The writer John Grisham gave many words of advice to students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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The study was done at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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He played basketball at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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In looking at election data from 1992, 2000 and 2002, political scientists Marc Hetherington of Vanderbilt University and Jonathan Weiler of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found that places where spanking is more likely to be used to discipline children tend to lean Republican.

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But in a paper published this month in the American Journal of Public Health, Denise Kandel of Columbia University and Richard Udry of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill show that subjecting daughters, at least, to nicotine in the womb may not actually encourage them to become addicted to smoking at all.

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What may unify and solve these puzzles is a theory that was first proposed in 1993 by Robert Duncan of the University of Texas at Austin, and Christopher Thompson of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, to explain the then newly discovered gamma-ray repeaters.

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