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Carter takes state Senate District 42 in landslide

Jason Carter
Jason Carter – grandson of former President Jimmy Carter – won the state Senate District 42 seat on May 11. Carter, an Atlanta attorney, won 5,559 votes or about 66 percent of the vote to take the seat, according to preliminary state returns. Tom...

ZDX designer shares insight into new Acura

2010 Acura ZDX
Jason Widmer has one cool job. Dreaming up designs for the next generation of automobiles, then spending years to fine tune that design and working out the engineering to bring it to market and traveling the country talking about it. Widmer has spent...

Schwarzenegger encourages Emory grads to ‘stay hungry’

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the keynote speaker at the 2010 Emory University commencement, accepts an honorary degree from Emory president James. W. Wagner. Photo by Robert Naddra
In addition to his political career as governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger has been an international bodybuilding champion and an action movie icon. But at Emory University’s 2010 commencement ceremony on May 10, Schwarzenegger encouraged...

Albright delivers commencement speech at Agnes Scott College

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright gave Agnes Scott College's 2010 commencement speech, telling graduates that they would be looked upon to solve increasingly complex domestic and international problems in the future. Photo provided
The class of 2010 must help “restore the good name of democracy” across the world, former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said at Agnes Scott College’s commencement this month. Albright told the class of nearly 200 graduates that as ...

Louise Fawcett looking to score as Wii bowling pioneer

Top image, Floyd and Louise Fawcett. A click here and a swing there and Louise Fawcett is bowling. Photos by Gale Horton Gay.
With her eyes fixed on the lanes before her, Louise Fawcett lowers her hand, swings and watches as a ball strikes pins that tumble down. “Nice spare,” calls an encouraging female voice. Fawcett chuckles and prepares to do it again. This may sound...