North Carolina Now; North Carolina Now Episode from 11/08/1995

It's Wednesday November 8th. There is new hope tonight with people suffering from Alzheimers in North Carolina now. Good evening everyone I'm ordering cakes Bailey Marie her tray has the night off. Well there's been a blustery day across our state today yet another sign that ball is in its full glory and of course all in North Carolina also means it's time for a college fashion show. Tonight we'll take a look at the fall colors being showcased on trees throughout the state. Plus Thanksgiving only two weeks away. Tonight we'll go to the now kitchen for a tasty holiday treat. But first there is new hope tonight for North Carolinians with Alzheimer's. At a conference earlier this week the Duke University researcher who first discovered the

Alzheimer's Jayne says he now may know how to use the gene to help prevent the disease. Dr. Allen Rosa says scientists may soon be able to use the genes characteristics to develop drugs to delay all timers for up to 20 years. That's great news for the future but for Alzheimer's patients currently living with the disease every day is a struggle. Tonight reporter Maria Lundberg examines the effect that this disease has on patients and caregivers. When you really don't know what's the date of your birth. I don't fool 4 million Americans are selected with timers disease. Most of them are elderly. No one really knows just exactly what causes also timers at the present time. There is no cure and more than 100000 people die each year from this mind robbing illness timer's is a progressive disease that attacks the

brain and impairs thinking and behavior. Memory lapses are early symptoms as the disease advances. Victims have difficulty communicating and performing familiar tasks. Eventually they are totally unable to care for themselves unlike other diseases. It isn't devastating to the individual who has it. It's to the caregiver. Person who's taking care of the family. Barbara Howland is one of 18 Million Family Caregivers of Alzheimer's patients in the United States. That's almost 10 percent of the country's adult population. Barbara is the primary caregiver for her 91 year old mother and Powell because all Simers is difficult to diagnose. It's suspected that Annie may have Alzheimer's disease until last year. Barbara got help with care for her mother from an adult day care facility. It was just like a godsend because I could take her to the day care when I went to work and pick her up on my way home from work. Babies are

dirty and restor and tucked her in and night and operator and all that. And it was just like taking care of a big child. But that changed last fall when Annie had a stroke and couldn't walk anymore after she was no longer able to get up. I had a lady come to the house who has helped me while I was working and now that I'm retired she still comes and I think if I hadn't of had no work and somebody could depend on taking care of her and I felt really good about that and now that I'm home I still have this lady who helped share it. And I honestly haven't become overwhelmed with it yet and I've just been very fortunate to have been all kinds of support in that regard. You know good friends my family. So I'm really been very very lucky. As a retired nurse from Duke Medical Center Barbara has the training to cope with

many of the daily responsibilities that fall on a caregiver. Certainly this would be a big shock in anybody's life to have to just all of a sudden learn nursin and take an hour. I can imagine that that would become very heavy for some people. And then if you have the combative behavior in the wandering and all on top of that that could get pretty pretty stressful no matter how well-prepared a caregiver is the emotional support of others is extremely important. Having some might to talk to about it. Somebody who's been there is one of your greatest assets. Just remember you have to take her of yourself as much as you have to take care of the patient because if you anything happens to you and you don't have anybody else you're going to be up the creek without a paddle to spare. But really they do have so many agencies and organizations that seek them out. That's all

I can say because that's that it's very important to keep yourself mentally healthy in spite of the demands and pressures on her. Barbara Helen cares for her mother in a loving supportive atmosphere and her attitude about the situation puts it all in perspective. We always have to remember too it might be you are in there someday. I just hope that if ever I get like that I have somebody that cares enough to take care of me. And if you'd like to learn more about Alzheimer's you can call the Duke's family support group at 1 800 6 7 2 4 2 1 3. Duke University's fuk you quit School of Business has named its new dean Rex Adams the vice president with Mobil Corp. will succeed Thomas Keller when Keller retires next year. Christina Copeland recently had a chance to talk with Mr. Adams. Mr. Round Thanks for being with us tonight. Thanks very much for having me. We hear and you

graduate so how does it feel to be coming home again. It feels very good but has been a long time since I've been back in any meaningful way. So it's in many ways both familiar and new world to rediscover. What do you want to find in that new world. Well I hope a lot of fun though a lot of challenge working with students and faculty and working with the university administration to do. It's a much bigger university than I left a much changed University. But in its core I think still very much the same place. I think it's going to be a lot of fun a lot of Chang's. We said one of the things that you're most interested in working on there is increasing in downing of the school and being able to build up the faculty. One of the ways you got to do that is by going back to some of the big corporations that you know so well. But in this time of austerity among a lot of companies is there a lot of money out there to go into that higher education. Well it's always difficult. And I think there is a misconception that corporations

