3/6/13 - 106-year-old Malabar cook to get diploma; Making sense of the Clashing Sequester Numbers

Today's Articles:

Mansfield News Journal
February 28, 2013
"106-year-old Malabar cook to get diploma"

"It took a long time but 106-year-old Reba Williams, Louis Bromfield’s cook at Malabar Farm from 1943 to 1957, will receive her high school diploma from Mount Vernon High School in the coming days."

NBC

March 4, 2013
"Making sense of the Clashing Sequester Numbers"

"In the raucous debate over the cuts in federal spending, also known as the sequester, which began taking effect Friday, a lot of numbers are being tossed around -- $85 billion, $42 billion, $1.2 trillion. And lots of adjectives, too -- “massive,” “deep,” “severe,” “arbitrary” and more."

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