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Rapid Response on Fire Insurance
Posted by Staff | Jul 30, 2012 | Uncategorized
Orange Grove Fire Station #2 is open! It took four months to build and cost about $90,000. It’s a simple fire station that will restore fire insurance for hundreds of families in Orange Grove’s Fire District. Orange...
Read MoreST:TNG on the Dock of the Bay
Posted by Staff | Jul 28, 2012 | Uncategorized
Fourth Week: Fathom Events. I’d never heard of them before, but they’re a nationwide cinema-event coordinator. Monday night, they were in a bunch of Raleigh theaters celebrating the 25th Anniversary of Star Trek: The Next...
Read MoreJuly 27, 2012
Posted by Staff | Jul 27, 2012 | Sports Notebook
Party Animals
Posted by Staff | Jul 27, 2012 | Uncategorized
The Triangle, especially Chapel Hill, is considered a really smart place — where there are more PhDs per capita than any other metropolitan statistical area [still looking for the citation, but I really have heard it from...
Read MoreWho Put Deh-Shay In Deh-Shay De-Bah-Sah-Rah?
Posted by Staff | Jul 27, 2012 | Uncategorized
Even though the new Batman movie came out a week ago, this is really my first chance to talk about it (since I hadn’t yet seen it when I wrote my last column). I went to see it with a good friend of mine who, in general, loves...
Read MoreSubmitting
Posted by Staff | Jul 26, 2012 | Uncategorized
My heart slides to the bottom of my churning stomach like a walrus traveling slowly but inevitably down a ridiculously long and terrifying water slide culminating in a pit of lava. Hitting ‘submit’ on this internet...
Read MoreJuly 26, 2012
Posted by Staff | Jul 26, 2012 | Sports Notebook
Attila the Hun meets Bambi
Posted by Staff | Jul 26, 2012 | Uncategorized
Or, “Reflections on Our Cross-Country Family Vacation” We are now home from the all-American road trip with a renewed appreciation for the United States. We went through 24 states, nearly half of this glorious...
Read MoreBody Composition
Posted by Staff | Jul 26, 2012 | Uncategorized
At its most basic level, body composition refers to the amount of fat, muscle and bone mass that make up your total body weight. Measuring body composition can range from the very simple, like the standard Body Mass Index (BMI)...
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