The Wanderer: The Last American Slave Ship and the Conspiracy That Set Its Sails.
The Wanderer: The Last American Slave Ship and the Conspiracy That Set Its Sails. By Erik Calonius. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2006. Pp. [xviii], 298. $25.95, ISBN 978-0-312-34347-7.) The flaming rhetoric of the southerners who campaigned for secession in the 1850s earned them the moniker "fire-eaters."...

Striking Change.
Striking Change Michael F. Moran Whitman Publishing 3101 Clairmont Road Suite C, Atlanta, GA 30329 0794823564, $24.95 www.whitmanbooks.com Augustus Saint-Gaudens was a striking figure in 19th-century art and culture and Theodore Roosevelt was a new kind of president with...

Guarding the Garden; Boston hammers Hawks in Game 7.
Byline: Bill Doyle BOSTON - The Celtics sent a few messages loud and clear yesterday not only to the Atlanta Hawks, but the entire NBA. No, they haven't forgotten how to play defense. No, they didn't want to become known as victims of...

On the road again: night and day, truck drivers keep the country rolling.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Every day, more than 2.7 million trucks hit the road to pick up and deliver goods. If they suddenly stopped running, some people estimate, the United States would face critical food, fuel, and medical supply shortages within just 48 hours. That's a point of pride...

Money talks, and money studies, too.
Byline: Clive McFarlane COLUMN: CLIVE MCFARLANE R. Charles Loudermilk, an Atlanta businessman, is quite generous, having given millions of dollars to charitable endeavors and educational institutions over the years. Mr. Loudermilk, chairman and CEO of Aaron Rent, is now focusing his philanthropy on...

Grassley plans no hearings on alleged lavish spenders.
Senator Chuck Grassley, the Iowa Republican who is investigating the finances of six prominent Pentecostal and charismatic ministries, says he doesn't plan to hold hearings on any individual ministry and hopes he won't have to subpoena any of them. In response to critics who wonder if his...

Mockingbird Song: Ecological Landscapes of the South.
Mockingbird Song: Ecological Landscapes of the South. By Jack Temple Kirby. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xxii], 361. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3057-4.) Mockingbird Song: Ecological Landscapes of the South is a historical analysis of the environmental transformation of the American South from earliest...

Special listing.
The Board of Directors includes NEHA's nationally elected officers and regional vice presidents. Affiliate presidents (or appointed representatives) comprise the Council of Delegates. Technical section chairpersons, the executive director and all past presidents of the association are ex officio council members. This list is current as of press time....

Air Transport News.
Apr 14, 2008 D.J. Gribbin, general counsel for the U.S. Department of Transportation, testifying on the topic of airline delays before the U.S. House of Representatives committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, said the DoT is focusing on some short-term goals while not losing sight of the long-term...

Company Watch - Lockheed Martin.
Jan 21, 2008 DoD will request additional Lockheed F-22s. The US DoD will request additional Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptors next year, a move that would extend production of the plane beyond 2011. Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England also reiterated the DoD's plan to phase out F-22s in...