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Of all the stupid things I've done, running over myself may be tops
      When the discussion turns to all the stupid things we did when we were young, I usually win. When I was 18, I ran over myself with my own car. While I was sitting in the driver's seat. We'd just graduated from h igh school and it was the perfect warm summer night for me and my girl of the moment, Kay, to be cruising around in my yellow 1957 MGA convertible.
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Book Review
The Life of Thomas More By PETER AACKROYD
      Henry Tudor, better known as Henry VIII, the king with all those wives, has spawned historical novels, biographies, histories, movies, and TV series. One of the most interesting figures from his court and government is the subject of this biography.
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Heavy snoring men inspire creative ways to get sleep
      It is a fact that snoring is a "vibration of respiratory structures," which causes sounds that are nonrhythmic, staccato, irritating, often loud, and very definitely off ensive to anybody who is in the room with you. Heavy snoring can, the experts say, cause psychological and social damage—even bring about the risk of heart attack.
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Taxpayers are having to foot too many bills
GUEST COLUMN
      The symptoms are clear. As a medical doctor, I am prepared to diagnose the Obama administration and the majority in this Congress with an addiction to raising taxes. According to the Wall Street Journal, the Obama budget calls for more than $1.1 trillion in new taxes over the course of the next decade, including $646 billion in new taxes for their Cap and Tax scheme alone.
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