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Good Results From Virtual Education Won't Come Cheap

Posted by D.G. Martin | Mar 5, 2013 | D.G. Martin

Mention on-line education around some of my friends and you will get an emotional reaction. Some senior university faculty members teach classes filled with several hundred students and they worry that famous on-line lecturers...

Food Part IIIA: Wonder Bread is not Wonderful

Posted by Jeff Danner | Mar 4, 2013 | Common Science

This week in Part IIIA of my series on food (I had to split Part III into two as the length was getting a bit out of hand), I’ll be discussing the challenges of maintaining a healthy diet in our current food culture in the...

United Way Cutbacks

Posted by The Commentators | Feb 28, 2013 | The Commentators

The United Way of the Greater Triangle supports a plethora of worthwhile non-profit charitable organizations in Orange and Durham Counties. But its decision to pull the rug out from funding of the Seymour Senior Center wellness...

Dress To Impress

Posted by Kristin Tucker | Feb 27, 2013 | The Fashion Plate

Dress to Impress Ready to land your dream job? That’s the modern professional’s ultimate quest. You research, study and prepare to knock your next employer’s socks off. But how do you decide what to wear? Clothes could be the...

On The War On Deer

Posted by The Commentators | Feb 27, 2013 | The Commentators

I recently read a column by Karin Yates, which appeared in the February 10, 2013, issue of The Chapel Hill News and was entitled ILLOGICAL WAR ON DEER. It is the best article that I have ever read about the insanity and cruelty...

The Eerie Quietness Of A Once Thriving Island

Posted by D.G. Martin | Feb 26, 2013 | D.G. Martin

Portsmouth where? Maine? Virginia? Like many North Carolinians, my friend had not heard of Portsmouth, North Carolina. He was resisting my push to visit Portsmouth in connection with a planned trip to Ocracoke Island to...

Food Part II: The Science of the Stomach

Posted by Jeff Danner | Feb 24, 2013 | Common Science

In the mid 1980s, when I was pursuing my degree, the discipline of Chemical Engineering felt itself to be a cross roads. The perception at the time was that traditional jobs for chemical engineers involving the design and...

Giving in Orange County

Posted by The Commentators | Feb 22, 2013 | The Commentators

When I reached the age of senior discounts, I wondered whether I should accept them. Because others likely have greater need for this generosity, it has become my practice to take the discount, collect these bits of change or...

Counting Credits

Posted by The Commentators | Feb 21, 2013 | The Commentators

The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools is the organization that accredits institutions of higher learning in our region. The accreditation manual is full of standards on governance, finance, libraries, undergraduate,...

Is North Carolina Manufacturing Dead?

Posted by D.G. Martin | Feb 19, 2013 | D.G. Martin

“The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” So said Mark Twain after hearing that his obituary had been published in the New York Journal. And many of the more than 1,000 people who attended the Emerging Issues Forum last...

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