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Focusing Your Investigation

Posted by The Commentators | Mar 21, 2014 | The Commentators

This is Lew Margolis. As Attorney Kenneth Wainstein begins the latest next investigation of the impact of big-time sports on UNC, I’d like to offer two suggestions. First, refrain from using the term “student-athlete,” because...

Q&A: Amithyst Hampden of Team UNC Wellness Center

Posted by Staff | Mar 19, 2014 | Healthiest You

What do you like? I enjoy running after the 15 minute start, because at that point my body is in the zone and I can keep going for another 15 with less effort than in the beginning. That burning sensation when your muscles are...

North Carolina-Florida Women: Political Bellwethers

Posted by D.G. Martin | Mar 19, 2014 | D.G. Martin, Town Square

What important Democratic woman politician, a Wake Forest alumna who was born in North Carolina and later moved to Florida, has gained national attention this year for her candidacy in a critical bellwether election? There are...

Team Twig Scales The Wall

Posted by Staff | Mar 18, 2014 | Healthiest You

Anne Justus and Ken Norman (along with coach Gabby) of Team Twig were next up on the climbing wall:

Siobhan Allen On Getting Healthy As A Team

Posted by Staff | Mar 17, 2014 | Healthiest You

Siobhan Allen of Team UNC Health Care joined our Aaron Keck to talk about how how her fellow team members help motivate her to get fit.

China, The Canary in the Coal Mine

Posted by Jeff Danner | Mar 16, 2014 | Common Science, Town Square

When I started writing Common Science in 2011, I did not envision devoting so many columns to resource constraint issues. However, every time I listen to the news or read the paper I am assaulted with warning signs of rapidly...

Jennifer Marsh On Exercises That Work For Her

Posted by Staff | Mar 14, 2014 | Healthiest You

The challenge has been fun, and I have tried lots of new things in my goal to complete the BINGO card. Last Sunday I finished all the items on the card, the last one being rock climbing at the Cary facility. That was the...

My-Linh Luong Goes Wall-Climbing!

Posted by Staff | Mar 13, 2014 | Columns

My Linh Luong, of Team Orange / Massage Envy Spa, took her Healthiest You Challenge to the next level by taking on the climbing wall. Assistant Coach Matt Bonds and friends Valerie Metros and Letian Dong joined her, and they...

Matt Bonds, Assistant Coach of Team Massage Envy at Eastgate, On Making Progress

Posted by Staff | Mar 12, 2014 | Healthiest You

Matt Bonds of UNC Wellness Center at Meadowmont joined our Aaron Keck to talk about his team’s progress, and to offer his tips for getting in shape for summer!...

“A Mountain Populist To The Very End”

Posted by D.G. Martin | Mar 12, 2014 | D.G. Martin

When long-time legislator and lawyer Martin Nesbitt died last week at age 67, he was already on my mind for a column. The news of his stomach cancer, followed quickly by his death, shocked those who remembered his powerful...

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