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The Slice archive for May 2, 2012

WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 2012

What car was mocked in your circle? 

When I was a teenager, one friend regularly drove his parents' old Ford Falcon Futura. It was a pretty nondescript car. Inoffensive, really. But we enjoyed acting as if it was an affront to all that was decent and well-designed. "The Futura," we would say…

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The company you keep 

I never met Jesse Owens, but we were in the same hospital once. Shortly before he died in 1980, he was undergoing cancer treatment at the University of Arizona medical center. I covered a news conference at that hospital as a reporter for the morning…

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The Wednesday Slice

Maybe you know the individual who is the answer to this question. Who around here is the oldest person to have ever called "shotgun" as several people approached a vehicle they were about to enter? Time management:There's something to be said for waiting until the…

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