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THIS is a very cool link
Check out this cool link. It’s not live, but it’s close to it. Updated every hour, I think. Don’t see the city you want info about? Just click in the general vicinity – of Augusta, for example – and you’ll get what you’re looking for. Or just hold your mouse over any spot. It’s a cut and pastie, not a …
Playing with food
Those are plums, right?
Hot off the press…
This is one hot issue indeed. There’s the article about the murder of a nurse one snowy night in St. Louis long ago – but it has an Augusta connection. There’s the tremendously insightful Blog Spot on page 11: “Cigarettes Should Cost $25 a pack.” We’re going to agree on that. There’s the pointed observations about the GHSU name change …
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Medical Examiner columnist Helen Blocker-Adams was today awarded a grant from GHSU’s Institute of Public and Preventive Health. Excerpts from a GHSU press release: The Institute of Public and Preventive Health at Georgia Health Sciences University today awarded community-based research grants totaling $330,000 through its Community Health Partnership Grants Program. The grants pair recipients from the Augusta region with GHSU …
QUOTE OF THE DAY
” I like rice. Rice is great when you’re hungry and you want 2,000 of something.” – Mitch Hedberg
A PSA Gallery
These are part of a series of Public Service Announcements in Britain to protect children from second-hand smoke.
Control yourself
These are true words of wisdom displayed below. All too often we let others dictate our conduct. We’re nice to those nice to us, but let someone cut us off in traffic and we’ll retaliate with road rage and nasty hand gestures. Someone is rude to us, so we respond with rudeness. Sarcasm is answered with sarcasm. Meanness begets more …
This is real???
If I had known the debates were like this I might have watched one. Oh well. Too late now.
FEDERAL JUDGE RULES TOBACCO COMPANIES DELIBERATELY DECEIVED
A federal judge today ordered tobacco companies to publish corrective statements that say they lied about the dangers of smoking and disclose smoking’s health effects, including the death on average of 1,200 people a day. U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler previously had said she wanted the industry to pay for corrective statements in various types of advertisements. But Tuesday’s ruling …