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<title><![CDATA[Just assuming]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2010/mar/10/just-assuming/news-opinion/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[You can regress logic just so far and then you inevitably encounter the need to take something for granted. Just where that assumption threshold rests has been the subject of learned disputes, feuds and bloody wars throughout history.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:08:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pearl Harbor hydrolley]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2010/feb/03/pearl-harbor-hydrolley/news-opinion/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[Saint Groundhog's Day was Tuesday and more than ever I feel a camaraderie for the little critter.  When I emerged from the warmth of my Delta bird from Honolulu, what I saw certainly made me want to go back for several weeks: more snow than we've had for years.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:52:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[To a theater near you]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2009/dec/30/theater-near-you/news-opinion/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[Like everybody else in the world, my wife and I went to see the blockbuster film, "Avatar," during the Christmas holiday.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:21:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The wrong way to Copenhagen ]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2009/dec/18/wrong-way-copenhagen/news-opinion/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[In an e-mail exchange last week, a professor in Miami pointed out to me that innovation, the most important contribution to CO2 and climate change mitigation that could have come from the CO15 Copenhagen Conference, would not even be on the agenda.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:54:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[A curious conspiracy ]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2009/dec/02/curious-conspiracy/news-opinion/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[Next to sex, conspiracy may be the most compelling ingredient a writer can stir-in to rivet readers to the page.  "Enquiring minds want to know," says the tabloid which, like the cockroach, seems destined to survive long after more advanced journalism forms have bitten the dust. Perhaps mud is more nutritious than dust.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:58:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Miss Sarah Foster: A tribute ]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2009/nov/17/miss-sarah-foster-tribute/news-opinion/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[In the simpler and more innocent times captured in American Graffiti, adolescent towns on the brink of cityhood often had a "Central High School."  Charlotte was such a town.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:09:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hastings' haunted hill]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2009/oct/23/hastings-haunted-hill/news-opinion/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[Toward the end of the 19th century, Charles Hastings, my maternal grandfather, built a house near Kernersville on rising ground. The house and land eventually became known as Hastings Hill. Charles was known within the family as Chag.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:26:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pause to reflect, then fire up the chain saw]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2009/oct/17/pause-reflect-then-fire-chain-saw/news-opinion/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[It occurred about two or three weeks ago, and it has taken me this long to get over it.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Trolley going over the hill]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2009/oct/07/trolley-going-over-hill/news-opinion/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[The imminent demise of overhead wire, externally-powered trolley line construction has been the subject of so many of my columns that a decent respect to the opinions of the readers requires that I declare some technology-related reasons for their predicted obit.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:11:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA['An honor and a privilege']]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2009/oct/05/honor-and-privilege/news-opinion/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow is an important day in the life of the city - it's Election Day.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Russian Ouija]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2009/sep/23/russian-ouija/news-opinion/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[In the late 1800s when Arthur Conan Doyle and a host of other leading lights were preoccupied with spiritualism, a parlor game was introduced to cash in on the trend.  It was called "Ouija."]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:13:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Elephant or donkey? Somebody tell me]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2009/sep/11/elephant-or-donkey-somebody-tell-me/news-opinion/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[I have nearly 63 years of experience knowing who and what I am. I know that I love my Washington Redskins. I hate the Yankees (who doesn't?). I think Frank Sinatra was the best singer in the world, and roast beef and mashed potatoes are a gift from God.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Football fever must be in the genes]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2009/sep/10/football-fever-must-be-genes/news-opinion/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[It's that time of the year again. Time to throw on your jersey, flip on the big screen and scream at the TV as if it will help your favorite football team.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Renaissance folks]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2009/sep/02/renaissance-folks/news-opinion/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[To compliment someone by referring to her or him as a "Renaissance" person is to allude to a rebirth and flowering of knowledge in 14th century Italy.  Just as the Renaissance was remarkable for the breadth of its learning -- the arts, engineering, medicine, literature -- a "Renaissance" man or woman is accomplished in several disciplines.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:12:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The mechanics of feedback]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2009/jul/29/291748/mechanics-feedback/news-opinion/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[If you read this and e-mail me at hst2nd@aol.com to say whether you liked, hated or are still pondering the column, that's valuable and appreciated feedback...critical feedback.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:48:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The world shook last month]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2009/jul/15/world-shook-last-month/news-opinion/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[On Monday, June 29, 2009, the world shook a bit, though it didn't make the evening news or the front page -- except perhaps in Topeka, Kansas, the epicenter.  That was the morning when Burlington Northern Santa Fe ("BNSF"), the biggest railroad in the USA, presented to the world the first full-scale hydrail locomotive. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:38:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Savoring the morning thunk]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2009/jul/03/savoring-morning-thunk/news-opinion/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[Back in March, Leonard Pitts of the Miami Herald wrote a column headlined, "Won't miss the newspaper?  Think again".  The occasion was the last print edition of the The Seattle Post-Intelligencer.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:13:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Father's smile always endures]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2009/jun/21/fathers-smile-always-endures/news-opinion/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[I thought of my father's smile the other day.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 21 Jun 2009 06:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Needed: A paradigm flip]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2009/jun/17/needed-paradigm-flip/news-opinion/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[A paradigm, per Webster, is a "pattern, example or model."  A "paradigm shift" is a profound change in what's expected -- taken to be the norm -- from something well established to something new, different and perhaps unknown.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:05:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[An Eden of change]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2009/may/11/eden-change/news-opinion/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[The 1969 movie classic, "2001: A Space Odyssey," has been re-released in the dazzling Blue Ray video format.  I had to have a copy, of course.  It's my all-time favorite flick.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 11 May 2009 15:22:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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