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          <title>Food banks busy as more in area struggle</title>
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Ich habe hunger, jag &#228;r hungrig, or, dude, I&#8217;m starving. No matter how you say it, going hungry stinks like a Limburger-smelt-liverwurst pizza.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Wait a minute, what about Thanksgiving?</title>
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It&#8217;s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, and that ticks me off.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Foundation tries to spread joy after loss</title>
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Mr. Raymond is the parenting force behind the Carson Raymond Foundation           ]]></description>
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          <title>Search for Morgan won&#8217;t take &#8216;anything for granted&#8217;</title>
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At 9 a.m. Sunday &#8212; just as they did Friday and Saturday &#8212; volunteers 18 and older with photo ID and comfortable clothes searched for Morgan Dana Harrington.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Habitat hones woman do&#45;it&#45;yourselfers</title>
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If sharpened steel blades whirling at high speed make you queasy or the thought of 120 volts of household current running through your veins makes you swoon, you might want to make a quick visit this morning to Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville.
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          <title>Some thoughts on the missing from the psychic realm</title>
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On television, the cops are good looking and the psychics are not only believed but their opinions actively sought.           ]]></description>
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          <title>PREP looks back at 35 years of &#8216;significant impact&#8217;</title>
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Mandated by law, planned by intergovernmental committee and implemented with the goal of helping troubled learners and learners with trouble, the Piedmont Regional Education Program &#8212; PREP &#8212; has gone from 26 preschoolers in 1975 to 920 students in kindergarten through 12th grade.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:01:40 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Dot&#45;com minds share their Web wisdom</title>
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When the economy gets weird, the weird turn pro and the truly weird flock straight to the Internet.           ]]></description>
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          <title>When safe driving literally pays off</title>
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As the Good Neigh Bear danced, State Farm Insurance agent Gary Albert made the dangerous move of reaching into the car of a teen driver.           ]]></description>
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          <title>For terminal cancer patient, a selfless mission</title>
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With a few months to live, Pam Lamb wants to raise as much money for cancer research as she can.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Dead ready to rise up, Spirit Walk again</title>
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In Maplewood Cemetery, where town skeletons lie buried, the ethereal shall become corporeal and stories long forgotten will again be told.
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          <title>Couple makes trip of charity to Haiti</title>
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Where Janet and Eben Morrow are going, there are no quaint downtown cafes peddling grande lattes with steamed foam and lemon poppy seed muffins.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Barber gets his own space &#8212; again</title>
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With furloughs, layoffs and pay freezes hanging over consumers&#8217; heads like Damoclean swords, some business people may be more inclined to fall back than to spring ahead.           ]]></description>
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          <title>For overlooked abuse victims, helping hands</title>
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When everything you do is wrong, something isn&#8217;t right; when the fist comes down again, and it&#8217;s all your fault, something is wrong.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Teen discovers &#8216;it&#8217;s amazing&#8217; what dogs can do</title>
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A dog may be a man&#8217;s best friend, but a dog&#8217;s best friend may very well be that man&#8217;s kid.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:01:16 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Bizarre musical genres lurking all along</title>
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Music can lift the human soul, send the psyche on flights of fancy and plunge the mind into pathos, bathos and disturbing ethos.
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          <pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:01:47 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Come for the gemusewurst, stay for the health benefits</title>
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The Charlottesville Vegetarian Festival cranks up at 11 this morning in Lee Park and features food, fun and games, a pet adoption fair and real musicians playing real music.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:01:04 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Airport doesn&#8217;t miss a beat on parking tickets</title>
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See that sign right there, the one that says &#8220;unattended vehicles will be ticketed&#8221;?           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:01:39 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>First Amendment still alive behind bars</title>
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When the gavel comes down and you take that ride to the big house up the river, you leave a lot of things behind but not your basic constitutional rights.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:01:23 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Because joblessness is no joke, lend a hand</title>
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Although local unemployment numbers are lower &#8212; 5.9 percent &#8212; the effects of a beaten-down economy are obvious.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:01:21 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Church opens its doors to leather&#45;clad bikers</title>
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Live to ride and ride to church may not be the traditional biker axiom, but if Orange&#8217;s Trinity United Methodist Church has its way, it may soon be.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:01:21 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Albemarle rapper ready to represent in battle</title>
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T-G&#8217;sus has been putting down rhymes for some time.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:01:41 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Grand human race defies fox threat</title>
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An angry gray fox that allegedly leaped at the studious students, attacking two, stealing a sweater and sending hundreds of Cavaliers scurrying for safety through the briars and the brambles where a rabbit wouldn&#8217;t go has been captured.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Preparing for marathon after his 70th</title>
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&#8220;Some time ago, I decided that when I turned 70 I&#8217;d run a marathon,&#8221; Mr. Eros says           ]]></description>
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          <title>Drunken driving could cost you more than cash</title>
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You don&#8217;t have to go gently after that great goodnight, but you darn sure better not go drunk.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Local packs want you as part of the Cub</title>
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Scouting is one of those things that many boys pass through as they move on to being bigger boys.           ]]></description>
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Guys function &#8212; barely, mind you &#8212; in the now. Men consider the present and the future.           ]]></description>
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          <title>&#8216;Selective&#8217; U.S. 29 trap irks Bedford man</title>
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The numbing reality of bill paying and government regulation, from taxes to traffic tickets, can make you feel like a rat running on a wheel in a cage.           ]]></description>
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When the father has his head in the clouds, you can pretty much expect the son to not want to keep his feet on the ground.