are large suppliers of funds for educational institutions. There are large suppliers of funds for academic programs for endowments. By and large that's a matter of persuading individuals who want to invest because they believe in you. Believe in what it is you're trying to do and it's a mixture of support from corporations. You're quite correct to say they're being very tight and very critical and looking at the needs of educational institutions. But there are also significant friends of our university in our school who are prepared to invest money because they believe in what we're trying to do you spend most of much of your professional life working on developing corporate leaders for mobile corporation. What do you think that the business schools have to be teaching the students are going to be the corporate leaders of tomorrow. They need to be teaching them modern finance modern marketing modern operations which they do an extremely good job of doing and

the advancement of knowledge in the fields that are the principal functional areas of business has been very large and very significant. And I think business schools do an excellent job with teaching that. That over and above that what business schools do need to teach is the modern technology that people use in the conduct business. They need to teach their students how to behave collaboratively and operate within a teamwork environment as opposed to individual performers. And they need to teach them how the business disciplines integrate across the functions so that they have a sense of the coordinated whole business. I think we do that extremely well if you will. You also have a lot of experience in international business and global competitive competitiveness has become so important. Do you think that students are being prepared enough for the global marketplace. Increasingly they are but they my that we have to do a much better job of that because that is the world they're going into. The

business of business is truly global. The requirements to understand how to be effective in a global environment are very different than if you're being trained to operate in a regional business with a regional perspective and that's much more than simply differences in language and culture. There are differences in investment risk. There are differences in terms of political stability and political risk. There are differences in terms of institutional frameworks in which you have to operate. Differences in taxes are done how you finance your businesses. These are very complex matters and it simply isn't good enough for any business school to produce a so-called Master of Business Administration who has not been thoroughly school in those emerging complexities. You've also been very involved in the restructuring at mobile and I know that's that's a rough thing for a lot of workers out there right now but so many companies are going through it.

What do you think the restructuring environment is going to mean for business and the economy in the United States. Well what it means in the near term is enormous amount of pain and dislocation. It means lives disrupted. It means in many cases whole communities impacted. But in the long run what it means are more efficient businesses that are much more competitive globally that are able to replenish their capital base grow into the areas where they have a competitive advantage in order to move the process. If we didn't believe that believe me we would have a very hard doing what does we're doing in this very painful around the restructuring that all of us are going through. Whether in the oil industry the telecommunications industry transportation industry the automobile manufacturing industry wherever it is we are simply having to do this in order to secure our future and make it possible to generate economic growth in the future.

But on TALK OF THE LARGEST about you personally you were a coal miner's son in West Virginia. Yes. Went to Duke University on a football scholarship and part of the 61 cotton vaulting. Yes. And then you became a Rhodes Scholar and then your mission to become a historian got sidetracked. You tell me a little bit about that. Well I've had a rather strange life that I think I did travel rather far distance. I told the students that my memory of coming to do in the early late 50s early 60s is that probably was the dumbest poorest kid that arrived at that campus and yet there was something magical and transforming happened for me during that period. I got a magnificent education that opened my brain was opened I discovered I had a brain. And out of that came the magic of the Rhodes Scholarship in going from Oxford was really what changed my

life in that it brought me into an enormously diverse and cosmopolitan and educational opportunity and in Oxford. And it kind of took because I didn't come back to United States for the next 13 years. I ended up in the oil business and living in places like London and Istanbul in Hamburg in Tripoli in London before coming back. And now you're back here in Europe and now we're coming for you. Fortunately we are out of time. It was wonderful to have you here we wish you best of luck when you come back to Duke for good next June. Thanks for being here tonight. Thank you very much Chris. Later in tonight's show we'll learn the secret to one of the South's favorite marinates with Gretchen Lange and the now kitchen. But first Michel Louis is standing by at the now news desk with all of today's STATE NEWS. Hello Michel. Hello augury. Good evening everyone. Many areas throughout North Carolina have a new city and county officials tonight despite low voter turnout for yesterday's election.

Some highlights in the election results are the election of mayoral candidate Pat McCrory in Charlotte and the reelection of incumbents Carolyn Allen in Greensboro. Sylvia Kirk off in Durham and Hagan pits in High Point. Meanwhile all the bond measures facing voters across the state passed. Colin Powell announced today that he will not run for president. But despite his decision one out of four North Carolinians think he would make a good president. In a statewide poll conducted by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 26 percent of those interviewed said they would vote for Powell for president. The poll taken October 15th through the 19th shows Powell has equal support among Democrats and Republicans. However the retired general says he won't run at this time because he doesn't have the passion and commitment to campaign for president. Secretary of State Rufus Edmonson says he's changing the way he does business. Edmonstone announced he's giving up his state car and will limit cellular telephone use in his office. Edmonson also says all hiring for his office will now be done through a

