A highland fling
By Robert W. Bone
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
http://starbulletin.com/2003/08/31/travel/story1.html
""Oh my gosh! What's that? Out there in the water!""
Ghosts in Ellis Avenue Home Caught in Snapshot
By Joanna Gaitanoglou
WLBT
http://www.wlbt.com/Global/story.asp?S=1423912&nav=2CSfHkYM
"If you're afraid of the dark, you might want to turn on all your lights before you read this story. A Jackson woman claims her house is haunted with not one but four ghosts. She invited WLBT to her home Saturday to see if we would find anything out of the ordinary."
The ghostly residents haunting Perth
by Karen Snider
Ottawa Citizen
http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=e325236b-3646-4311-af19-5542c36027ab
"Lying in his hospital bed recovering from an appendix operation, Peter Code heard the steady thumping of feet on the stairs. Suddenly, the blankets were whipped from his bed, leaving the 12-year-old exposed in his hospital gown."
Great Australian mysteries
ABC HOBART
http://www.abc.net.au/hobart/stories/s932300.htm
"Australia may not have a Stonehenge or an Abominable Snowman, but over the years our nation has well and truly accumulated it's fair share of mysteries, as 936 afternoon presenter Trevor Jackson recently discovered when he spoke to author and columnist John Pinkney."
Volunteers from near and far help restore Church of Scientology's new home
By MARK SOMMER
Buffalo News
http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20030829/1007496.asp
"Rebuild it and they will come."
Sex abuse victim sues Kingstons
By Ashley Broughton
Salt Lake Tribune
http://www.sltrib.com/2003/aug/08292003/utah/87921.asp
"More than five years after she was belt-whipped for fleeing a forced polygamous marriage to her uncle at age 16, Mary Ann Kingston is still scared, but flanked by attorneys, she is ready to do battle."
Pana Wave removes riverside cloth
Japan Times
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20030901a5.htm
"Pana Wave Laboratory on Sunday removed white cloth from a Fukui riverside that the group has occupied for several months."
School board gives nod to creationism, abstinence-only
Associated Press
<http://www.casperstartribune.net/ar.../wyoming/a0208af73dc2befaac4c8d432a0905bc.txt>
"School board members want theories other than evolution - such as creationism - taught in science classes and only sexual abstinence - not how to use contraceptives - taught in health classes."
We're vegetarians, we don't eat human organs, says the Living Perfect Master
by Philip Sherwell
The Telegraph [UK]
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/mai...ru31.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/08/31/ixworld.html>
"Dwarfed by an oversized throne garishly decorated in his favourite hues of saffron and pink, the self-professed "living perfect master" delivers a meandering sermon on love and peace to 250 adoring followers."
State could get first public chiropractic college
By Jim Ash
Palm Beach Post
<http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/c...tions/saturday/news_f3053254c64e813f007a.html>
"If House Speaker Johnnie Byrd wants to muscle a $45 million Alzheimer's research center into his district, he'll have to strike a major blow for alternative medicine and the much-maligned American chiropractor."
Ewing's is an especially virulent cancer
By Carey Hamilton
Salt Lake Tribune
http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Aug/08312003/utah/88503.asp
"If untreated, Ewing's sarcoma can spread through the blood to the lungs, bone marrow, kidneys and heart, resulting in an extremely painful death with patients gasping for their final breaths, experts say."
Battle lines are clear, but the law isn't
By ALLAN TURNER
Houston Chronicle
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2074030
"The voice on the telephone exploded with anger. "You've got enemies!" the caller barked at Kay Staley before launching into a scorching diatribe about atheism and the Houston real estate agent's unmitigated gall in suing the county to remove a religious monument from the grounds of the civil courthouse."
Investors find selling worms not as rich as expected
Associated Press
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20030831/APN/308310742
"About 30 North Carolina investors hoping to make money by farming worms got stuck in what authorities say was a pyramid scheme run by an Oklahoma company."
