Category: 2008
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What’s so bad about falling housing prices?
Originally written on November 11, 2007 and, sadly, unpublished until now because it wasn't funny enough. It's still not that funny. WHAT'S SO BAD ABOUT falling housing prices? When the…
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A spare column on bowling trophies
WHEN SURVEYING THE TROPHY CASE in our home, people often say: "Tell us about your bowling trophy," frequently just after asking, "So, what's this archery trophy all about?" The archery…
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Ford Announces Water-Powered Automobile
DETROIT — The Ford Motor Company, in conjunction with Hydrolytics, Inc., announced today that they have produced, in an unprecedented engineering feat, a water-powered car that could end America's dependence…
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What it was was football redux
Last week my wife's cousin, Bobo Herring, from Traphill up in Wilkes County, visited the University of North Carolina with his eldest son. Willy Bob has been offered a Morehead…
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PETA sues McCain and Obama campaigns
RICHMOND — In a rare display of non-partisanship during this highly partisan political season, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals filed a petition today in United States District Court…
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Doughnuts prevent cancer deaths, study shows
CHAPEL HILL — A diet rich in doughnuts prevents a whole range of cancer deaths, according to a collaborative study released today by the University of North Carolina's School of…
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Lyme disease: Seriously, it doesn’t come from drinking too many gin & tonics
A WHILE BACK I went to the mountains of North Carolina and got Giardia. Later I went to Africa and got malaria. Little more than a month ago I went…
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An Olympic collection of odds ‘n’ ends
BEIJING, via satellite — As the XXIX Olympiad has drawn to close, I can now see the many lessons that I have learned from watching the dedicated and hardworking athletes…
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Great Dates in “Local Voices” Column History: The Thursday Edition
MANY COLUMNISTS, perhaps due to what some see as undue adulation that columnists receive from the reading public, become vain, self-centered, ego-centric and can only think "I, me, mine." Well,…
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Just two songs away from Galax
GALAX, Va. — No, this is not going to be one of those lame "What I Did Last Summer" essays like the ones you had to write on the first…
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