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"Don't lie for the other guy" campaign to tour N.C.

By BRETT STURM | March 31

For North Carolinians who hope to get by firearms laws with a little help from their friends, things just got a lot tougher. Representatives from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the National Shooting Sports Foundation announced Wednesday a national joint campaign, "Don't Lie for the Other Guy," will come to gun retail locations throughout the state. The campaign aims to cut down on illegal straw purchases - a process in which one purchases a firearm on behalf of someone who legally cannot.

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SAT writing falls below radar

By BRETT STURM | March 31

As colleges across the state enter the final stages of determining next year's freshman classes, a new feature on applications is receiving little attention - the writing section of the SAT. All students who applied to UNC should know whether they've been accepted by today. And officials at both UNC and Duke University said the results of the writing section had minimal effect on the admissions processes for those students. "Ultimately, the process will be different," said Steve Farmer, director of admissions at UNC. "We don't know what the difference will be yet."

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Research lab breaks ground

By BRETT STURM | February 24

KANNAPOLIS - Twin smokestacks, bearing the names Fieldcrest and Cannon, loomed over the half-demolished textile mills - standing testaments to the end of an era in Kannapolis. On Thursday, yards away from those towering relics, more than 250 Kannapolis residents and leaders celebrated the beginning of a new era with the official groundbreaking for the Core Laboratory of the N.C. Research Campus.

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Journalist shares war zone tales

By BRETT STURM | February 17

A war correspondent visited Chapel Hill on Thursday afternoon wearing neither his flak jacket nor his helmet. James Bunn, a freelance journalist and former MSNBC correspondent, shared some of his experiences with a crowd of about 40 journalism students in Carroll Hall. Tracing his 2002 tour in Kandahar, Afghanistan, to almost a month spent covering conflicts in Tel Aviv, Israel, and the West Bank, Bunn provided insights into what it means to be an embedded journalist, working feet away from danger.

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NCSU, IBM initiative to offer services courses

By BRETT STURM | January 18

N.C. State University and IBM announced the formation of a new graduate curriculum Monday that focuses on services sciences, management and engineering. The initiative, the first of its kind, will allow students to specialize in the kind of services-related work that is in high demand in the technology sector. That work, including IT consulting and the streamlining of business processes, represents more than half of IBM's total revenue, said Paul Maglio, senior manager of service systems research at IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif.

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Arizona universities live with sharp tuition increases

By BRETT STURM | October 12

Students attending Arizona's two largest public universities have weathered three years of the sharpest tuition increases in the state's recent memory. A USA Today survey reported a 74.1 percent increase in tuition at the University of Arizona since 2002-03 and a 70.4 percent increase during the same span at Arizona State University. Despite the steep rise, the University of Arizona and Arizona State still rank near the bottom in tuition costs among public state universities.

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"Don't lie for the other guy" campaign to tour N.C.

SAT writing falls below radar

Research lab breaks ground

Journalist shares war zone tales

NCSU, IBM initiative to offer services courses

Arizona universities live with sharp tuition increases

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