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School news
Achievements •William Schaffner Bennett, of Gloucester, has been selected by the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, for Honors Admission for the fall of 2008. William is the son of Stephen Bennett and Linda Schaffner of Gloucester, and is...Tags: Bedford (Bedford, Virginia), The Fall, Fredericksburg (Fredericksburg, Virginia), Colleges and Universities, John Tyler
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17-year-old Arrested In MTA Bus Taggings
KTLA NewsLOS ANGELES -- A 17-year-old accused tagger was arrested Wednesday at Fairfax High School on suspicion of prolific graffiti vandalism aboard MTA buses and trains and at stations across the region. The teen, whose real name was withheld because he is a...Tags: Teen-agers, Melrose, People
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July 24: Feedback from newspaper readers
• In Tuesday's Nation & World section, the map with the article about truckers being unfit for medical-related violations shows Williamsburg has the highest rate of such violations in the entire country, at 40 percent. But there is no mention in the...Tags: Williamsburg, Bedford (Bedford, Virginia), Timothy M. Kaine, Jim Webb, West Point
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Free-market baby making
Thirty years ago Friday, Louise Brown came into the world amid alarmist predictions that her birth would end sex. Jeremiahs such as writer Jeremy Rifkin wailed that in-vitro ("under glass") fertilization would harm the future Louise. Bioethicist Leon Kass...Tags: Ethics, Values, Genetics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health and Safety at School
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Fruity fare at two film festivals
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIN HER famous essay "Notes on 'Camp,' " Susan Sontag lists films she considered to be aligned with the schlocky sensibility she described as a "love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration." Ernest Schoedsack's 1933 "King Kong" and "The Maltese...Tags: Carroll Baker, Susan Sontag, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Zsa Zsa Gabor, Gordon Douglas
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McCain Credits Bush for Drop in Oil Price
Associated PressWILKES-BARRE, Pa. -- Republican John McCain on Wednesday credited the recent $10-a-barrel drop in the price of oil to President Bush's lifting of a presidential ban on offshore drilling, an action he has been advocating in his presidential campaign....Tags: Elections, Phil McGraw, Employment Opportunities, Political Candidates, George Bush
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Pope meets clergy sex abuse victims in Australia
The Associated PressPope Benedict XVI ended his visit to Australia today by meeting with victims of sexual abuse inflicted by Roman Catholic clergy -- an issue that has scandalized the church at a time when the Vatican concedes it is struggling to draw people to its fold....Tags: Public Relations, Pope, Demonstration, Roman Catholic, Abusive Behavior
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Public hearings set for Va. rail plan
The state Department of Rail and Public Transportation is holding public hearings around Virginia to gather input on a proposed statewide rail plan. The draft plan's proposals include linking Roanoke to a statewide passenger rail network through... -
Fairfax County subsidized housing demand grows
Fairfax County housing officials say the number applications for subsidized housing has jumped by nearly 1,000 since last month. The county Department of Housing and Community Development says the waiting list for the publicly funded Section 8... -
Fairfax considers jail time for overcrowding
Fairfax County supervisors are considering criminalizing some zoning violations, meaning landlords who operate illegal boarding houses could go to jail. The proposal would turn what would normally be a civil penalty into a criminal one, if the civil...Tags: Bedford (Bedford, Virginia), Prisons, Fairfax County, Virginia General Assembly, Local Authority
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