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				<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:24:38 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title>MCNC wins $76M in federal funding for rural NC broadband project</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Research Triangle Park-based nonprofit MCNC will receive more than $75 million to upgrade the infrastructure needed for broadband connections in 69 rural North Carolina counties, Gov. Beverly Perdue’s office announced Wednesday.<br /><br />Read more:  <a href="http://triangle.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2010/08/16/daily35.html" rel="external">http://triangle.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2010/08/16/daily35.html</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:34:00 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title>UNCW ranked 17th on Forbes' best college buys list</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Forbes magazine ranks the University of North Carolina Wilmington No. 17 among "America's Best College Buys."<br /><br />Forbes said it divided each school's overall quality score by its average tuition and fees for 2008. Schools with a graduation rate of less than 20 percent are excluded.<br /><br />Forbes remarked that "the North Carolina university system is well represented on the list, with four schools in the top 25 and seven in the top 50."  The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill ranked the highest at 13, followed by UNC-W; Appalachian State at 20; UNC Asheville, 21; N.C. State, 35; East Carolina, 36; and UNC Greensboro, 37.<br /><br />Read more:  <a href="http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20100816/ARTICLES/100819696/0/news01" rel="external">http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20100816/ARTICLES/100819696/0/news01</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 07:40:31 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title>N.C. ranks fourth in CNBC survey</title>
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<description><![CDATA[CNBC ranks North Carolina as most improved among the top five states for doing business, according to a report the financial TV network released Tuesday.  The ranking elevated the state to fourth from ninth in the annual America’s Top States for Business survey.<br /><br />Read more:  <a href="http://triangle.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2010/07/12/daily28.html" rel="external">http://triangle.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2010/07/12/daily28.html</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:43:32 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title>Journal awards top 10 ranking to ECU medical school</title>
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<description><![CDATA[East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine ranks in the top 10 nationally for its mission of educating doctors for rural and poor communities.<br /><br />A social mission score ranking by George Washington University published this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine journal ranks the Brody School of Medicine seventh in the country based on the number of primary care physicians it produces, the number of those doctors that serve rural and poor areas in need of caregivers and the number of under-represented minorities that graduate from the school,<br /><br />Read more:  <a href="http://www.reflector.com/news/journal-gives-top-10-ranking-medical-school-high-38502" rel="external">http://www.reflector.com/news/journal-gives-top-10-ranking-medical-school-high-38502</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:23:25 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title>UNC study: N.C. coastal communities to grow faster than state, nation in 2010</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The economies of Brunswick, New Hanover and Pender counties are forecast to grow 4 percent during 2010, faster than the state and nation, according to a study from economists at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.<br /><br />North Carolina is expected to grow 1.5 percent, while the nation grows 2.0 percent. Local, state and national economies are forecast to exit the recession late this year.<br /><br />Read more:  <a href="http://triangle.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2009/10/05/daily22.html" rel="external">http://triangle.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2009/10/05/daily22.html</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:34:32 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title>Inner Banks’ University Health Systems among nation's 100 best integrated health care systems</title>
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<description><![CDATA[GREENVILLE, N.C. - A national health care research firm has rated University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina among the nation's most highly integrated health care networks.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:57:46 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title>Gamma Knife technology treats 400th patient at PCMH</title>
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<description><![CDATA[GREENVILLE —Doctors at Pitt County Memorial Hospital have performed more than 400 Gamma Knife procedures since starting the non-invasive treatment in 2005. The Gamma Knife procedure offers brain surgery patients treatment without a knife or an incision.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:51:44 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title>Kiplinger ranks North Carolina “favorite destination” for retirees</title>
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<description><![CDATA[North Carolina made the list as one of 27 states that don’t include Social Security payments as taxable state income. Other factors contributing to the “favorite destination” label included the state’s up to $4,000 exclusion on taxing state and local government pensions; up to $2,000 exemption for private pensions; a sales tax burden that while rising to 4.75 percent after Oct. 1, exempts prescription drugs and medical equipment; and a “circuit breaker” program limiting property taxes for homeowners ages 65 and up to 4 percent of income.<br /><br />Read the Triangle Business News story here:  <a href="http://triangle.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2009/08/17/daily46.html" rel="external">http://triangle.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2009/08/17/daily46.html</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:55:31 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title>Forbes Magazine Ranks N.C. Inner Banks Town 2nd in U.S.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Greenville ranked 2nd for Business and Careers in Small Metro category.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:15:50 -0400</pubDate>
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