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Update from the Chamber of Commerce
Breakfast guests to hear about healthcarereform, stimulus bills
      U.S. Rep. Robert Aderholt, of Alabama’s Fourth Congressional District, will be the main speaker at the monthly Blount County- Oneonta Chamber of Commerce breakfast scheduled for Wednesday, Aug. 12, at 7:30 a.m. at Twin Oaks. St. Vincent’s Blount will sponsor the program.
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Alabama Scene
Prosecutors accused of sexual blackmail in Siegelman case
      Sexual blackmail can now be added to the list of the misconduct charges made against federal prosecutors in the Don Siegelman case.
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The bookworm sez
‘Diet myths that keep us fat’
      About seventeen hundred years. That’s how long you figure it will take to get into that swimsuit you bought at the end-of-season clearance last August. The swimsuit was perfect, it was marked down, and you figured you could diet into it, no problem. Fat chance.
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From the Archives
The Southern Democrat, July 31, 1980
     Meningitis outbreak watched About 50 suspected cases of aseptic meningitis have hospitalized at Blount Memorial and many milder cases have been allowed to recover at home. The disease at this point is thought to be aseptic meningitis, due to infection from a form of enterovirus.
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LIVING WELL
PREVENTING INJURIES FROM EXERCISING
      If you exercise for any length of time, chances are you will experience some type of injury. Most of the time, it’s minor aches and pains, maybe a little muscle soreness, but sometimes it’s a little more serious.
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Addiction
Co-dependency: addictions to unhealthy relationships
      This article is one of a series on the faces and forms of addiction. It is a collaboration among Alden Brindle, intensive outpatient director at Hope House; his wife Marie, Hope House counselor; and writer Nancy Jackson.
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Paleo Profiles
Odontaspis macrota
      This selection for Paleo Profiles is recognizable immediately to almost everyone. Shark tooth! This particular tooth belongs to a shark known scientifically as Odontaspis macrota, a type of sand tiger shark. It was easily plucked from the loose grasp of the Lisbon formation, a Middle Eocene marine deposit exposed in parts of south Alabama.
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