Dealing with Diabetes
Do women have heart attacks?
      Ask women how they expect to die and many imagine they'll die from breast cancer. Few would probably picture a heart attack. But for every woman who dies of breast cancer, six women die of heart disease! Beyond age 65, it kills more women than all cancers combined. Heart disease is the leading kill...
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OPINION
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From the porch
Bees are the bomb
Dwight Otwell
      Will the government soon be drafting honeybees into the military? An Associated Press story in December revealed that honeybees can be trained to detect explosives even in tiny quantities. A $1.5 million study conducted at the Los Alamos National Laboratory showed that in thousands of trials, th...
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Please respond to PACC survey
      To the Editor: I am writing to encourage all citizens who care about the future of our county to take a few minutes and fill out the survey that will come with our January BRMEMC billing.
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Thanks for your kindness
      The family of Bud Garrett would like to thank everyone for the food, flowers, phone calls, and prayers during the passing of a loved one. We would like to send a special "thank you" to the Berrongs for the beautiful singing, Rev.
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Dr. Spiva resumes practice
      To the Editor: Dr. Gene Spiva and his family wish to thank everyone for their patience and understanding during his recent emergency surgeries. With the sudden onset of events I had no time to notify my patients and had no idea of how long my stay in the hospital in Atlanta would be. I am certain...
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Clarification on compactor
      To the Editor: Please let me correct some misinformation that I supplied the paper with concerning the removal of the Bomag trash compactor at Pacesetters Adventure Center. Dexter Lee, a member of the Solid Waste Management Team, told me that he thought a new compactor costs between $300,000 and ...
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Dixie Divas
A love letter
With Rhonda Rich
      His handprints are all over my heart. He held it for years in an uneasy, complicated grasp that I could never escape. Though I tried. Lord knows I tried mightily. "You're going to marry Ronnie Calhoun one day," predicted friends and family, both mine and his, for years.
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A free press? In your dreams
With Bill O'Reilly
      Here are two entertainment predictions for 2007 that you can immediately take to the bank. First, Al Gore's global-warming documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," will win an Oscar, and second, the Dixie Chicks will win a Grammy for their latest album.
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