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Lucky to grow up in the 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s
      First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes. After that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based p...
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All That's Fit to Print
Can I ride in the trunk?
Brenda Wall
      I waste a lot of time watching the news crawl across the bottom of the television screen. Usually, I catch the last three words of an item that sounds intriguing. Then I have to sit and watch the crawl until it cycles back around. Last night, "didn't have room in the car" caught my attention.
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Mumbles
Thinking back to the 50s
Billy Fleming
      The picture on this week's front page reminded me of a great movie line... "It's hotter than a rattlesnake's (butt) in a wagon rut.
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Alex McRae
Malformed fish due to drug-flushing
Alex McRae
      A few thousand years ago a man named Jonah washed up on a beach in the metro Holy Land and said he'd just spent three days in the belly of a big fish. The locals immediately accused him of smoking dope. Now some folks at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service say the shoe is on the other foot. Or fin,...
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Shipp's Georgia
Playing the percentages in politics
Bill Shipp
      April Fools' weekend may not be an ideal time to play the percentages on what's just around the bend in state and national politics, but here goes anyway.
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Other Voices
Fred Thompson is here and he's for real
Robert Novak
      In just three weeks, Fred Thompson has improbably transformed the contest for the Republican presidential nomination. It is not merely that he has come from nowhere to double digits in national polls. He is the talk of GOP political circles, because he is filling the conservative void in the Republ...
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From our Files
Volunteer fire department organized
News from the past
      10 YEARS AGO April 10, 1997 THE CITY Council agreed to purchase the Griffin Veterinary Clinic for use as the Blakely Animal Shelter. MISS EARLY County Forestry Queens were crowned Saturday night at Mangham Auditorium. Queens are: princess, Beth Arnold; Little Miss, Abby Brown; Senior Miss, Nic...
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