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News Features

  • A Supersized Problem

    Tackling the Obesity Epidemic

    New statistics show that Georgians are getting fatter. UGA professors and health care experts are trying to get their arms around the problem.

  • How Children Succeed

    Instilling Students With Grit and Curiosity

    In advance of a lecture at UGA, the best-selling author of Whatever It Takes talks about his latest book, on how building character is the best way to help poor students succeed.

  • Partners Against Poverty

    Agencies Work Together to Fight Poverty With Education

    It's no Harlem Children's Zone—yet—but the Clarke County School District and local nonprofits are fighting poverty on multiple fronts.

  • Big Box Apocalypse

    Bringing Atlanta Highway Back to Life

    A new mall in Oconee County, an intown development boom, traffic congestion, a still-struggling consumer economy and sheer ugliness are threatening to wipe out Atlanta Highway.

  • An Almost-Eyewitness Account

    New Evidence About Mary Meyer’s Murder

    An Athens-area resident says he saw who killed JFK’s mistress.

  • Deferred Action

    New Policy Lets Immigrants Out of the Shadows

    Thousands of young, undocumented Georgians are expected to apply for a two-year reprieve from deportation, allowing them to work and go to college in the nation they've called home since childhood.

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