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• First professional degrees: 2005-2006

  - 2007-07-12

  FIRST PROFESSIONAL DEGREES 2005-2006 All Disciplines Combined AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRST PROFESSIONAL--HBCUs vs. TWIs 2006 Rank Institution State ...

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• Top 100 undegraduate degree producers: interpreting the data

  - 2007-05-31

  Who were Alexander Lucius Twilight and Mary Jane Patterson? If you know, you are an excellent candidate for the "Jeopardy" category, "African-American firsts." Knowing the topic of this edition of Diverse, you can probably guess the answer: "They were the first African-American male and female to be awarded bachelor's degrees...

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• Women who suffer from "transformed migraine" experience a significant reduction in headache frequency and intensity after taking simple steps to improve their sleep behaviors, a University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, study has found

  - 2006-10-01

  Women who suffer from "transformed migraine" experience a significant reduction in headache frequency and intensity after taking simple steps to improve their sleep behaviors, a University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, study has found. Transformed migraine develops in individuals with episodic or occasional migraine, but these headaches progress over months...

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• Latta, S.C., leads cheers for Latta, UNC

  - 2006-03-24

  Even Latta residents knew about the other Latta, the star guard for the University of North Carolina's women's basketball team. The South Carolina town of Latta (2000 population: 1,410) is about two hours east of Ivory Latta's hometown of McConnells (pop. 287), also in the state. "She's great....

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• Food: Mercury Rising

  - 2006-02-27

  Is your dinner fishy? There might be reason to worry. A recent study from the University of North Carolina at Asheville found that one in five women of childbearing age tested for mercury had levels that could cause neurological damage in babies. The culprit: fish--eaten by many of the 6,600...

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• The Great Catastrophe of My Life: Divorce in the Old Dominion

  - 2005-09-22

  The Great Catastrophe of My Life: Divorce in the Old Dominion. By Thomas E. Buckley (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xiv, 346 pp. $19.95 paper; $59.95 cloth). Something like fifty percent of American marriages end in divorce: This is a figure much quoted, and much lamented,...

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• Breast cancer: new hope for young.

  - 2005-09-18

  Byline: Nick O'Malley Sep 18, 2005 (The Sydney Morning Herald - ABIX via COMTEX) -- A US study of 50,000 women shows that digital mammograms are much better at detecting ...

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• Survival at stake: University of North Carolina's Dr. Adaora Adimora searches for answers into HIV transmission among African Americans

  - 2005-03-24

  CHAPEL HILL, N.C. During the 1980s and into the '90s, HIV and AIDS primarily affected gay White men. The rates of HIV/AIDS stabilized in the 1990s in the United States, but today the numbers are soaring again. This time around, victims are more likely to be Black and heterosexual....

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• On the relationship between fitness and running volume and intensity in female soccer players.(Part III: physiology and kinanthropometry)

  - 2004-06-01

  While there are many reasons to assess the fitness level of an athlete, one purpose might be to predict eventual performance. This has been a common project in individual sports like running, swimming and cycling; little attention has been paid to team sports because of the ...

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• After the Revolution: Gender and Democracy in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Guatemala

  - 2002-12-01

  Wolford, Wendy Social Forces 12-01-2002 After the Revolution: Gender and Democracy in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Guatemala Byline: Wolford, Wendy Volume: 81 Number: 2 ISSN: 00377732 Publication Date: 12-01-2002 Page: 680 Type: Periodical Language: English After the Revolution: Gender and Democracy in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Guatemala....

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