museums. Fifteen years in the planning, the museum opened on October 31, 1981. Over the past two years, the museum's hands-on approach has attracted over a half a million visitors. Among the exhibits are the Ocean Pool, which features sea life native to North Carolina; the Trading Post, where visitors can bring their own collectibles for identification or possible trade; and the Knight Rain Forest, where the rain actually falls in a three-story exhibit of tall trees, plants, birds and animals.
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The North Carolina Utilities Commission requested a major study of the potential benefits of developing renewable energy resources and the possible costs to consumers. Boston-based La Capra Associates, a consulting firm which has advised other states on energy alternatives, conducted the study. The study identified the following renewable resources available in North Carolina: biomass, wind, wood waste, agriculture crop waste, hydropower, and landfill gas. While the list is broad, practical application of these resources in the state is limited.
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Created in 1994 by North Carolina's Touchstone Energy cooperatives, the Bright Ideas program helps teachers who were funding classroom-based projects out of their own pockets. Lashley discusses how two education grants from Cape Hatteras Electric Cooperative sparked an interest in reading at Cape Hatteras Elementary School in Dare County. The successful program received an International Reading Association (IRA) Award for Exemplary Reading Programs.
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8.Silent Speedways of the Carolinas by Wood, Perry Allen Carolina Country Vol. 39 Issue 6, June 2007
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There were once twenty-nine speedways in North Carolina. Each held one Grand National event, and drivers like Richard Petty and Ned Jarrett raced on them. Today the tracks are closed, victims of mega-track building. Wood remembers the glory days of these tracks in his book, SILENT SPEEDWAYS OF THE CAROLINAS. CAROLINA COUNTRY presents excerpts from the book, including the preface and the chapter on Tar Heel Speedway of Randleman in Randolph County.
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In his book, We are What We Were: Memories of Rural North Carolina, Younts recounts country life from 1929 to 1950. In this book excerpt, he describes summertime at country churches, which included revivals, dinner on the grounds, homecoming, and vacation bible school.
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When Ocracoke Island's last fish house closed, not only were fishermen affected but also the island's culture and way of life. The Ocracoke experience was one more example of what has been happening to traditional waterfront activities along North Carolina's coastline in recent years. A way of life has been fading behind shiny new condos and marina developments. Smith describes how the island's citizens responded to the loss of the last fish house.
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The first edition of the North Carolina Agricultural Review, published by the North Carolina Department of Agriculture, came off the press in 1926. It is mailed at no charge to any North Carolina citizen who requests it, and today over 60,000 people receive it. Its mission has remained the same for the past eighty-one years -- to help farmers sell their products.
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The 2007 North Carolina General Assembly passed legislation requiring utilities to generate more electricity from renewable energy resources, such as solar, wind, and biomass. The law requires that by the year 2018, 10 percent of the electricity that utilities generate and deliver to consumers must be from renewable resources.
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In the 1970s, there were no more than ninety breeding pairs of brown pelicans in North Carolina. In 2007, there forty times that many. Gery discusses reasons for the pelican's decline, its comeback, and how its movements are tracked.
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The Blind Center in Washington in Beaufort County is over thirty years old. It began in the 1970s as a way to bring elderly, isolated people together. The mission of the center is to help blind and visually impaired individuals remain as independent as possible. House discusses the center's activities.
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Thomas discusses major issues and concerns facing electric cooperatives today in planning for the future of energy in North Carolina. Among them are growth in state population projected for 50 percent over the next twenty-five years, climate change, energy supply, and costs.
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