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The new North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics in Durham is the nation’s only public residential school for the gifted. The school is touted as a means of improving science education throughout the state and as an incentive to help lure the expanding microelectronics industry to North Carolina.
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29277
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Elizabeth Hanford Dole of North Carolina is the assistant for public liaison in Ronald Reagan’s White House, former Federal Trade Commissioner, Harvard-educated lawyer, graduate and student body president of Duke University in 1958. This article covers her career in government and how she became the first woman named to a high level position in the new Reagan administration.
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Elizabeth “Liddy” Hanford Dole has roots that stretch back through Duke and Durham to Salisbury, where her father, the late John V. Hanford, ran a florist shop. This article covers Elizabeth Dole’s childhood in North Carolina, and how she developed an interest in politics, eventually becoming one of the nation’s most prominent women.
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29279
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A group of cartoonists in North Carolina is growing in influence, as they have been gainfully employed on newspapers across the state and nation. This article features eight editorial cartoonists who concentrate on local and national topics, using humor to make a point.
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29280
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Every year, millions of Canadian tourists come to North and South Carolina for the mild weather, beaches, and golf. In early December, Governor Jim Hunt proclaimed ‘Canadian Days’ in North Carolina to be held from February 1 through March 15. This is part of an effort to plan, promote, and accommodate tourism in a more efficient way.
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29282
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Edgar Peters Brown is the new director of the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh. Brown comes from Kansas City’s famous Nelson Gallery, and has an impressive resume of training in art history and museum curation. He commends the North Carolina Museum of Art for having the most superlative collection of Old Master paintings.
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29283
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In the last four years, North Carolina has had a dramatic increase in its skiing industry. With that growth, have come problems of crowding and collisions on the slopes. Now a more solitary version of skiing, called Cross-country or Nordic skiing, is becoming popular in the state.
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8.Eddie Cameron: The Coach Looks Back and Forward by Herbert, Dick Tar Heel Vol. 9 Issue 2, Feb 1981
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29285
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Edmund McCullough “Eddie” Cameron served with distinction as one of North Carolina’s most influential sports figures. At Duke University, Cameron was head basketball coach for fourteen seasons, head football coach for four seasons, and athletic director for thirty years. Looking back on his involvement in college athletics, Cameron assesses the future of sports, and the challenges of sustaining the athletes and their programs financially.
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29286
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Pungo Lake is one of seven National Wildlife Refuges in North Carolina. Located in Washington and Hyde counties, the lake is the southern stop for thousands of geese, swans and ducks migrating along the Atlantic Flyway. The best time to visit Pungo is late October through March, when the waterfowl populations are at their peak.
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35913
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This public high school had established an illustrious alumnus in its two decades, including Nobel Prize winners, a secretary of defense. This could be explained in the collegiate atmosphere and coursework offered to the one in six New York residents accepted every year.
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35914
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Collector of currently one thousand artifacts was this self-professed self-taught archaeologist. In his profile was information about who inspired him to take up the trade and circumstances surrounding his first acquisition. Included are descriptions of select items from his collection, such as a flint war axe and Cherokee tomahawk.
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Illustrated were aspiring political cartoonists such as John Pope, UNC-G; Gene Dees, NC State; Dan Brady, UNC-CH; Chuck Wojtkiewkz, Duke. As for their collective source of inspiration, highlighted was two time Pulitzer winner and creator of the “Shoe” comic, Jeff MacNelly.
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