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The Slice archive for Aug. 23, 2013

FRIDAY, AUG. 23, 2013

Seeing October 1975 from 37th Avenue

I ride my bike by the new Jefferson Elementary School every weekday afternoon. Today something caught my eye as I surveyed the new ball field just east of the almost-finished South Hill school. Emerging like sailboat masts from the two ends of the outfield fence…

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Zero football-game attendance

Recently overheard a conversation between a guy who is a huge college football fan and a young woman who recently finished college. Can't recall what he said to prompt her. But she volunteered that she had never attended a football game while in school. He…

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Which would you buy?

If it was just a matter of a day or two, would you purchase milk with a sell-by date that is the same as your birthday, your spouse's birthday, your anniversary or Christmas or would you buy the milk with the freshness date furthest into…

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Morning exercise

If you did a search on the name of your elementary school, what results come back? Don't include the name of your town. Just use the school name. And if you attended more than one elementary school just use the one you attended longest. For…

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"How To Toughen Our Flabby Youth"

Can't track down a copy of that promoed article, so I'll just assume the prescription called for cutting back children's TV time to four hours a day. Either that or sending them to Vietnam. Or perhaps the author was forward-looking and suggested that, for future…

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