Aug. 6th, 2007

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Well, Older Sister has knee-replacement surgery scheduled next week, so she is organizing things and sending emergency contact info around and such.  She's been dodging this for years.  Still and all, this body-falling-apart thing sucks.  Mightily.
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Noted civil rights lawyer Oliver Hill, who played a pivotal role in the fight to end racial segregation in US schools, has died at the age of 100.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6932705.stm

I know this represents ancient history for a lot of people on the net, but a few of us fossils went to segregated schools in our dim and distant youth...

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