By Tom Rokoske, professor of physics and astronomy
BOONE—It isn’t often that two space craft are visible in the sky at the same time, but if skies are clear and free of too much light pollution, both the International Space Station (ISS) and Space Shuttle Endeavor will be visible tonight over North Carolina.
BOONE—Award-winning journalist Paul Cuadros had been a reporter for the Washington-based Center for Public Integrity when he moved to Pittsboro to write about how the migration of Latino laborers was changing small southern towns.
BOONE—Appalachian State University jumped two places to the No. 10 spot in the “Best Universities-Master’s in the South” category in U.S. News & World Report’s 2008 America’s Best Colleges Guide. The university retained its fifth-place ranking among the South’s top public master-degree granting universities.
Appalachian State University is a public university located in Boone, North Carolina and the sixth largest institution in the University of North Carolina system. Appalachian (pronounced app-uh-LATCH-un) State is sometimes referred to as AppState, ASU, or simply App. The university has been ranked among the top 15 Southern "Masters Universities" since the U.S. News and World Report's America's Best Colleges Guide began publication in 1986. In 2001, Appalachian was recognized by TIME Magazine as a College of the Year.
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