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Meetings to examine wood as energy source
Wood's potential as an alternative energy source will be addressed at two public meetings scheduled in September. The meetings are sponsored by the Virginia Tech College of Natural Resources, Virginia Cooperative Extension and several partners....Tags: Virginia, Bedford (Bedford, Virginia), Virginia Tech, Forests, Colleges and Universities
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Monroe R. Saunders Sr.
Sun reporterBishop Monroe Randolph Saunders Sr., who was founder and senior pastor of the First United Church of Jesus Christ Apostolic, now Transformation Church of Jesus Christ, died Friday of cancer at his Ashburton home. He was 89. Mr. Saunders, the son of...Tags: First United Corporation, Death and Dying, Virginia, Ellicott City, Religious Leaders
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Warped Tour bands keep up the intensity in Miami
Sun-Sentinel.comFor 14 summers the Warped Tour has brought bands to South Florida, and for the last three, Maria Carlton and Sue Askey of Jupiter have brought their kids to see the bands. "It's a tradition," Askey said. And true to form, the kids were nowhere in sight....Tags: Music, North Carolina, Virginia, Metal and Mineral, Boca Raton
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Community events
Classes Suffolk Chapter, American Red Cross, 157 N. Main St., Suffolk. Details: 539-6645. •Standard First Aid w/Infant, Child, Adult CPR/AED 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m. July 26. Summer Art Days, 10-11:30 a.m. (ages 5-8); 1-3 p.m. (ages 9-14), Suffolk Museum, 118...Tags: Clubs and Associations, Baptist, Virginia, Religious Leaders, David Hockney
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Tuskegee Airman inspired youngsters to take up flying
Special to the Chicago TribuneWhen George A. Taylor first left his hometown of Middlesex, Va., and enlisted in the Army Air Forces to join the Tuskegee Airmen, he did not tell his neighbors and friends of his plans. "He never told any of them because so many of the blacks were washed...Tags: Curtiss-Wright Corporation, Death and Dying, Virginia, Engineering, Armed Forces
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Times critics on Anthony Minghella's movies
Times film critics on a few of Anthony Minghella's most memorable movies:
"The English Patient"
(Nov. 15, 1996)
"Love in the extremes of wartime. Love in a dangerous, unstable universe where questions of nationality and betrayal predominate. Love that...Tags: Virginia, Michael Ondaatje, Juliette Binoche, Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Minghella
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School Day: So Much Has Changed
247-4537Margaret Brown Smith's 1930 application for a teaching job in Hampton asked if she had any deformities (she didn't), if she was raised in the country or a city (country), if she was married (she wasn't), if she used tobacco (she didn't), if she had...Tags: North Carolina, Virginia, Middle Schools, Charlottesville (Charlottesville, Virginia), Albemarle County
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Exercise may be just what she needs
Does having a relatively rapid resting pulse rate (say 90 beats or so per minute) make aerobic exercise more stressful on the heart and respiratory system than having a slower resting pulse rate?
CAT
St. Petersburg, Fla.
In most cases, a high resting...Tags: Los Angeles, Medicaid, Illnesses, Government Health Care, Western Medicines
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Tavis Smiley to be part of Jamestown 2007
757-223-5682Television and radio host Tavis Smiley will take part in one of the Jamestown 2007 commemoration's main events, organizers said Monday. He will bring his annual State of the Black Union symposium to Virginia on Feb. 9-10, 2007, as part of the 400th...Tags: National or Ethnic Minorities, Virginia, Norfolk (Norfolk, Virginia), Colleges and Universities, Richmond (Richmond, Virginia)
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"College Hill" Season Three Filmed in Virginia
By Dorrie Williams-Wheeler 7 Cities/Thabiz.com The third season of the popular BET college reality series "College Hill" premieres on March 2nd at 9PM. Previous seasons of the show were filmed in the Midwest and the far South. This is the first time that...Tags: Virginia, Bedford (Bedford, Virginia), Colleges and Universities, Hampton Roads
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'Cold Mountain'
Times Staff WriterThe Civil War epic "Cold Mountain" opens with a stunning vision of hell. It's 1864, Petersburg, Virginia, and Union soldiers have tunneled into the ground to lay explosives beneath Confederate lines. When the charges ignite, it's as if the very Earth were...Tags: Natalie Portman, Sex, North Carolina, Virginia, Movies
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