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DIED. HUGH GLOSTER, 90, longtime president of Morehouse College who oversaw the historically black school's rapid expansion in the key post-civil rights era; in Decatur, Ga. In his 19-year tenure, enrollment and faculty doubled...
There is a time to weep, a season to mourn. But there is not supposed to be a second time to do it again from the beginning. Last Tuesday night, about 100 alumni of grief filed into the Oakwood Baptist Church in Walker County, Ga. Clutching candles and tissues, they were forced to revisit the rituals of death. This time they prayed not for the souls of the dead but for the bodies--the 298 (and counting) men, women and at least one infant strewn about the landscape of a remote northwest Georgia crematory...
...thought contained their loved ones' ashes to the Walker County Civic Center in hopes of putting them to rest--again. "One woman had her mama in her lap. The next one had her uncle. The next one had her brother," recalls Gary Guy, 50, who had come from Ringgold, Ga., to track down his mother-in-law's body. "How in the world could this have happened...
While the scene at the Noble, Ga., crematory is a uniquely grisly spectacle--more than 500 forensic experts, anthropologists and other investigators expect to spend the next eight months and many millions of dollars extracting bodies in every stage of decomposition--it did not come as a complete surprise to those who study the death industry. For years critics have been calling for better state and federal oversight of such businesses. While the vast majority of funeral directors and crematory operators do their job honorably, there is plenty of room for abuse, and every so often a scandal spurs...
Before the catfish flap, Americans from several Southern states fought one another over the popular "no tears" onions known as Vidalia Sweets. Originally grown near the town of Vidalia, Ga., these onions soon were cultivated elsewhere from Vidalia onion seeds. A 1986 Georgia law says onion growers in only 20 of the state's 159 counties can label their produce Vidalia. Violators are fined by the state's commissioner of agriculture...