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By Jerry Allegood, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. Mar. 17--GREENVILLE -- No one envisioned a sprawling medical center in Greenville when East Carolina University began its quest for a medical school 40 years ago.

By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. Oct. 23--Dental care in too many rural areas isn't substandard; it's non-existent. That's a stubborn fact of Tar Heel life which has defied the efforts of state leaders to change it.

By Jean P. Fisher, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. Oct. 18--East Carolina University wants to establish a dental school in Greenville to ease the state's chronic shortage of dentists in rural and under-served areas, but more North Carolina dentists are against the new school than for it.

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Sept. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- The North Carolina Biotechnology Center will establish two new regional offices in Greenville and Wilmington to help develop biotechnology throughout Eastern North Carolina. The Southeastern Office in Wilmington will be dedicated on Monday, Oct.