Orange county, which is chapel hill. There is an airstrip of Durham County connecting to 80 of the people in the district. A district is best known as diverse and growing district economically, demographically. We like to say the new south. Referred toot only shedding some of the negative aspects of our history, but really charting a new course. The Research Triangle story is pretty familiar and pretty well internalized around here. A group ofears ago leaders in business and education and government had this vision that these wornout fields in the area between arham and raleigh might be new source for industry, especially for hightech enterprise or Research Related enterprise. So the Research Triangle was born. It was not an immediate success. Ibm became the anchor and pretty soon it blossomed. Region and thriving id say thats what we are best for. Wehink the biggest challenge face here in this district is the challenge of managing growth and achieving fairness, equity, justice in our
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The team from barnes noble have the books for sale. Please do consider purchasing the book and help us bring more great authors in st. Louis. So tonights presented by the author series, the program was started in 2004 and presents authors of politics, history and sports. You can visit the program for the list of businesses and organizations that sponsor the westfall series. Our next west fall event will be next tuesday, may 23. We will host our first fiction writer when jeff shara will be here. Hes a writer who writes sort of military history, history base , but they are novelizations of historical events. Its about the korean war. Onto tonights program, Leigh Montville former columnist, former Senior Writer and ,as written biographies including babe ruth. Tonight he will share his new biography of one of the most celebrated athletes, muhammad ali, appropriately titled sting like a bee. He takes a look at the subsequent legal battle that took him all the way to the Supreme Court. Suspe
She challenges the notion that the midwest is merely a collection of flyover states, s collections. On this talk is part of the fifth annual midwestern conference hosted by the helen stein center at granville university. Good morning. My name is eric. I am an associate professor of africanamerican studies and history at the university of illinois or vanish and pain. Urbana champaign. Ours my honor to introduce keynote speaker, my friend and colleague, dr. Kristin hoganson. She is professor of United States history at the university of illinois at urbana champaign. She specializes in the history of the United States, cultures of u. S. Imperialism, transnational history, and the midwest. Professor hoganson has enjoyed a productive and accomplished academic career sense achieving her phd in history from yale in 1995. Following graduate school, she taught at harvard for five years before accepting a position in history at the university of illinois. In terms of her professional service, sh
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