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Suit up

12/30/2009 3:37 PM

Can safety on commercial airline flights be 100 percent guaranteed? Probably not. But here's an idea that might work. Make all passengers wear a disposable jumpsuit on ...

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What stress?

12/28/2009 1:16 PM

So, the football coach at the University of Florida has to take a break because he's under so much stress. Oh, please!

I'm not saying that it's not a tough job, ...

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Oh! Christmas Tree

12/23/2009 12:48 PM

Every Christmas for at least the last 23 years I have had a Christmas tree in my house. This year marked a departure, sort of.

I simply haven't gotten into the Christmas ...

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Oh, really?

12/11/2009 4:20 PM

Sarah Palin actually had some kind words about President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech. Sort of.

Asked about the president's speech, she said she thought ...

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Jonezin

Mike Jones is a native Oklahoman (not an Okie), born and raised in Seminole, Okla. He began his career at the Tulsa World in 1971 as an oil writer for the late Riley Wilson. After three years as an oil writer, he became a copy editor on the national desk. He moved to the city desk in 1974 where he also worked as a general assignment reporter. After stints on the late city desk, he became assistant city editor and in 1979 succeeded longtime city editor John Gold, one of his mentors, as city editor. He served as city editor for almost four years before joining the editorial staff as a layout editor and editorial writer in 1985. He was named associate editor and has since written a Sunday column and daily editorials. He has a son, Sam, who is a local musician with the reggae band Sam and the Stylees. Jones is the honorary CEO of that group, a title of which he is most proud.

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