Perk wakes up for finale.
Byline: Jennifer Toland BOSTON - Kendrick Perkins had spent the last two nights tossing, turning, thinking, tossing, turning - anything but sleeping. Friday night's Game 6 loss in Atlanta stuck with the Celtics center. He made sure there wasn't a repeat yesterday in Game 7....

FIRST builds `character'; Clinton team has hard time in nationals.
Byline: Jan Gottesman ATLANTA, Ga. - It wasn't a gold medal performance, but the "ultimate character building exercise," when the Clinton High School-Nypro FIRST team competed this past weekend in the national robotics competition. The Clinton team, known as Gael Force, competed in its 17th...

War without glory.
Byline: Sean Nack For The Register-Guard I wish I could tell you a story. There would be a believer, a young man, a proud soldier unhindered by doubt, knowing in his heart that he is fighting, ultimately, for the greater good, and that in his lifetime he...

Rondo ready for a challenge.
Byline: Paul Jarvey COLUMN: PAUL JARVEY WALTHAM - You don't need to be Red Auerbach to figure out how the Atlanta Hawks will come at the Celtics. They're going to try to make second-year point guard Rajon Rondo beat them. They're going to...

Hawks get physical; Celts get tougher and take 2-0 lead.
Byline: Bill Doyle COLUMN: NBA PLAYOFFS BOSTON - Paul Pierce didn't think the Hawks were trying to send a message when they knocked him to the floor and hurt his back early in last night's game, but the rest of the Celtics did, and they...

Designing a dream.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Mrs. May Poetter has enjoyed an eventful year. Savannah College of Arts and Design, the academic institution she co-founded, was named one of "25 cutting-edge schools with an eye toward the future" by Kaplan, and Mrs. Poetter celebrated her 90th birthday this past July. ...

Fred Stacks.
HIXSON, TN Fred Banks Stacks, of Hixson, Tennessee, passed away on Wednesday, March 12, 2008. Fred Banks Stacks was born May 18, 1917 in Dadeville, Alabama to J. Comer Stacks and Martha Ann Treadwell. He was a Veteran of World War II serving in the Unites States...

At home in the farm.
A hacienda in Batangas wants to turn yuppies into farmers. Most people accustomed to living in the big city won't probably like the idea of living in a farm. Think of farm living and a bahay kubo, and a hardworking farmer and his carabao tilling the land...

Tough decisions surround Rx in pregnancy: the child will be exposed to illness or treatment, and 'some decisions are far worse than others.'.
KOLOA, HAWAII -- Labeling typically doesn't support the use of psychotropic drugs in pregnant women, but the drugs might be needed during pregnancy, according to an observational study done at Emory University, Atlanta. "What I want you to recognize is that you're going to expose the child...

100 Greatest American Medals and Tokens.
100 Greatest American Medals and Tokens Katherine Jaeger and Q. David Bowers Whitman Publishing 3101 Clairmont Rd. Suite C, Atlanta, GA 30329 0794822606 $29.95 www.whitmanbooks.com Libraries catering to collectors as well as any interested in the history of American...