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...every Bill Gates there are literally a million Morris Popes. The 81-year-old retired train engineer has given at least $500 to the Atlanta Food Bank every year since 1982. One year he gave $1,200. And this on a retirement income of about $1,700 a month. He is almost too shy to mention the $3,000 he annually tithes to his First Corinth Missionary Baptist Church. "I look at how God has blessed me during my working years and raising my family, and I can't tell you how many times I've come to these homeless...
...came as no surprise that my flight home for the weekend last Friday was the latest in the "Can Vasant Make The Plane?" saga. A phone call to Delta Airlines made sure of that. "Flight 1029 from Newark, New Jersey to Atlanta, Georgia," the agonizingly slow voice said, "has been cancelled." I called again and got a seat for an earlier flight. Good, I thought, no problems so far. Then, right before I was about to leave work, my Mom's voice appeared in my head, saying, "Call before you go to the airport!" Again I slowly, reluctantly dialed Delta...
...fallen school records, the 100-meter run and the 4x100-meter relay, had belonged in part to another Trial competitor, Meredith Rainey-Valmon '90. An Atlanta Olympian in 1996, Rainey-Valmon will be attempting to make the team in the 800-meter run this weekend. She still holds the school records...
...campaign manager Joe Allbaugh on Friday to make that point. But that won't stop the speculation. Cheney's office called to get McCain's weekend telephone numbers, as they did with several other contenders. Saturday, McCain and Bush are attending the funeral of Georgia senator Paul Coverdell in Atlanta. Despite the solemnity of the event, very little of what the two men do at the service will go undetected and unremarked upon...
...TOYS OF SUMMER Going, going, gone...but just how far did it go? At this summer's Home Run Derby, held this week in Atlanta, baseball fans will finally know for sure. The event features new technology called True Track that instantly measures home runs to within a foot using a system of cameras and special 3-D modeling software. And get this--it'll even tell you how far a shot off the foul pole would have traveled...