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Monthly Archives: September 2012

Murder, Mayhem and the Mother Tongue

Monday, September 3, 2012

The cover of the rare 1969 pamphlet Wallace Carroll’s “Murder, Mayhem and the Mother Tongue,” until now, existed only in the form of a pamphlet printed around 1969. A few are still in existence. At a reunion of former Winston-Salem Journal employees not too long ago, an old colleague gave me a copy if I […]

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The future of rain

Saturday, September 1, 2012

Projected change in summer rainfall by 2080-2099. See link below to full chart. Is it surprising that servants of the oil industry continue to deny climate change, even though they aren’t really fooling anybody? A poll last year found that 83 percent of Americans believe the world is warming, including 72 percent of Republicans. But […]

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