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...crackdown on Final Exit Network, a group based in Marietta, Ga., that is accused of assisted suicide, has revived the right-to-die debate that was fueled in the 1990s by Jack Kevorkian, the Michigan doctor who assisted in the deaths of 130 terminally ill people. But Final Exit claims that its volunteers do not perform assisted suicides à la Kevorkian, who was convicted of second-degree murder and went to prison for giving a lethal injection to a man suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease. Rather, the group argues that it merely provides a "compassionate presence" for terminally...
...thanks to Georgia's recent gas shortages. Representative Hank Johnson, a Democrat, says locals have been waiting in long lines for gas and paying big prices to fill up, which could be "partially responsible for people's desire not to bail out Wall Street." An editorial in Tuesday's Marietta Daily Journal gave a thumbs-up to the thumbs-down on the bailout, calling it the "right move from a long-term perspective, but what it means for the shaky economy in the short term is anybody's guess...
Some locals point their finger at Republicans for bringing the country to the brink. "I have to believe that if nothing has happened by Thursday, the market will tank," says Phil Solari, a Marietta resident and registered Democrat. Republicans, he says, "created this mess, and they're now incapable of getting their own people behind the President to vote for this bill. They either didn't understand what it meant to the average person on the street or they didn't care." - By Paige Bowers / Atlanta...
...most residents of America's ever-expanding big cities, construction and road-work signs are so common they barely get a passing glance. But for Cynthia Good, CEO and founder of Pink magazine, a women's business publication based in Atlanta, the "Men Working" sign on the corner of Marietta Street and Northside Drive just a few blocks from her office couldn't be ignored. In early July, city police found that someone had spray painted two extra letters, W and O, on the sign, and received a report that put Good at the scene with a can of spray...
...barge, a grain vessel, was the last. The inland waterway fleet is overbuilt and underused, and Jeffboat, its work force reduced to 70 from a 1981 peak of 2,300, will retreat into the repair business. Jeffboat folds up what Manager John Briley of the Ohio River Museum in Marietta calls ''the last major shipyard'' on a river that once boasted one in almost every town...