Don't let urban legend deprive hummingbirds of nourishment
By Brent Wheat
Lafayette Journal and Courier
http://www.lafayettejc.com/columns/200308300local_sports1062221958.shtml
"With the arrival of Labor Day, many Hoosiers believe that the first order of yard work is to clean out the hummingbird feeder and hang it in the garage. This belief is based on the theory that leaving the feeders up past Sept. 1 encourages the hummers to delay their fall migration to the southern U.S. and Mexico."
St. Joseph, pray for us (help us sell the house)
By Lawrence Buser
Memphis Commercial Appeal
http://www.gomemphis.com/mca/book_reviews/article/0,1426,MCA_485_2216371,00.html
"After his Little Rock home was on the market for seven months with no buyer in sight, Stephen J. Binz reluctantly took the passing advice of his Presbyterian Realtor."
Could this be the son of God?
by Candida Crewe
The Telegraph [UK]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2003/09/01/bvjesus30.xml
"A 41-year-old man dressed in a coarse, red velvet robe with scratchy gold braid takes his seat on a fine purple banquette in the Groucho Club. He wears thick socks under his sandals and carefully combs his long flowing hair before sitting down."
White cult unwraps river bank under gov't threat of force
Mainichi Daily News
http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20030831p2a00m0dm004001c.html
"The all-white Panawave cult removed white fabric that they had used to cover a long-stretch of a river embankment near their Fukui headquarters to protect themselves from "electromagnetic wave attacks," authorities confirmed Sunday."
Our home-grown Hitlers
by JEFF BAKER
The Oregonian
<http://www.oregonlive.com/entertainment/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/entertainment/1062245445237360.xml>
"The corner of Southeast 31st Avenue and Pine Street is quiet on a cool August morning. Every few minutes a car heads east on Pine toward Laurelhurst Park, or turns left onto 31st and moves rapidly up the narrow street."
Mayor's fantasy creates a festival
by DAVID KELLY
Los Angeles Times
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/6660553.htm
"Each year when summer ends and the tourists leave, the economy plummets in this little town, nestled among the cliffs of southwest Utah."
ANOTHER HOAX PLAYED ON VETERANS
By Mike Murphy
Mt Shasta Live
http://www.mtshastalive.com/story.asp?HDR=15&FragID=25368
"A few weeks ago, I wrote a column on a hoax being perpetrated on Vietnam Veterans regarding the Purple Heart Medal. There is another hoax traveling through veteran circles that has appeared periodically since the 1950s. It has to do with VA insurance."
State flag flap stirs dust in Iraq
By JIM GALLOWAY
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/0803/30polinsider.html
"Late Friday afternoon, toward the end of a long day in Baghdad, U.S. Army reserve Capt. Ken Hutnick of Alpharetta scored some time with a satellite phone."
Appleton’s Houdini Days brings magic to his favorite community
By Jim Lundstrom
Appleton Post-Crescent
http://www.wisinfo.com/postcrescent/news/archive/local_12008013.shtml
"Harry Houdini’s connection to Appleton may seem a tenuous one at first glance."
Seeking the undiscovered
By Deb Richardson-Moore
Greenville News
http://greenvilleonline.com/news/2003/08/31/2003083113295.htm
"Dallas Tanner looks the part of a Bigfoot hunter — grizzled, tanned, ruggedly dressed."
WD-40 turning 50 this year
By CHAD GRAHAM
Gannett News Service
http://www.news-press.com/news/lifestyle/030830wd40.html
"Phil Hey is an unapologetic fan of WD-40."
Rumor about state rattlesnake stocking untrue
by CHESTER MOORE, JR.
Associated Press
http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/sports/6657707.htm
"Have you heard that U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has stocked venomous timber rattlesnakes in the Pineywoods?"
Brazil jails occult killers
By Jan Rocha
BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3195157.stm
"A court in Belem, northern Brazil, has sentenced two men to a total of 92 years' imprisonment for their part in the murder and sexual mutilation of young boys in the Amazon town of Altamira between 1989 and 1993."
Immunizations: Life saving or harmful to children?
