Johnnie and Stella were in their 20s when they met at a party in 1958. Now he's 74, and she's 72. Granddaughter Briana Blakeney tells their story:The handsome guy: Johnnie introduced himself to Stella at a lawn party hosted by students at Charlotte's Good Samaritan School of Nursing in 1958. It was not love at first sight, but they became good friends. She thought he was handsome and shy. He thought she was petite and awfully pretty.Read more:
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From the perspective of the Norwegian investment firm Arctic Securities, the emergence of chess superstar Magnus Carlsen - the strongest player in the world at 19 - represents an enticing opportunity.For the last year or so, the Nordic prodigy has been displaying the company's logo on his clothes.Read more:
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(By Aaron Sagers, McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) The thermometer icons on Web browsers and smart phones are all deep red, with tiny steam lines floating off of them, and every 24-hour news outlet is breaking out special graphics featuring melting ice cubes or menacing-looking suns. Air conditioners are defiantly fighting a weakened power grid and temperatures topping 100 degrees.Every moment spent outdoors reveals a new batch of previously undiscovered sweaty pores, and it seems like any second, the collective faces of America may melt clean off, revealing a grimacing network of bone and muscle tissue.Read more:
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(By Frazier Moore, Associated Press) For three decades, Johnny Carson tucked his audience into bed while welcoming thousands of guests to "The Tonight Show."Now the full Carson canon has been restored, digitized, annotated and transcribed.Read more:
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(Salem Macknee) BurnNevada Barr, Minotaur, 384pagesRead more:
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Chess has a protean ability to keep up with the times and the changing requirements of time itself.Seventy or eighty years ago, chess seemed unvaryingly slow to the unsympathetic observer. Today, courtesy of modern chess timers and custom, you may play an entire game - casual or tournament - in one minute or six hours.Read more:
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