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Durham,
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Durham,
North Carolina, is known as The City
of Medicine. Duke
University (established 1838), world
renowned for its educational standards, its
teaching hospitals and state-of-the-art
medical research, is located here. Fifty
percent of the biotech firms based in North
Carolina are located in Durham in Research
Triangle Park. Durham's business
community is integrated into the medical and
research community. The largest research
facility in the world is also one of the
largest industrial parks: Research
Triangle Park, NC, is located right in
Durham.
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- #4
medical center in the US
- #2
physical therapy in the US
- #1
in physician assistants in the US
- #2
healthiest city for women in the US
- #9
in microbiology in the US
- #5
in pharmacology/toxicology
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 According
to US News Duke
University Medical Center is among the
best Graduate Schools in the United States,
and the VA
Medical Center is listed in the top 11% of
all hospitals nationally, and has been cited
for outstanding work in Geriatric Research.
Number
3 on the Top Best Places to live and work in the
United States according to Forbes
Magazine, Durham is located 20 miles northwest
of Raleigh, the state capitol of North Carolina.
Durham's population in the 2000 census was
187,035.
North
Carolina Central University, Durham Technical
Community College, Center for Employment
Training-Reserach Triangle Park, Dudley Beauty
College, Carolina Beauty College 3, and Watts
School of Nursing are also located in Durham,
which may explain the extremely high percentage of
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Designated
as National Historic Landmarks, are the Duke
Homestead and Tobacco Factory, the Bull Durham
Tobacco Factory, and the North Carolina Mutual
Life Insurance Building. Duke University hapel is
one of the most visited sites in Durham. Historic
Landmarks include many Afro-American landmarks
such as Pear Street, (known as the black Wall
Street), North
Carolina Central University (a black
university), and no mention of heritage would be
complete without the Piedmont Blues.
Durham's
new baseball stadium (built right downtown) is
based on Baltimore's model of Camden Yards. The
Bulls, (Durham's
minor league team), named in honor of Bull
Durham Tobacco, draw 10,000 people downtown for an
average game. Durham has had its own baseball team
since 1926. Durham
Americans (Coastal Plain League) are part of
the renowned Collegiate league.
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