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...years it was difficult to decide whether the man they called the Georgia Peach belonged on the base paths or with the sociopaths. Yet there is no one who more clearly deserved a place in the Hall of Fame, and he was the first player voted in at the 1936 start. The battle of self-destruction and will began back in rural Georgia, when the teenage hunter accidentally shot himself with a .22 rifle. The bullet lodged in the vicinity of his clavicle and remained there for the rest of his life. Tyrus Raymond Cobb's father, W.H., a school...
Loudoun County officials were pleased at the prospect of Xeroxville. About 40 acres of the property have already been used by the firm for its corporate training center, and local relations are scented with magnolias and peach blossoms. Says Frank Raflo, chairman of the county board of supervisors: "If things were any better, I couldn't stand it." STEEL The Biggest Bankruptcy...
...certain respects, Fiorina did exactly what she had been asked to do. Hewlett Packard is Silicon Valley's alpha company, founded in a garage by Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard in 1938, when the area had far more peach trees than programmers. HP first produced oscilloscopes, then expanded to other testing and measuring instruments. It was a pocket-protector paradise, its culture defined by the HP way: paternal, collaborative, entrepreneurial, community minded and inconspicuous...
...large pot, mix thoroughly, with a rubber spatula (everything except the peaches), until sugar dissolves. Add the contents of the can of sliced peaches, including the syrup, and stir. Garnish with orange and lime wedges and peach slices. Add ice and mix; serve cold...
After graduation, he will do just that. Salvatierra is planning on moving to Atlanta, “back down South, and out of the cold North Eastern climate—little warmer weather, little warmer people.” He hopes the Peach State’s capital will work the same magic for him and his partner in rhyme, Jeff Hack ’03, as it did for singer/songwriter John Mayer, an artist who Salvatierra considers “a fabulous writer.” Atlanta is a strategic destination in that...