By JENNIFER WEAVER
Southern Utah Spectrum
http://www.thespectrum.com/news/stories/20030831/topstories/167198.html
"The injection may sting slightly, but it is lifesaving."
High-tech search turns up little
By DANIEL BARLOW
Brattleboro Reformer
http://www.reformer.com/Stories/0,1413,102~8860~1598569,00.html
"Using high-tech sonar equipment, New Hampshire State Police troopers searched part of the Connecticut River on Thursday seeking evidence relating to a Chesterfield mother and daughter who disappeared 212 ago."
Family-led search set for Saturday
By DANIEL BARLOW
Brattleboro Reformer
http://www.reformer.com/Stories/0,1413,102~8862~1598589,00.html
"A team of cadaver-sniffing dogs is expected to assist in the family-led search for a missing New Hampshire mother and daughter this weekend, although searchers are hoping that locally trained dogs and their owners will also turn out."
Looking good, Delores says
by John Mackie
Vancouver Sun
<http://www.canada.com/vancouver/vancouversun/story.asp?id=E9D98894-ACB2-443D-8134-D072E9202613>
"The side-show aspect of the fair circuit has all but disappeared in the last few years. No longer will you find a bearded lady, rubber man or a sword swallower at the Pacific National Exhibition."
Power of prayer must be treated with care
by Eugene Kane
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/aug03/166095.asp
"As a young impressionable black boy who spent many Sunday afternoons in church, I was always amazed to watch someone "get the spirit.""
Suspect had help, teen girl's mom says
By John Tuohy and Cathy Kightlinger
Indianapolis Star
http://www.indystar.com/print/articles/8/070211-5468-009.html
"A day after the death of the only suspect in her daughter's disappearance, a Greenwood mother said she thinks the man had accomplices."
You can be a millionaire
By TARA WESTREICHER
Casper Star-Tribune
<http://www.casperstartribune.net/ar...s/casper/4257d41918891bd8334395c0f11fe2c9.txt>
"Here's the proposition: A high-ranking businessman from an African country needs your help to secure a bank transfer of a multimillion-dollar windfall. His country doesn't allow its government officials to operate foreign accounts, so he needs to use yours."
Rumor mill abuzz with Saddam sightings as U.S. Army conducts an aggressive search
By Scheherezade Faramarzi
Associated Press
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/243/world/Rumor_mill_abuzz_with_Saddam_s:.shtml
"The Saddam Hussein rumor mill runs swiftly through the northern city of Mosul, through its groves of trees along the Tigris River, through its tea houses, through its tight-knit clans."
'Baba' held for torturing 11-yr-old girl to death
newindpress
<http://www.newindpress.com/Newsitem...&Title=Southern+News+-+Andhra+Pradesh&rLink=0>
"Majeed Khan (75), popularly known as Madhapur Baba, who allegedly tortured a 11-year-old girl, Parveen, to death under the pretext of curing her illness, was arrested by Icchoda police on Friday."
Tapes show litany of Sept. 11 rumors
BY LARRY MCSHANE
Associated Press
http://www.suntimes.com/output/terror/cst-nws-attacks31.html
"The caller's story was outrageous: Someone had fired missiles at the World Trade Center's north tower from atop the nearby Woolworth Building. Terrorists in a plane watching the attack then plowed into the south tower."
Science and Pseudoscience
Talk of the Nation
NPR
http://www.npr.org/rundowns/segment.php?wfId=1415763
"Ever consulted a pet psychic? Swear you saw a UFO? Do you avoid walking under ladders for fear of inviting bad luck? Why do we believe in strange things? NPR's Ira Flatow leads a discussion about science, pseudoscience and the nature of scientific proof. Are we skeptical enough?"
Pinellas joins the flow, adds fluoride
By MICHAEL SANDLER
St. Petersburg Times
http://www.sptimes.com/2003/08/27/Tampabay/Pinellas_joins_the_fl.shtml
"After decades of resisting one of the most recognized trends in preventing tooth decay, Pinellas County relented Tuesday and agreed to add fluoride to the bulk of the county's water supply."