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          <title>At this job, it&#8217;s all work with plenty of play</title>
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Mildred Spicer has a ball at work.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:01:11 EST</pubDate>
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Mr. Lee and his wife, Kelly, opened the shop, named after their son, Chandler, 12 years ago.           ]]></description>
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I wait at the intersection of Rio Road and U.S. 29 and watch.           ]]></description>
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It&#8217;s most likely a simple problem, easy enough for a backyard mechanic to fix, providing he has a modicum of intellect and some common tools. At least that&#8217;s how the Internet made it sound.
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I learned a lot about our community by watching lawyers pepper possible jurors with questions.
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Mary Fisher Beverley is true to her word, even after death.           ]]></description>
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Blazing bursts of black and white have blinded me to the shades of journalistic gray through which I long have viewed the world&#8217;s armed conflicts. I can see clearly now, the haze is gone, all neutrality has disappeared.
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On the whole, Mason Thomas would rather play the outfield, ride a four-wheeler or sweat through a fourth-grade math class.           ]]></description>
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Pernetha Gilbert is tough.           ]]></description>
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It&#8217;s high noon and nigh unto two dozen duffers hump clubs on the endangered McIntire Park Golf Course with non-manicured, stump-studded fairways and sand-trap greens.           ]]></description>
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The youngest of the two women I call &#8220;daughter&#8221; is graduating from Charlottesville High School and all I&#8217;ve got are these wonderful memories.           ]]></description>
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Holding 50 jobs in 50 states in 50 weeks is not the best way to build a resume, but it will give you a lifetime of experience with rejection.           ]]></description>
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An area grammarian recently cornered me in a hallway and accused me of being comatose, an accusation she based on my horrendous abuse of the comma.
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After years of being lumped in with that aging lot of social reformers and community organizers known as Baby Boomers, we who came of age in the 1970s are finally getting our proper dues.           ]]></description>
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A mother is always proud of her kids, especially when they&#8217;re good and smart and prove it by graduating from high school.           ]]></description>
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Most hospitals will check an infant at birth, but a variety of factors from drugs to disease can cause kids to lose their hearing.           ]]></description>
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The beagle blasts out the backdoor like hell&#8217;s own hound, howling in anger as a neighbor&#8217;s cat springs in a fuzzy blur out of the yard and over the fence.           ]]></description>
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Bargain hunters rejoice, for our little garage sale of a city is about to get a rummage infusion from University of Virginia students and the household goods they&#8217;d otherwise leave behind.           ]]></description>
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The front yard signs long ago faded and fell and &#8220;support our troops&#8221; is a slogan seldom sung.           ]]></description>
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It&#8217;s the kind of gift even Anna Jarvis could love.
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Locked in a room with limited social and less physical contact with other people, the person is basically left to heal on his own.           ]]></description>
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For years, the tombstone outside Weldon Showalter&#8217;s Park Street home bid rest in peace to the Meadowcreek Parkway.
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Forget lighting candles. If everyone gave $400 a year, what a bright community this would be.           ]]></description>
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For the needy, the thrifty, the charities and the ladies who volunteer within, The Green Olive Tree is magic.           ]]></description>
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They chatted on a fan site, met on the way to a West Coast concert, talked on the phone, visited and, after a cross-country move, came together.
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The boisterous sea of liberty, Thomas Jefferson said, is never without a wave, and a group of residents plans to stir the waters even more.           ]]></description>
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The bunnies are here, the bunnies are there, the bunnies are all around.           ]]></description>
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When Jeannie walked down the street, no one knew she was addicted to painkillers.           ]]></description>
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No matter what the kids may tell you, they don&#8217;t know it all.
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A big, white ball of fur named Gilly barks in menacing bursts, putting visiting strangers on notice that he&#8217;s protecting Marsha Stratton from danger.           ]]></description>
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Are you lost in the ozone?           ]]></description>
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Albemarle High School senior Joyce Zhang didn&#8217;t get her first or second choices when applying for college admission, but she nailed No. 3: Yale.           ]]></description>
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Musicians are not known for normalcy, and normality is not something of which musician Greg Allen is often accused.
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Dear Gov. Timothy M. Kaine: Howdy, guv, what&#8217;s up? How&#8217;s the wife? Still raising the little Kaines?
