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Picture in the wallet
Bob sighed at the question he had heard so many times. “Bob, who is your girlfriend?” Bob was handsome and athletic. He was a top notch football player and a varsity wrestler. It just seemed quite obvious he would have a girlfriend. But he just …
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Cancer event set
Sometimes people wonder why we Relay all night long and stay overnight. The Relay for Life event symbolizes the journey of a cancer survivor. Relay For Life starts at dusk and ends the next morning. The light and darkness of the day and night parallel …
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‘Prince’ is MIA
Donetta Sterling “Say Anything” I was taught, perhaps inadvertently, to rely on a man to take care of me. Now before everyone gets upset and calls me a “man hater” — let me explain. Perhaps it was my generation or just my family, but I …
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Remembering significance of D-Day
At 0227 hours on the morning of June 6, 1944, Lt. Robert Mathias saw the red light flash above the door of his C47 “Dakota” aircraft, signaling his men to get ready to parachute into a terrifying blackness that was streaked with machine-gun tracers and …
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How Texas education tops talking pineapples
A recent question on a standardized test in New York State seemed to set the bar for stupidity in education reform. Schoolchildren were asked to imagine a race between a talking pineapple and a rabbit, and were asked why the spectators ate the pineapple and …
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Trips with the grandparents
Angelia Roberts “In Black and White” Every time I see an old car that looks like one my grandparents drove or see the Mountain Grove, Mo., sign I smile. From an early age I would load up with the grandparents and we would head out …
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The only label that counts
The U.S. Census Bureau recently reported that minority births in America have eclipsed those of whites of European ancestry. Boy, have the media been in a tizzy over that one. As it goes, nonwhite minorities (Asian, Latino, black or mixed race) accounted for 50.4 percent …
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Confederate Gen. Hindman’s first order
One hundred fifty years ago, the minutia of the Confederate experience in Arkansas began a long and arduous journey through the annals of history. Union Gen. Sam Curtis had been steadily advancing through Arkansas following the White River; the back door to Little Rock was …
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Director should be fired
In testimony to the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday, Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan denied that the April 12 incident in Cartagena, Colombia, indicated deeper cultural or systemic problems with sex and alcohol in his agency. Sullivan said that no security breach resulted from …
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Homeless policy makes things worse
During a recent trip to Chicago, I couldn’t help but notice the large number of homeless people in the downtown area, including one homeless man pushing a child in a stroller. Homelessness was frequently discussed during the 1980s, but seems to receive less media attention …
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James Black
Craig Ogilvie “… the rest is history!” James Black was born in New Jersey in 1800, and became a runaway at age 8. In Philadelphia, he became a silversmith’s apprentice until he turned 18. Drifting west, Black lived briefly in Louisiana before settling at Washington, …
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Love for car gives wrong turn
Lacy Mitchell “Retro Active” “They’re only admiring my pretty car,” I told Luke as we headed down the highway toward Texas. Surely that was why the cars were passing us on the two-lane stretch of road past Hot Springs, looking at us as their vehicles …
