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A taste of history in the Blue Ridge foothills

VIRGINIA | Jefferson's Monticello serves as the centerpiece for a delicious weekend escape near nation's captial BY KARA SPAK Staff Reporter/kspak@suntimes.com CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- It's home to Jefferson's magnificent estate...

Gateway coach Smith 'ecstatic' with latest triumph

By Jerry DiPaola, TRIBUNE-REVIEW Sunday, October 12, 2008 Gateway coach Terry Smith isn't sure why everyone is making such a big fuss about his No. 1 team's most recent victory. "Erie (McDowell) is a good football team," he...

October is for wine, too

A variety of Virginia activities include uncorking a bottle O ctober marks the 20th anniversary of Virginia Wine Month. The designation was created in 1988 to support Virginia's young wine industry and is now a major player on...

Marker to honor 'sculptor of presidents' Frank Vittor

By Marylynne Pitz, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Frank Vittor so loved the history of his adopted city and country that he sculpted it, cast it in bronze and even carved it in granite. Mr. Vittor also memorialized Honus Wagner, whose...

Abolish the vice presidency

By Bruce Ackerman Sunday, October 12, 2008 Sarah Palin is the product of a design flaw -- the unintended consequence of the Framers' decision to create the vice presidency. Teddy Roosevelt -- who replaced William McKinley upon...

GLAD: Listen to your dad—you'll be happy you did

His father had put on 50 pounds since retiring. So the writer issued a challenge: Walk together, an hour a day, for 1 month straight. He was trying to save his father's life. Turns out, he changed his own By: Davy Rothbart,...

Review: The American Future: A History by Simon Schama

Simon Schama doesn't just write history, says Raymond Seitz, he wants to star in it There's nothing like a television camera to make a historian go all giddy and coy, but in this case we have Schama Unbound. His latest book is...

Why Negative Ads Are Good for Voters

Attack ads are ubiquitous this campaign season, but they are not the threat to the electoral process that do-gooders claim. New Englanders, Advertising Age noted in an editorial last April praising negative campaign ads,...

Things Are Heating Up at America's Hot Springs

living. In fact, the Native Americans believed their Great Spirit resided in the earth's core and the hot springs were a special gift from their creator. The water from a hot spring is known to contain high levels of mineral...

Britain plans financial rescue of top 4 banks

Britain will launch its biggest retail bank rescue on Monday when the four largest - HBOS, Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds TSB and Barclays - ask for a combined $60.5 billion lifeline, the Sunday Times reported.

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