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News from the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

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Home PCs and Y2K. 09/30/99
Everyone's worried about how Y2K will affect computers at the bank, at work and at the local power company. But what about your home computer? Have you prepared it for the year 2000?
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Water Stash. 09/30/99
Come hurricanes, tornados or even Y2K, you can have your eight glasses of water per day if you stock up now.
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Small Fruit Site. 09/27/99
Just in time to send out important information to farmers hit by Hurricane Floyd, the Southern Region Small Fruit Center is up and running. The virtual center, begun Sept. 17, was a year in the making.
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'Flowers That Fly.' 09/25/99
"Flowers that fly" are more than a fad. Georgians' fascination with butterfly gardening is growing every year. On "The Georgia Gardener" Sept. 30 and Oct. 2, host Walter Reeves visits with University of Georgia horticulturist Paul Thomas to learn more about these fluttering gardens
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Alumni Honors 09/25/99
The Agricultural Alumni Association honored its own at its 45th annual awards banquet in Athens Sept. 24. Members are graduates of the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.
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Safer Lettuce. 09/23/99
University of Georgia food scientists have found consumers can reduce their risk of food-borne illness by washing lettuce before preparing homemade fresh salads.
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Railroad Garden. 09/22/99
All gardens are nice. Some are truly unique. On "The Georgia Gardener" Sept. 23 and 25, host Walter Reeves visits Charles and Frances Tidd to see their railroad garden.
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Drought 2000 09/22/99
Stooksbury hopes he's wrong, but current climatological conditions and history point to the current drought lasting into 2000. That means several more months of wildfire danger, low stream flows and agricultural impacts.
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Brooks Lecture. 09/22/99
Former Gov. Zell Miller will be the featured speaker at the 1999 D.W. Brooks Lecture Oct. 4 at in the Mahler Auditorium in the University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education.
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Selections Group. 09/16/99
The Georgia Plant Selections Committee is a nonprofit group supported by industry donations. Growers, retailers and landscapers are encouraged to join and to attend the quarterly meetings.