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	<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>School dropout challenges</title>
		<link>http://thetandd.com/columns/?p=1363</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Howard Hill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[South Carolina gets extended press coverage on its chronic school dropout rates. Reports are that only half of the state’s ninth-graders receive diplomas. A dreadful statistic.
Rep. Tim Young Jr. of Aiken is mulling over the statistic. He is considering legislation to tie a teenager’s driver’s license to being enrolled in school until age 18 &#8230; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time to go nuts</title>
		<link>http://thetandd.com/columns/?p=1362</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Minnie Miller</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Many veteran gardeners in the spring watch the pecan trees for a sign that the last frost has passed and that it is safe to plant the garden. When the long, dangling catkins appear on the trees’ bare twigs, the killing frosts are gone, or so they say. Most years this sign holds true, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Growth is evidence of life</title>
		<link>http://thetandd.com/columns/?p=1358</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:12:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mandakini Hiremath</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Some students have a knack of seeking, even at times demanding, special attention from their professors, advisers, mentors. With their own special ways, whims, attitudes, demeanor or even, at times, by annoyance, they end up occupying a special place in their targeted audiences’ hearts.
Ms. Vanessa Thomas was one among them. However, unlike many others who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our rogue Evita</title>
		<link>http://thetandd.com/columns/?p=1356</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eugene Robinson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — No force on Earth can stop Sarah Palin from becoming our very own “lite” version of Eva Peron — a glamorous and tragic legend, minus the tragedy. Eventually, some clever composer will write a blockbuster musical about her life and times. Stage directions will include: “SARAH fires gun. MOOSE dies.”
It’s futile to try [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad connection</title>
		<link>http://thetandd.com/columns/?p=1357</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gene Crider</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s a disturbing trend among our female callers, especially the ones who sound like they may be a little &#8230; uh, older.
I hate to say old ladies are becoming rude. So let’s just say that old ladies are becoming “rhymes with dude.” And believe me, there are a lot more words I can rhyme with.
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		<title>Thankful for simple things</title>
		<link>http://thetandd.com/columns/?p=1355</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shirley Upton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanksgiving is a time for reflection and appreciation. Things could always be better, but they could also be worse. We are so blessed in this country that sometimes we let great expectations interfere with our happiness.
Although we would all be overjoyed to win the lottery, it will not happen to most of us, so it’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take a walk!</title>
		<link>http://thetandd.com/columns/?p=1353</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rush Button</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s a great time for taking walks! I took a walk this morning and was reminded why I have always been thankful that I live in the temperate zone where there are four distinct seasons. The trees were ablaze in the early morning sun, with autumn’s magnificent blend of orange, red and gold, and my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Gingerbread Man</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:29:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Teresa Hatchell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When my granddaughter spent the evening with me a few weeks ago, I told her the story of the Gingerbread Man, as was told to me by my mother years ago.
Every time we made gingerbread cookies, she told us children about the old farmer’s wife who, to her surprise, made a gingerbread man who came [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Developing a conceptual framework - Dave Brangan</title>
		<link>http://thetandd.com/columns/?p=1352</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>House Call</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are having difficulty understanding health care reform, you are not alone. When Franklin D. Roosevelt was asked why he did not include health care reform in his New Deal Programs (1933-1936) to speed economic recovery during the Great Depression, he responded: “Because I can’t explain it.” Therefore, if FDR could not explain it, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2,000 miles west of Edisto swamps, groups of 20 comb cornfields for the beautiful and tasty pheasant</title>
		<link>http://thetandd.com/columns/?p=1351</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Langford</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If a good hunt for you requires these: waking up at 5:30 a.m., shivering through a pick-up breakfast and hurrying countryside to meet your gang by six-thirty, a pheasant shoot may not be your ticket.
The place is Aberdeen, South Dakota; the time, 10 a.m. Eighteen Orangeburg-connected men have had a late, quiet sleep, then chewed [...]]]></description>
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