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By Robert W. Bone
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
http://starbulletin.com/2003/08/31/travel/story1.html
""Oh my gosh! What's that? Out there in the water!""
Ghosts in Ellis Avenue Home Caught in Snapshot
By Joanna Gaitanoglou
WLBT
http://www.wlbt.com/Global/story.asp?S=1423912&nav=2CSfHkYM
"If you're afraid of the dark, you might want to turn on all your lights before you read this story. A Jackson woman claims her house is haunted with not one but four ghosts. She invited WLBT to her home Saturday to see if we would find anything out of the ordinary."
The ghostly residents haunting Perth
by Karen Snider
Ottawa Citizen
http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=e325236b-3646-4311-af19-5542c36027ab
"Lying in his hospital bed recovering from an appendix operation, Peter Code heard the steady thumping of feet on the stairs. Suddenly, the blankets were whipped from his bed, leaving the 12-year-old exposed in his hospital gown."
Great Australian mysteries
ABC HOBART
http://www.abc.net.au/hobart/stories/s932300.htm
"Australia may not have a Stonehenge or an Abominable Snowman, but over the years our nation has well and truly accumulated it's fair share of mysteries, as 936 afternoon presenter Trevor Jackson recently discovered when he spoke to author and columnist John Pinkney."
Volunteers from near and far help restore Church of Scientology's new home
By MARK SOMMER
Buffalo News
http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20030829/1007496.asp
"Rebuild it and they will come."
Sex abuse victim sues Kingstons
By Ashley Broughton
Salt Lake Tribune
http://www.sltrib.com/2003/aug/08292003/utah/87921.asp
"More than five years after she was belt-whipped for fleeing a forced polygamous marriage to her uncle at age 16, Mary Ann Kingston is still scared, but flanked by attorneys, she is ready to do battle."
Pana Wave removes riverside cloth
Japan Times
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20030901a5.htm
"Pana Wave Laboratory on Sunday removed white cloth from a Fukui riverside that the group has occupied for several months."
School board gives nod to creationism, abstinence-only
Associated Press
<http://www.casperstartribune.net/ar.../wyoming/a0208af73dc2befaac4c8d432a0905bc.txt>
"School board members want theories other than evolution - such as creationism - taught in science classes and only sexual abstinence - not how to use contraceptives - taught in health classes."
We're vegetarians, we don't eat human organs, says the Living Perfect Master
by Philip Sherwell
The Telegraph [UK]
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/mai...ru31.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/08/31/ixworld.html>
"Dwarfed by an oversized throne garishly decorated in his favourite hues of saffron and pink, the self-professed "living perfect master" delivers a meandering sermon on love and peace to 250 adoring followers."
State could get first public chiropractic college
By Jim Ash
Palm Beach Post
<http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/c...tions/saturday/news_f3053254c64e813f007a.html>
"If House Speaker Johnnie Byrd wants to muscle a $45 million Alzheimer's research center into his district, he'll have to strike a major blow for alternative medicine and the much-maligned American chiropractor."
Ewing's is an especially virulent cancer
By Carey Hamilton
Salt Lake Tribune
http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Aug/08312003/utah/88503.asp
"If untreated, Ewing's sarcoma can spread through the blood to the lungs, bone marrow, kidneys and heart, resulting in an extremely painful death with patients gasping for their final breaths, experts say."
Battle lines are clear, but the law isn't
By ALLAN TURNER
Houston Chronicle
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2074030
"The voice on the telephone exploded with anger. "You've got enemies!" the caller barked at Kay Staley before launching into a scorching diatribe about atheism and the Houston real estate agent's unmitigated gall in suing the county to remove a religious monument from the grounds of the civil courthouse."
Investors find selling worms not as rich as expected
Associated Press
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20030831/APN/308310742
"About 30 North Carolina investors hoping to make money by farming worms got stuck in what authorities say was a pyramid scheme run by an Oklahoma company."
