The Oyster Way
It’s sometimes raw and sometimes steamed and sometimes fried. It never moves. But it always works. And we should be kinder to it. The oyster is good to us.
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Science & Technology
King of Trash
Manteo’s Carl Walker wants everybody to bring him their trash. Because he knows that most of it is not really trash — it’s just ready to become the next thing.
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What the Shoreline Tells Us
When most of us look at the ocean, we see beautiful views and an endless horizon. A team of scientists in Duck peers beneath the waves in a high-tech search for insight into people’s relationship to the sea.
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Diving in Deep
With no way to stop the predatory lionfish that have made their way to North Carolina waters, researchers at the Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research lab in Beaufort call for local divers to help curtail the invasion.
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Brilliant Oasis
The Triangle is home to nearly 200 science and technology enterprises. Some of the world’s brightest minds work here and come here to do business. In the midst of this world of activity, some of those bright minds have created a brilliant oasis.
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Textiles to Technology
A scientific facility unlike anything else in the world, the North Carolina Research Campus in Kannapolis masterminds a new future for the former mill town.
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The Everyman’s Weatherman
When folks in western North Carolina need to know what the weather has in store for them, they turn to Ray Russell.
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A Growing Collection
A quarter-century ago, Hillsborough resident W. Steven Burke bought two miniature buildings. Now, he has nearly 1,000, with no end in sight.
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Everyday Inventor
Jerry Neal of RF Micro Devices helped build a company on the microchips in cell phones, but it’s the little daily projects that keep him going, whether he’s fixing up an antique radio or replacing lightbulbs.
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Leading the Way
What a difference 62 years makes: Today, four North Carolina medical schools are raising the standard of patient care and medical research.
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