Not so far apart from the great athletes
Pokin' Fun
'Doc' Blakely
      Tiger Woods and I are a lot alike. We both own expensive clubs. Mine are Ping, his are the kind where they have a restaurant, bar and 18 holes. At the Shell Open recently poor old Tiger could only muster a 5 under par and came in second to a South African named Immelman who played a pitiful last ...
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      Donors needed Letter to the Editor: We learned this week that neither my aunt (my dad, Dwight Holub's only sibling), a cousin, my brother, nor myself were a "match" for my dad in the search for a stem cell transplant. Thus, we will remain hopeful that the National Marrow/Stem Cell Donor Regist...
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This Mother's Day, recall the time our moms 'wasted on their roses'
A heritage and a hope
Peter Johnston
      Two lessons from a rather small book and some thoughts on some very important persons as we approach Mother's Day in a little over a week. Perhaps you can bear with me as we explore whether there could be a connection. For some reason last night I began thinking about a very little book I read s...
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World hunger being overlooked in current presidential contest
Part of Our World
Dan Rather
      The ability of relatively fewer farmers and acres of farmland to feed ever-greater multitudes has been one of the wonders of the modern era, a development that has held out the promise of not only alleviating but actually banishing hunger.
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Expanding American exports could offset declining domestic consumption
      President Ronald Reagan once observed, "The way to prosperity for all nations is rejecting protectionist legislation and promoting fair and free competition." Last week, the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives indefinitely blocked a vote on the pending Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA...
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