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A 2,000-year-old Roman statue gets a new arm and a closer look

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By Emily Putnam Verified
| WFAE-FM (Charlotte, NC) Verified
Stand in front of the Bacchus statue for long enough, and he appears on the verge of speech. Though he never quite achieves it, curator Caroline Rocheleau doesn’t point at Bacchus as though he is an inanimate object. Rocheleau has looked after the statue through his most recent conservation undertaking at the North Carolina Museum of Art, a project that took seven-years.
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A former missile plant is getting its toxic waste cleaned up. Thousands of other sites aren’t so lucky Original

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By Emily Putnam Verified
| WUNC-FM (Chapel Hill, NC) Verified
Rows of low-lying brick buildings and corrugated tin bungalows crowd a 32-acre property in east Burlington. Photos from the 1990s reveal a silver water tower and pristine pipes glowing white in the sun. Now, these structures are rust-red. This is the former Tarheel Army Missile Plant, or TAMP. A vestigial organ of Cold War-era military manufacturing, it has changed hands several times since the Department of Defense auctioned it off to a private buyer in the early 2000s.
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'Constructing a tree museum': NC program rehabilitates man-made lakes with the help of volunteers

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By Emily Putnam Verified
| WUNC-FM (Chapel Hill, NC) Verified
On a pontoon boat on Oak Hollow Lake in Guilford County, Daniel Morrill gently removed a leech from his leg. He and a few volunteers had just slipped out of waist-deep murky water, shedding sturdy gloves and wringing out their shirts. Morrill is a fisheries biologist with the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission. He was planting spatterdock, a leafy, half-submerged aquatic plant. Volunteers remove a few plants from a patch of water willow for transplant elsewhere on the lake.
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