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Fords to the left of you and potholes to the right; it&#8217;s not the time to wonder what it is you should do.
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The United Way-Thomas Jefferson Area is tossing a marathon blog event &#8212; a blog-a-thon &#8212; on its Web site, inviting nonprofit agencies, givers and receivers to blog a little byte on behalf of those who tutor and mentor.           ]]></description>
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For a man nicknamed &#8220;The Joker,&#8221; Shawn Hawkins seems so serious.           ]]></description>
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Members of an Albemarle High School leadership class are learning a lot as they organize, arrange, promote and, finally, present the 5K for MACAA fundraising footrace on March 7.           ]]></description>
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The Blue Ridge Area Food Bank Network is throwing away food.           ]]></description>
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Colorful quilted fabrics &#8212; some made of material with tiny line drawings of male genitalia &#8212; are patchwork-cut and carefully stitched to depict a three-dimensional hand surrounded by little blue Viagra-shaped rectangles that spiral out from center to edge.
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A foreign force occupies their homeland, thousands of their countrymen are jailed or missing and relatives are afraid to talk in coffee shops lest undercover agents overhear them and arrest them for wrong thoughts.           ]]></description>
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If you recently wandered by The Nook and thought the help seemed to be getting younger and younger, you&#8217;d be correct.           ]]></description>
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Political parties are forever nattering and chattering amorphous, feel-good platitudes like &#8220;supporting education&#8221; and &#8220;making a difference in the lives of youth,&#8221; but tonight the Charlottesville Democratic Party is going to put a little action behind the rhetoric.           ]]></description>
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Mr. Powell goes out of his way to say thanks to soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines where he finds them.           ]]></description>
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Apparently they weren&#8217;t expecting a black man in a Confederate uniform to carry the Confederate battle flag into the Union&#8217;s capital.           ]]></description>
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Stop right there! Drop that commercially produced peanut butter cookie and back slowly away from that package of Nabs, or salmonella just might get you.           ]]></description>
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Today could have been a day of mourning, but one of Central Virginia&#8217;s foremost musical families wants it to be a celebration.           ]]></description>
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I don&#8217;t know what I did wrong, but it must have been bad.           ]]></description>
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The quick, red fox jumped off the neighbor&#8217;s porch and stood stock still, staring at the howling beagle straining at the leash.           ]]></description>
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Bridge: You can design it, build it, cross it, burn it and this week you can even play it.           ]]></description>
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Good morning and welcome to the fifth day of the New Year, as good a day as any to look at where we&#8217;ve been, where we are, where we&#8217;re going and why we&#8217;re in this hand basket.
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For 37 years, Dr. Vito Perriello spent his days working with kids and his spare time playing with kids.           ]]></description>
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Holidays, birthdays, frats, formals and Fridays &#8212; there are many reasons for drinking too much, but the Yellow Cab Co. is making sure that there are no excuses for driving drunk.           ]]></description>
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In my chair, sipping eggnog with a splash of spike and surrounded by the remnants of a merry Christmas, I watch the Christmas Ghost parade pass by.           ]]></description>
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It isn&#8217;t his fault.           ]]></description>
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Local Salvation Army leader Dan Matthews says the choir of bell ringers standing by the storefront charity pots has seen munificence replace malevolence as shoppers share what bounty they have.           ]]></description>
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All Warren Weaver wants for Christmas is a good left foot.           ]]></description>
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With single-lens reflex cameras loaded with black-and-white or color film or megapixels, the 30 Charlottesville High School students wander downtown looking for the perfect shot.           ]]></description>
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Ted Beard hadn&#8217;t seen his dog, Scupper, in about 60 years, but he never forgot the mutt that sailed with him on many ocean cruises.           ]]></description>
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There must be a bazillion excuses to toss down a toy sale this time of year, and St. Nicholas Day &#8212; that&#8217;s today for the non-Germanic among us &#8212; is as good a reason as any.           ]]></description>
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Now that Thanksgiving leftovers have made your stomach happy, Tom Powell would like to borrow your heart.           ]]></description>
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Bruce Wayne has his Batmobile, Herman Munster has &#8220;Drag-u-la,&#8221; the Monkees gig in their Pontiac GTO-based Monkeemobile and Ken Elzinga cruises in his chopped-top 1949 Mercury Coupe.           ]]></description>
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Good morning and welcome to our special holiday episode of &#8220;Guys In Danger: Guys in the Kitchen.&#8221;           ]]></description>
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Roll the words &#8220;Habitat for Humanity&#8221; around in your mind and you&#8217;ll likely see hammer-swinging volunteers sweating in the sun but not the folks working under fluorescent lights to make it all possible.
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If the jackals have hooked up your car and the wolves are howling at the door to take back your furniture and you&#8217;re still wired with the last of your cell phone minutes on a quick Home Shopping Network purchase, you may want to reconsider your relationship with money.           ]]></description>
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