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  • TBJ Flash Animazement at Raleigh Convention Center

    Toshifumi Yoshida I'm afraid my answer would be "no." My first guess would be a couple of minor-league baseball players and some Japanese pitching phenom that the Los Angeles Dodgers will overpay for. But I'd be wrong. These are just three names of the many guests who will be at the Animazement festival held at ...

  • LipoScience partners with Mayo Medical Laboratories

    Mayo Medical Laboratories . LipoScience announced that its testing platform will be accessible to Mayo Clinic physicians and patients. The company says via statement that the partnership will help "drive adoption and decentralization" of the Vantera Clinical Analyzer. The analyzer can currently identify and quantify concentrations of lipoproteins, providing doctors with an assessment ...

  • Highwoods expansive plans for MetLifes Cary campus

    a lakeside campus project off Weston Parkway , all but confirming what some are calling the "worst-kept secret in town." Though the documents do not identify MetLife Inc. (NYSE: MET) as the tenant, the company announced in March that it would ...

  • Biographer regrets affair with former CIA director

    The biographer whose extramarital affair with then-CIA director David Petraeus triggered his resignation says she regrets the relationship and the harm and grief it caused her ...

  • The highest-paid CEOs in N.C.

    CEOs of sizeable public companies typically earn millions of dollars a year, once you account for the options and restricted shares included in their pay packages. But CEOs in the Triangle got relatively modest raises in 2012, and several even took pay cuts. What's more, recent filings by companies in Charlotte and the Triad actually leave the Triangle's CEOs looking a little bit ...


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Predator [DVD]

Predator [DVD]

Predator is perhaps the perfect 1980s movie, melding as it does the three most popular mainstream genres of that decade: action/adventure, science fiction, and horror, specifically slasher horrorand its an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie to boot. It takes all those components and mixes them ... ...

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  • Does North Carolina really want an auto plant

    Steve Googe, executive director of the Davidson County Economic Development Commission, looks out over the I-85 Corridor Park in Davidson County. In The Business Journal's May 24 edition, reporter Catherine Carlock chronicles the rocky road that Davidson County officials have traveled putting together a large industrial site capable of attracting new industry and the jobs that would come ...

  • Duke aims to develop diverse scientists

    With the help of a $1.8 million grant, Duke University is launching a program to promote diversity and develop scientific talent in undergraduates and graduate students. It's an area where Duke has room for improvement. For the 2012-13 school year, the graduate school received 3,005 applications, of which 62 were from United States African-Americans. Some three-quarters were from foreign ...

  • Being Gluten-Free for School Parties in Wake County North Carolina

    As the school year comes to a close, many classrooms will have parties for students to celebrate this milestone. While the Wake County Public Schools does not have a specific policy regarding whether students can have parties, many schools have their own policies. The only rule for the school district is that all treats must be store-bought and not made from home. If your child ...

  • The loyalty behind Biogens Tysabri drug

    U.S. Food and Drug Administration-recommended two years. The drug, manufactured in Research Triangle Park by Biogen Idec (Nasdaq: BIIB), comes with a hefty risk- that of activating a lethal virus that more than half of MS patients harbor. After two years, the risk increases. But to patients such ...

  • Can Medicare Advantage program play a part in health care savings

    As health care leaders continue to look for ways to cut costs, the Medicare Advantage model might be a decent place to pull from. A recent study showed that utilization rates in some major categories, including emergency departments and ambulatory surgery or procedures, generally were 20 to 30 percent lower for patients enrolled in Medicare Advantage HMOs than for those with Medicare ...

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