personnel office and there will be no more political favors for his staff. The changes come as the state auditor prepares to release a report on the secretary of state's office that investigates possible misuse of state resources. State leaders are in the heart of hard country tonight trying to find a way to deal with animal and farm ways. The blue ribbon commission on agricultural waste spent today touring many hog farms in Duplin County and talking to residents about the problems they face. The commission will wrap up its tour with a public hearing tonight and Kenyans will hundreds of hog farmers are expected to attend tonight's meeting. And now for a look at tomorrow's weather. Temperatures will be similar to today with highs ranging from 40 degrees in the Boone area to 55 degrees around Wilmington. Other than a few clouds hanging around the upper mountains mostly sunny skies can be expected statewide. In business news North Carolina Business recruiters say they want to expanded tax breaks to help attract new companies to the Tarheel State. The North Carolina Economic Development Board will meet on Thursday in Hickory to adopt formal

recommendations were state economic recruiting incentives. The meeting comes while the state Supreme Court is hearing a case challenging the legality of offering economic incentives with state tax money. A magazine that covers business relocation strategies us Jozen North Carolina as the number one spot in the country for businesses wanting to relocate. Officials at plant sites and park say the selection is based on the state's workforce taxes and infrastructure. The report will appear in the magazine's November December issue. The stock market rallied to a record high today with the Dow Jones industrial average up by more than 55 points to close at forty eight fifty two point sixty seven. About 360 million shares traded hands the Standard Poor's 500 index climbed five points to a record high and the Nasdaq composite index was up four points. And now for some stocks of North Carolina interest me. Thanksgiving

is only two weeks away and that has many people looking for new recipes. Gretchen Lange takes us into the now kitchen tonight with a wonderful new recipe for a honey marinated. We have wonderful locally made honey in North Carolina. And today I want to cook with honey and talk a little bit about it because it's such an interesting food and so ancient for thousands of years honey was just about the only sweetener that people used and in fact there are stone age cave paintings in Spain showing people robbing a wild hive of bees and. The Pilgrims used to refer to tree sweetening and be sweetening meaning the choice

between maple syrup and honey as the primary sweeteners used in cooking the Bible even refers to honey as one of the basic necessities of life in there with just a few other things like fire and bread made from wheat as essential things to preserve the life of man. So a wonderful and very historical commodity. Honey and I want to talk here today about some locally produced honeys that I have here lined up and show you some of the interesting differences that can occur. Now a characteristic of honey as most folks know it's made from flower nectar and it takes on the flavors of the flowers from which it's produced so. Honey's can be very very unique both in color and in taste and you can see the color variation here on the end as a wildflower honey which tends to have a darker color and has a very deep intense flavor it's made from a variety of different wildflowers and next to it is sour with honey a very

prized tiny which is very sweet and to me has a slightly citrusy character to it as well. And you can see has a very light beautiful color to it next to it is one of the most interesting locally produced honeys this is gall Berry honey which to me has a very spicy flavor very unique from the others that I have here. And then on the end I have honey in the comb and I think this is a clover honey which is a very light colored mild and sweet honey. And when I was little I used to chew honeycomb instead of chewing gum. We would break off a piece of comb and chew it to get all the honey out. Now honey will often crystallize in the jar. Don't be alarmed. That is nothing to worry about all you have to do is immerse that jar in warm water to read dissolve those crystals that crystallization is natural. And will not harm your honey. The other thing to remember about honey is don't give it to babies or toddlers because that can be dangerous to them. But for those of us who

can eat and enjoy Honey I have a wonderful recipe today for a simple marinate to be used on poultry now I've put it on Cornish hens and you can see over here I've got my Cornish hen ready in the bowl. And what I did was to put that hand into this is a bag and then put the marinated directly in there with it. This means you can use a little less marinate and you don't have to turn the chicken as much. And what I've done is to just put in a tablespoon or two of honey per head. And then I've added some to Mari or soy sauce. About a quarter to half cup per pan the amounts are very flexible. And then back here I have my seasoning ingredients. This is star anise which you can see is a very very beautiful spice that as its name would indicate has an a. flavor. And I put in about a teaspoon of star anise pieces. Per head and then over here I have such one peppercorns which are wonderful spicy

addition that is has quite a distinct flavor from black pepper and finally some fresh ginger root which I've just cut into coin like pieces your skin on. I just dropped all that in together and allowed that to marinate overnight and down here you can see the finished result sitting by the way on a beautiful pottery plate by a wonderful North Carolina pot or care in my court and these little hands were simply roasted in a hot oven until they got a wonderful brown glaze. You can baste with the leftover marinated. You can also put chicken on the grill with this marinate and that makes a wonderful dish. And if you'd like a copy of this recipe send a self-addressed stamped envelope to recipes North Carolina now P.O. Box 1 4 9 0 0 NC 2 7 7 0 9. All

you have to do these days to see the beauty of North Carolina across North Carolina. Nice

Well that does it for us tonight.

You won't want to miss tomorrow night's edition of North Carolina now reporter Adam Hochberg will navigate us through the mysteries of the Medicare battle in Congress and show us what it means to North Carolinians. Plus we'll get a tour of one of North Carolina's favorite state parks. And we'll learn what it's like to fly through the stars when we talk with astronaut Mae Jamison. Enjoy your evening. See you tomorrow night.