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Navy announces 2011 football recruiting class
Football coach Ken Niumatalolo released the names Navy's 2011 recruits on Thursday night as 52 prospects representing 16 states went through induction ceremonies and began plebe summer. "We are very excited about the group we have coming in this year,"...Tags: Deltona, Memphis, Lighthouse Point, Christianity, Cape Coral (Lee, Florida)
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10spot: Artscape and nine other favorites this week
1. Sum up Artscape? That’s one of the best things about it — you can’t. Especially since this is the free arts festival blowout’s 30th year (celebrating everything 1980s, which we assume you love).
And, of course, there’s...Tags: Jiffy Lube International, Inc., Lil Wayne, Movies, Aaron Paul, Timonium
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'Why did my son die in vain?'
Sun reporterStanding on the porch outside his Gwynn Oak residence, Marion Flint Sr. speaks softly and slowly about his only son, his namesake, who was killed in a roadside explosion while serving in Iraq. But inside, Flint is angry. That his 29-year-old son,...Tags: Defense, Health and Safety at School, Death, Armed Conflicts, Family
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Police provide sketch of truck
Sun StaffPolice yesterday released composite images of a white box truck with weathered paint and a roll-up rear door - one of two vehicles linked by eyewitness accounts to the elusive Washington-area sniper believed responsible for eight killings. Montgomery...Tags: Murder, Hospitals and Clinics, Raul Lopez, Silver Spring (Montgomery, Maryland), Labor Legislation
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R.E.M. breaks up, leaves behind career that balanced hits, integrity
R.E.M. broke up Wednesday, with an exit nearly as modest as its entrance.
You couldn’t get much more humble than touring America in a beat-up van out of the decidedly un-hip environs of Athens, Ga., in 1980. And when the band went out this week, it...Tags: MTV (tv network), Michael Stipe, Photography and Video, Pearl Jam (music group), Radiohead (music group)
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R.E.M. calls it quits
After more than three decades as a band, R.E.M. is breaking up.
In a terse announcement Wednesday at the band’s official Web site, remhq.com, the trio of Michael Stipe, Peter Buck and Mike Mills said they “have decided to call it a day as a...Tags: Fine Arts, Arts, File Sharing, Athens (Greece)
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Perennial favorites
If you've grown "Margarita," the chartreuse-leaved sweet potato vine, or the Sunlover coleus series, you can thank Allan Armitage, professor at the University of Georgia at Athens for introducing them to the garden trade.
Armitage is the author of...Tags: Gardening, Hobbies, University of Georgia, Athens (Greece)
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Remembering R.E.M. (1980-2011)
R.E.M. announced Wednesday that it is calling it quits. The Athens, Ga., band that pioneered a distinctive, arty college-rock sound was a group that meant a lot to many people.
Myself included.
The group was the first rock band I felt was truly my own....Tags: Chicago Hotels, Billy Squier, Jimmy Buffett, Hampton Coliseum
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Anniversary - the McCormicks
Joe and Nita McCormick of Falling Waters, W.Va., celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary by vacationing in the Great Smokey Mountains with their family. While in Tennessee, the family surprised them with gifts, a steak dinner and an anniversary cake....Tags: Weddings
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Fancy word, simple advice
Here we are at Tolla's, a Winter Park Italian restaurant I've never been to. I'm having shrimp aioli, very tasty although I have to Google "aioli" when I get home. We all agree the bread is excellent and the Caesar salad, too. (Aioli is a garlic sauce....Tags: Aioli, Caesar Salads, Foods and Beverages, England, Google Inc.
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Senate approves bill to end partial FAA shutdown; Obama signs
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate approved legislation Friday ending a two-week partial shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration, clearing the way for thousands of employees to return to work and hundreds of airport construction projects to resume....Tags: Employees, Labor Legislation, Harry Reid, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Barack Obama
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