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...then there's Jerry Dodgen, 72, who runs an Atlanta rock-climbing school. On a climb two years ago, he slipped and tore his Achilles tendon. "The doctor said I couldn't climb again for 18 months, but about 10 months out I realized something: he wasn't so concerned that I climb again; he just didn't want me to fall again," Dodgen says, chuckling. He headed back out pronto, climbing in a cast and using crutches to traverse trails...
...designated as one of five education and literacy programs that would receive special attention and support from Laura Bush. In 2002, the President in his State of the Union address called for increased national service and then illustrated what he meant by visiting a Teach for America school in Atlanta. "I am proud to stand up and talk about the best of America and Wendy Kopp," the President said. "I hope young Americans all across the country think about joining Teach for America...
...Atlanta, several Bush aides approached Kopp and encouraged her to quadruple the size of the Teach for America infantry, from 1,000 to 4,000 per year. (Each TFA teacher serves for two years and receives $4,725 per year in college scholarship money.) Last January Teach for America received a $2 million "challenge grant" to facilitate the expansion. But about that same time Kopp began to hear that AmeriCorps' priorities had changed. Programs that encouraged voluntarism would be favored over so-called professional corps like Teach for America. She says she was assured by John Bridgeland, the Bush voluntarism...
...project, planned on a larger scale than Johnson’s, requires 86 monkeys at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center in Atlanta, Ga. But the study attempts only to determine whether test vaccines effective in preventing the virus...
...people make a personal decision to eat smaller portions, eat healthy foods and exercise. Our government should not be in the business of attempting to control my behavior by imposing a tax on fast food or mandating the portion size I can be served in a restaurant. Heather Peoples Atlanta, Georgia...