Don't let urban legend deprive hummingbirds of nourishment
By Brent Wheat
Lafayette Journal and Courier
http://www.lafayettejc.com/columns/200308300local_sports1062221958.shtml
"With the arrival of Labor Day, many Hoosiers believe that the first order of yard work is to clean out the hummingbird feeder and hang it in the garage. This belief is based on the theory that leaving the feeders up past Sept. 1 encourages the hummers to delay their fall migration to the southern U.S. and Mexico."
St. Joseph, pray for us (help us sell the house)
By Lawrence Buser
Memphis Commercial Appeal
http://www.gomemphis.com/mca/book_reviews/article/0,1426,MCA_485_2216371,00.html
"After his Little Rock home was on the market for seven months with no buyer in sight, Stephen J. Binz reluctantly took the passing advice of his Presbyterian Realtor."
Could this be the son of God?
by Candida Crewe
The Telegraph [UK]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2003/09/01/bvjesus30.xml
"A 41-year-old man dressed in a coarse, red velvet robe with scratchy gold braid takes his seat on a fine purple banquette in the Groucho Club. He wears thick socks under his sandals and carefully combs his long flowing hair before sitting down."
White cult unwraps river bank under gov't threat of force
Mainichi Daily News
http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20030831p2a00m0dm004001c.html
"The all-white Panawave cult removed white fabric that they had used to cover a long-stretch of a river embankment near their Fukui headquarters to protect themselves from "electromagnetic wave attacks," authorities confirmed Sunday."
Our home-grown Hitlers
by JEFF BAKER
The Oregonian
<http://www.oregonlive.com/entertainment/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/entertainment/1062245445237360.xml>
"The corner of Southeast 31st Avenue and Pine Street is quiet on a cool August morning. Every few minutes a car heads east on Pine toward Laurelhurst Park, or turns left onto 31st and moves rapidly up the narrow street."
Mayor's fantasy creates a festival
by DAVID KELLY
Los Angeles Times
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/6660553.htm
"Each year when summer ends and the tourists leave, the economy plummets in this little town, nestled among the cliffs of southwest Utah."
ANOTHER HOAX PLAYED ON VETERANS
By Mike Murphy
Mt Shasta Live
http://www.mtshastalive.com/story.asp?HDR=15&FragID=25368
"A few weeks ago, I wrote a column on a hoax being perpetrated on Vietnam Veterans regarding the Purple Heart Medal. There is another hoax traveling through veteran circles that has appeared periodically since the 1950s. It has to do with VA insurance."
State flag flap stirs dust in Iraq
By JIM GALLOWAY
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/0803/30polinsider.html
"Late Friday afternoon, toward the end of a long day in Baghdad, U.S. Army reserve Capt. Ken Hutnick of Alpharetta scored some time with a satellite phone."
Appleton’s Houdini Days brings magic to his favorite community
By Jim Lundstrom
Appleton Post-Crescent
http://www.wisinfo.com/postcrescent/news/archive/local_12008013.shtml
"Harry Houdini’s connection to Appleton may seem a tenuous one at first glance."
Seeking the undiscovered
By Deb Richardson-Moore
Greenville News
http://greenvilleonline.com/news/2003/08/31/2003083113295.htm
"Dallas Tanner looks the part of a Bigfoot hunter — grizzled, tanned, ruggedly dressed."
WD-40 turning 50 this year
By CHAD GRAHAM
Gannett News Service
http://www.news-press.com/news/lifestyle/030830wd40.html
"Phil Hey is an unapologetic fan of WD-40."
Rumor about state rattlesnake stocking untrue
by CHESTER MOORE, JR.
Associated Press
http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/sports/6657707.htm
"Have you heard that U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has stocked venomous timber rattlesnakes in the Pineywoods?"
Brazil jails occult killers
By Jan Rocha
BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3195157.stm
"A court in Belem, northern Brazil, has sentenced two men to a total of 92 years' imprisonment for their part in the murder and sexual mutilation of young boys in the Amazon town of Altamira between 1989 and 1993."
Immunizations: Life saving or harmful to children?
