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Carrboro, once adjoining Chapel Hill's less affluent western neighbor, has transformed into a trendy artistic and culturally diverse community, referred to by locals as the Paris of the Piedmont, Chi-carrboro, or the Seattle of the South. These clever labels dramatize that Carrboro's visual arts, performing arts and music community is gaining attention.
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Leutze discusses the issue of Offshore Energy as it applies to North Carolina.
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Smith discusses what the new healthcare reform bill means for providers and patients alike, specifically in North Carolina.
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The Carolina Beach Development has taken a big step in developing a Master Development plan to help enrich the natural, cultural and recreational resources of Carolina Beach, North Carolina.
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Located in the center of a hundred-mile radius that encompasses the booming Research Triangle, dramatic Outer Banks and Tidewater region, the community of Merry Hill seems a mere dot on the North Carolina map. This hamlet was once the seat of the 8000-acre Scotch Hall Plantation, the largest antebellum plantation in Bertie County. Today, the privately owned extant plantation house shares it setting with another Scotch Hall, Scotch Hall Preserve. This new Scotch Hall, a 900-acre residential and golf community adds a new dimension of the area's picturesque landscape of small towns, productive farms, and great expanses of blue water.
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6.Virtual Heroes Assist Medical Emergencies by Smith, Rick Metro Magazine Vol. 11 Issue 6, July 2010
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Jerry Heneghan is the managing director of Raleigh-based Virtual Heroes that works with Duke University to transform how medical students are trained. The firm uses cutting edge video game technology that provides virtual reality and 3D in a propriety package known as \"HumanSim.\"
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Airlie Gardens is a virtual paradise of almost 70 acres owned and operated by New Hanover County, on the eastern edge of Wilmington on Bradley Creek. It boosts 100,000 azaleas and some 50,000 camellias, and now a new butterfly house.
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With a booming, largely affluent population and an economy anchored by high-tech stalwarts, Cary wraps up the first decade of a new century with strong momentum for continuing growth in the years ahead. Long overshadowed by urban stalwarts Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill, the town of Cary is rapidly raising its own profile as a Triangle community where growth is welcome, but managed.
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Nationwide, hospital emergency departments are seeing an increase in patient visits. A death of primary care physicians, coupled with a rise in uninsured patients, is among the contributing factors. In the National Report Card on State of Emergency Medicine, North Carolina an overall C- with areas of failing in access to emergency care and medical liability.
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Dr. Stan Riggs and his colleagues at East Carolina University have just turned out a first-class study and prognosis on North Carolina's coast. In the most recent piece, NORTH CAROLINA'S COAST IN CRISIS: A VISION FOR THE FUTURE, Riggs has gone from observing to predicting--the seas are rising at an increasingly rapid rate and believes the Outer Banks will become a series of islands rather than a narrow barrier island.
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Ensrud recommends a series of excellent North Carolina-made wines as well as road trip-worthy wineries in the State.
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Built on the site of the first English colony, the Elizabethan Gardens in Manteo, North Carolina, on the Roanoke Sound are unique in the New World. By maintaining the authenticity of 16th century England, the gardens offer a wide appeal to horticulturists, nature lovers, history buffs, and culture seekers.
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If you have ever dreamed of owning a vacation or second home in the North Carolina mountains, the best buying opportunity in a generation may well be at hand. Prices have dropped, interest rates are low and good deals can be found anywhere.
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The issue of drilling for oil and gas off the coast of North Carolina coast has a long history. But despite this history, one question remains: is there sufficient quantities of oil off the North Carolina coast to make its recovery commercially attractive?
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Despite the modern craze for synthetics, there is an active, centuries-old culture of handmade, wooden work boats that persists along the Crystal Coast of North Carolina. This has also been accompanied by North Carolina's ascent as one of America's premier wooden yacht yards--Jim Moore's Marine Yacht Center.
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