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120-foot community eyesore dismantled piece by piece
CNHI News Service JOPLIN, Mo. - Ever wonder how they dismantle a water tower? Piece by piece with cutting torches, starting from the top down. BBQ My Way: Time to 'Mop' for added flavor
By Dave Lobeck Today's column is based on a reader's question. He is new to BBQ and wanted to know some of my favorite “mopping recipes.” I
100 Civil War flags at risk as war's sesquicentennial nearsCNHI News Service INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - More than 100 Civil War flags rest in a musty museum basement here, engaged in a battle against time and inattention. The flags, many of them stained with the blood of Indiana regiments, are deteriorating from decaying fabric and lack of adequate funds to restore them. "Every one of these flags has its own sacred story," said Brig. Gen. J. Steward Goodwin, executive director of the Indiana War Memorials Museum. "Every day we come to work to do something to preserve and protect those stories." Twitter a challenge to memorable presidential phrasesBy Chip Minemyer What was the most memorable statement by President Obama in his address to the nation last week? Surely something stayed with you; a snippet of wisdom, a skillful or inspiring turn of phrase. Perhaps this utterance struck a memorable chord: “Every American who serves joins an unbroken line of heroes that stretches from Lexington to Gettysburg; from Iwo Jima to Inchon; from Khe Sanh to Kandahar – Americans who have fought to see that the lives of our children are better than our own.”
Government proclamations won't stop bullyingBy Taylor Armerding School is in, and bullying is out. How do we know? The Massachusetts Legislature tells us so: "The governor shall annually issue a proclamation setting apart the fourth Wednesday in January as No Name Calling Day ..." A lame joke, you think? I wish. I'd like to hear such a proclamation read at halftime of a Celtic-Lakers game, after everybody has had a few beers. But it's not. This is straight from the Massachusetts Statehouse website. It is essentially the opening line of the new, anti-bullying law that is blanketing the state's schools.
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