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AS I SEE IT: Sharing a lifetime’s worth of secrets with trees
The men and their crew are gone now — the same men who were here two weeks ago pruning my backyard trees, removing three of them and grinding down their stumps. I hate when that has to happen. I love my trees. I wish the men and their crew weren’t coming back today to take down and grind up the big Maple in my front yard. “It’ll give you a lot more light when it’s gone,” one of them said. “You’ll like it.” He was wrong. I didn’t want more light. I wanted my Maple tree.
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ASK A LAWYER: Determining inheritance from mysterious great-uncles
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a weekly series of columns written by attorneys at Lester, Loving & Davies law firm in Edmond.
Many people at some point in their lives will wonder whether they’re entitled to part of an estate of a recently deceased great-uncle or aunt who was single with no children. It is a perfectly natural question that eventually occurs to most of us. At least those of us fortunate enough to outlive a miserly great-uncle who lived like a pauper and hoarded all of his pennies into millions of dollars. Not that we’re glad he’s gone. -
The best and worst jobs in the current economy
With rapid changes in the economy, some jobs are valued more than others, meaning if you can land one, there's usually higher pay and more perks. Meanwhile, other jobs that have traditionally been considered desirable have slipped toward the bottom of the heap.
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Tanning beds should carry skin cancer warnings, FDA proposes
Tanning beds would be forced to warn young people of the dangers of skin cancer and face tighter oversight under a proposal from U.S. regulators.
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Tesla talking with Google about 'autopilot' systems for cars
Elon Musk, the California billionaire who leads Tesla Motors, said the electric-car maker is considering adding driverless technology to its vehicles and discussing the prospects for such systems with Google.
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Mitsubishi crossover gets new styling
It has a base price around $19,000 and comes with a nice list of standard equipment for the money.
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Pfizer begins selling Viagra online to combat fake versions
Pfizer, the world's largest drugmaker, has started offering its impotence drug Viagra through a company-sponsored website to combat counterfeit versions that are sold online.
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VIDEO: Elizabeth Smart's advice for rescued Ohio women
The discovery of three women in a Cleveland home who all had gone missing separately about a decade ago brings to mind cases of abductions elsewhere. Elizabeth Smart says she is elated by the women's rescue.
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How to learn an instrument in 2013
If you don't want to take music lessons the traditional way, you don't have to. Numerous apps have been created to make it easy for you to learn the piano, guitar, drums or just about any other instrument you can think of.
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To clean up the Chesapeake Bay, researchers say, we need to unleash oyster power
Behold the tiny oyster.
No, not on the half-shell, with a squirt of lemon, but in its watery habitat, the Choptank River. - More Features Headlines
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AS I SEE IT: Sharing a lifetime’s worth of secrets with trees
