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...however, the same onion can bring tears to the eyes. Grown here, it is called sweet-and is. The former presidential press secretary contends it will not make "your nose run, your heart burn, or your sweetheart gag." (In fairness, it should be pointed out that other localities, like Walla Walla, Wash., also produce a sweet onion. Tests have shown that the sugar content in the Vidalia is highest; it seems to have something to do with the mild climate and the paucity of sulfur in the sandy soil here...
After graduating summa cum laude from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash. in 1978, she worked as a teller at a local bank and three months later parlayed her one college computer course into a job in the computer section the bank was forming. Less than a year later, she was asked to become head of the operation. But she decided to study linguistics at Harvard instead. "Four years of Walla Walla was all anyone could stand," she explains...
...experiencing the pangs of composition can be a humbling experience. Taking criticism from others is painful but useful. Concedes Beverly Been, director of freshman composition at Washington's Walla Walla College: "In the past all I cared about was that students produced a paper that was grammatically correct. It may, in fact, have said nothing...
...wagon and walk every time I can. I figure I've walked 1,300 miles." Pat Doran, 62, a Blaine riding stable operator, is footing most expenses himself, and, like many other nonofficial drivers, is getting additional money from local groups and private donations. Tom Keen, a Walla Walla, Wash., construction worker, took up his wife Pat's challenge to build his own covered wagon; the couple sold their two cars, trailer house and furniture to finance the trip...
...lifes by an unsuccessful marriage, by the deterioration of cities in this country, by antiquated prison systems that have destroyed too many people he knows (which led him to be the first performer to play for the inmates on Death Row at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla...