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Smith plans to push his own term bill plan this year, which would raise the term bill for incoming first-years--members of the Class of 2005--while leaving it at $20 for current students...
Last week, in a final push, the mayor dusted off Gone With the Wind, Lastinger second-grader Stephen Sumner ripped through Tom Sawyer and aced 19 out of 20 questions, and Rotarians challenged Kiwanians to a read-off. At Lastinger, Kaitlyn Pritchard, 7, nailed the test on a book called Arthur's Eyes. The 1/2 point gave her 20 for the year, and she couldn't wait to tell her parents. "I'm going to surprise them tonight," she said...
This week or next, a Tift County man, woman or child will close a book, pass a test and push the point total over a million. Because primary schoolers have read so many 1/2-point books, the points translate to roughly 1 million books...
...idea is to take vacuum coffee brewing, a method long favored in Europe, and Americanize it--make it plug-in simple, electric and automatic. You put freshly ground coffee in the large funnel on top, insert the funnel's rubber gasket tightly into the water-filled carafe below, push ON and stand back. The water quickly heats to a perfect, sub-boiling 205[degrees]F and gets sucked up into the vacuum created in the funnel, where it briefly mixes with the grounds before cascading back down into the carafe. It's a riot of noise and smell. And Utopia...
...Palestinian control. I always use it as an example of how Palestinians and Israelis must live together. I rushed to the place. There were hundreds of people in the crowd. The Palestinian security commander of Jericho was standing in the middle with about 50 policemen, trying very hard to push the crowd back. I stood next to him, held my arms outstretched and began shouting at the crowd, "Don't do that, you can't!" They shouted back, "They are killing us! They are destroying us! They don't want peace! We want them out! Go home! They...