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Another day, another study about America's obsession with food, how we eat, and how we can eat better.

Until now, the only way to find out what people in the United States eat and how many calories they consume has been government data, which can lag behind the rapidly expanding and changing food marketplace.

By MARY BAINES District Attorney Robert Evans welcomed Tonya Montanye, new financial crimes prosecutor for Eastern North Carolina, to the Seventh Prosecutorial District on April 8. 'We are pleased to have a prosecutor with the experience and commitment that Ms.

The NC Omega Beta Chapter at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill received the University's award for "Most Campus Involvement." The Brothers at NC Omega Beta are involved in a gamut of organizations, Student Government, IFC, Honor Court, Club Football, the American Red Cross, Habitat for Humanity, Dance Marathon, Relay for Life, Club ... (more)

New York theater ensemble The TEAM -- which will be developing a new performance piece while in residence with PlayMakers Repertory Company at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill -- will unveil its work-in-progress May 29 at 7:30 p.m. at Frey Rehearsal Hall in the Center for Dramatic Art on Country Club Road.

I will be honest here - I am so inured to the culture of corruption, and Monty Python's Black Knight caliber of willful and idiotic denialI didn't think anything UNC scandal related could shock me anymore.

Injectable nanoparticles developed at MIT may someday eliminate the need for patients with Type 1 diabetes to constantly monitor their blood-sugar levels and inject themselves with insulin.

Autism is now the second most commonly diagnosed serious developmental disability, and the number of children identified as autistic continues to grow.

The costly form of radiation therapy that has become the norm for prostate cancer in the United States may be no better than the older, cheaper variety -- at least for some men, a new study suggests.

The $165,000 fine against Yale University for underreporting the frequency of sexual assaults might be a catalyst needed to remind colleges of their obligation to protect students from such crimes, according to a victims' advocacy group.

Austin Peay State University has narrowed its search for a new athletics director down to five strong candidates, and the University will begin interviewing the first two candidates on campus next week.

Safety in academic and other nonindustrial chemical research laboratories will be the focus of a yearlong investigation by a National Academy of Sciences committee, which held its first meeting last week in Washington, D.C. The study will consider how safe lab practices can be promoted in academic and government labs, explained H. Holden Thorp, ... (more)

The study looked at Senate voting records since 1900, and found that the disparity between Democratic and Republican votes on legislation widened over time, and fewer senators now vote independently of their parties.

Until now, the only way to find out what people in the United States eat and how many calories they consume has been government data, which can lag the rapidly expanding and changing food marketplace.

In this photo taken April 3, 2013, nutrition scholar Prof. Barry Popkin, head of the University of North Carolina Food Research Program, discusses his study, what foods Americans are purchasing in stores and eating, in his office at UNC-Chapel Hill.

The S.A. Gilliam Scholarship Awards Banquet is among the highlights of the celebration.

Christian principles are engrained in American society, but the text in which those values are based is cluttered with mistakes, omissions and intentional changes, said scholar Bart D. Ehrman.

New research is raising fresh concern that an age-old treatment for troubled pregnancies _ bed rest _ doesn't seem to prevent premature birth, and might even worsen that risk.

Democrat John Edwards was acquitted in May 2012 on a charge of misusing campaign funds to cover up an affair.

The world's oceans contain nearly a thousand times as much uranium as conventional reserves, and researchers have spent decades trying to develop an efficient way to extract it.