Dixie Divas
Mama's star burns brighter
With Rhonda Rich
     Just when I thought that Mama's star had peaked and was beginning to fall, Reader's Digest called.
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The allure of traveling in time
Ann B. Doran
     We western North Carolinians may take for granted historic structures with which our regional landscape abounds and may think them common. But buildings can vanish without a trace like most things on this earth.
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Salad with apples kicks off any holiday meal
Apples fit easily into any holiday meal
     Vienna, Va. - It's nearly the holidays, the time of year when
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Journal of a Living Lady
By Nancy White Kelly
     Today I am not sitting in a doctor's office. I am not lying rigid in an MRI tube fighting claustrophobia. No chemotherapy is dripping through my veins. Nope.
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By Cindy Elavsky
     Q: I am totally hooked on ABC's "Dancing With the Stars," and was pleasantly surprised to see how well Mario
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The Yo-Yo Man
BY DAVID TARRANT
     With a yo-yo in each hand, Dave Bazan is looping them over his head and
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A sandwich showdown
     Did you know that Americans gobble up more than a billion sandwiches each year? That's a lot of sandwiches! The fourth Earl of Sandwich, John Montagu, invented the very first sandwich in England in 1762.
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Loss can be felt greater during holidays
     DEAR AMERICAN GIRL: Ever since my grandpa died, the holidays haven't been the same. How can I
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Bank on it
     It's a piggy bank that talks back. Insert a dollar and the interactive Teller Man might bark, "Don't make me check your pockets."Withdraw everything, and the plastic personal banker, nicknamed Les Cash, may warn, "The cupboard is bare, baby!"
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