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Still Going
Web-posted July 10, 1996 at 10 p.m.
Tom Harley, chairman of Guy
Millner's campaign in Richmond
County, left, and Doug Duncan,
chairman for Columiba County,
install campaign signs Wednesday
in front of the Smile gas station on
Reynolds Street and 15th Street
photo: Blake Madden/Staff
T
he Georgia primary didn't settle anything for Republicans in key races as
they now face a runoff election in a month for the U.S. Senate and
secretary of state offices. In the most visible race - for U.S. Senate - the war is now.
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SRS Manager says
he regrets actions
Web-posted July 10, 1996 at 9 p.m. Looking back, Savannah River Site Manager Mario Fiori wished
he had stayed out of his daughter's summer employment with a
plant contractor and spared himself and his family a federal
investigation.
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Jail to get new bars
Web-posted July 10, 1996 at 9 p.m. The company that built a steel window bar that was cut by
hacksaw blades in less than four minutes will manufacture new bars
for the Columbia County Detention Center's 32 newest cells,
County Administrator Steve Szablewski said Wednesday.
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Features
Making 'em feel right at home
Web-posted July 10, 1996 at 8 p.m.
The coach of the Norwegian Olympic rowing team had a
problem. He wanted to make sure that his athletes got good bread - bread
like they were accustomed to eating in Norway - while they were
in Augusta for training. So for weeks the Sunshine Bakery has been mixing wheat and rye and
experimenting with yeast, sourdough and wheat kernels to get it
just right for the Scandinavian rowing team expected in Augusta
this month.
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Business
Crowds flock to opening
of Wal-Mart superstore
Web-posted
July 10 at 9:20 p.m.
They can finally catch a
breath, but the work has only just begun for employees at
Wal-Mart Store 1293. The monster
197,000-square-foot supercenter opened
Wednesday morning at Deans Bridge
Road and Bobby Jones Expressway.
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Sports
Table tennis takes national spotlight
Web-posted July 10, 1996 at 11 p.m.
Olympic table tennis gets some national exposure this morning.
Augusta's Jim Butler will appear today on the Regis
and Kathy Lee Show. On Saturday, the U.S. Olympic Table Tennis team will square off
against Romania and Holland in a local exhibition match.
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All's not well with
front-running Braves
Web-posted July 10, 1996 at 9 p.m. ATLANTA - For the Atlanta Braves, it's like starting all over
again.
A first half that ended with two straight victories and the most wins
in the major leagues won't mean anything tonight when the Braves
open the second half of the season against the Florida Marlins at
Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium.
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U.S. boxers plan surprise
Web-posted July 10, 1996 at 9 p.m. Antonio Tarver looks around the stuffy gym and sees the improvement, little by little, day after day. He sees young men - kids, really - written off by the experts but training feverishly to prove those experts wrong. He sees veterans like himself and super heavyweight Lawrence Clay-Bey sweating and straining to live up to international reputations.
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Savannah Sand Gnats set back Jackets
Web-posted July 10, 1996 at 11 p.m. Before 1,563 fans at Lake Olmstead Stadium, the Jackets were mastered by Sand Gnats starter Carl South (3-4). After making 23 relief appearances, the Roswell, Ga., native tossed shutout ball for six innings in his first start of the year, allowing four hits while walking three and fanning seven.
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Computers & Technology

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Cybershopping requires care
Web-posted July 10, 1996 at 7 p.m.
Consumers are increasingly using the Internet to shop. It's cybershopping, point-and-click commerce. But it's also a new frontier for fraud.
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WebTV lets you be
a couch potato again
Web-posted July 10, 1996 at 9 p.m. NEW YORK - A new company has rolled out a low-cost
device to browse the Internet's World Wide Web, blasting in front
of computer industry veterans who have talked about the idea for
months but not delivered. The company has overcome a major
hurdle by making Web pages look good on a TV screen,
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