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World’s ending-again!Last week my students told me about the Mayan prophecy that predicts that the world will end in 2012.
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Plant Diseases Retaliate!In my last column, the article discussed how plants defended themselves from disease and insects.
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He will be missed
In life, there are people that have a way of touching your heart. Mr. James Googe was one of those people in my life.
In life, there are people that have a way of touching your heart. Mr. James Googe was one of those people in my life.
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From Jacksonville to Fairbanks - Part 2(Author’s note: in the previous chapter, I wrote that we flew over the eastern end of Lake Erie as we approached Detroit. In fact, it was the western end of Lake Erie.)
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The other day I was out seein’ to our greens patch, gettin’ shut of a weed here and there.
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When people get sick, they either change the environment that is making them ill or take medication to ward off any pathogens.
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Let’s have a little fun this week. Shall we?
I’ve always been amazed at how the human mind works (especially my mind).
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“Mom, we have major babysitting problems next week,” Calvin told me on the phone.
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B. J. and I were up early at our cozy nook near the Jacksonville International Airport.
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Last Wednesday I had the opportunity to travel to Odum to visit Poppell Farms Pumpkin Patch with Pre-K students from Altamaha Elementary and Fourth District Elementary. Jacob, my four-year-old son,...
national news
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Moderate Senate Democrats threatened Sunday to scuttle health-care legislation if their demands aren't met, while more liberal members warned their party leaders not to bend....
Sun Nov 22 20:26:39 -0600 2009
HEGANG, China (AP) -- When gas levels suddenly spiked deep in the Xinxing coal mine, Wang Jiguo grabbed two co-workers and they ran for their lives. Minutes later, there was a huge bang, a torrent of hot air and the earth shuddered....
Sun Nov 22 20:21:40 -0600 2009
NEW YORK (AP) -- The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said Sunday....
Sun Nov 22 20:33:36 -0600 2009
MIDDLETOWN, Pa. (AP) -- The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission says the small amount of radiation detected at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant is not significant....
Sun Nov 22 20:14:19 -0600 2009