By JENNIFER WEAVER
Southern Utah Spectrum
http://www.thespectrum.com/news/stories/20030831/topstories/167198.html
"The injection may sting slightly, but it is lifesaving."
High-tech search turns up little
By DANIEL BARLOW
Brattleboro Reformer
http://www.reformer.com/Stories/0,1413,102~8860~1598569,00.html
"Using high-tech sonar equipment, New Hampshire State Police troopers searched part of the Connecticut River on Thursday seeking evidence relating to a Chesterfield mother and daughter who disappeared 212 ago."
Family-led search set for Saturday
By DANIEL BARLOW
Brattleboro Reformer
http://www.reformer.com/Stories/0,1413,102~8862~1598589,00.html
"A team of cadaver-sniffing dogs is expected to assist in the family-led search for a missing New Hampshire mother and daughter this weekend, although searchers are hoping that locally trained dogs and their owners will also turn out."
Looking good, Delores says
by John Mackie
Vancouver Sun
<http://www.canada.com/vancouver/vancouversun/story.asp?id=E9D98894-ACB2-443D-8134-D072E9202613>
"The side-show aspect of the fair circuit has all but disappeared in the last few years. No longer will you find a bearded lady, rubber man or a sword swallower at the Pacific National Exhibition."
Power of prayer must be treated with care
by Eugene Kane
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/aug03/166095.asp
"As a young impressionable black boy who spent many Sunday afternoons in church, I was always amazed to watch someone "get the spirit.""
Suspect had help, teen girl's mom says
By John Tuohy and Cathy Kightlinger
Indianapolis Star
http://www.indystar.com/print/articles/8/070211-5468-009.html
"A day after the death of the only suspect in her daughter's disappearance, a Greenwood mother said she thinks the man had accomplices."
You can be a millionaire
By TARA WESTREICHER
Casper Star-Tribune
<http://www.casperstartribune.net/ar...s/casper/4257d41918891bd8334395c0f11fe2c9.txt>
"Here's the proposition: A high-ranking businessman from an African country needs your help to secure a bank transfer of a multimillion-dollar windfall. His country doesn't allow its government officials to operate foreign accounts, so he needs to use yours."
Rumor mill abuzz with Saddam sightings as U.S. Army conducts an aggressive search
By Scheherezade Faramarzi
Associated Press
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/243/world/Rumor_mill_abuzz_with_Saddam_s:.shtml
"The Saddam Hussein rumor mill runs swiftly through the northern city of Mosul, through its groves of trees along the Tigris River, through its tea houses, through its tight-knit clans."
'Baba' held for torturing 11-yr-old girl to death
newindpress
<http://www.newindpress.com/Newsitem...&Title=Southern+News+-+Andhra+Pradesh&rLink=0>
"Majeed Khan (75), popularly known as Madhapur Baba, who allegedly tortured a 11-year-old girl, Parveen, to death under the pretext of curing her illness, was arrested by Icchoda police on Friday."
Tapes show litany of Sept. 11 rumors
BY LARRY MCSHANE
Associated Press
http://www.suntimes.com/output/terror/cst-nws-attacks31.html
"The caller's story was outrageous: Someone had fired missiles at the World Trade Center's north tower from atop the nearby Woolworth Building. Terrorists in a plane watching the attack then plowed into the south tower."
Science and Pseudoscience
Talk of the Nation
NPR
http://www.npr.org/rundowns/segment.php?wfId=1415763
"Ever consulted a pet psychic? Swear you saw a UFO? Do you avoid walking under ladders for fear of inviting bad luck? Why do we believe in strange things? NPR's Ira Flatow leads a discussion about science, pseudoscience and the nature of scientific proof. Are we skeptical enough?"
Pinellas joins the flow, adds fluoride
By MICHAEL SANDLER
St. Petersburg Times
http://www.sptimes.com/2003/08/27/Tampabay/Pinellas_joins_the_fl.shtml
"After decades of resisting one of the most recognized trends in preventing tooth decay, Pinellas County relented Tuesday and agreed to add fluoride to the bulk of the county's water supply."
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