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Gracie Bonds Staples

Gracie Bonds Staples is a lifestyle writer for AJC. She joined the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in July 2000, after stints at the Fort Worth-Star Telegram, Sacarement Bee, Raleigh Times and two Mississipp dailies . Gracie graduated in 1979 from the University of Southern Mississippi. She and her husband Jimmy Staples have two daughters, Jamila and Asha.

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Bonuses suspended for senior execs at Atlanta VA

Bonuses for some local senior executives at the Department of Veterans Affairs have been deferred pending further review, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs said Saturday. A former top administrator at the Atlanta VA Medical Center received performance bonuses over a four-year span as internal audits revealed lengthy wait times ...

  • 4:17 p.m. Saturday, May 4, 2013
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Ann Powell in her Buckhead home where she grew up and lived with her parents Stuart and Harriet Stapleford. Powell entered her name, birth date, gender, ethnicity, e-mail address and answered five questions about whether she had a family history or been diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment or dementia. In less than five minutes, the Buckhead real estate manager had become one of thousands of people who've so far signed up for the new Alzheimer's Prevention Registry. The registry, launched in May, is part of a collaborative effort led by the Banner Alzheimer's Institute and scientist across the world to conduct cutting edge Alzheimer's prevention studies. Both Powell's parents and mother-in-law died within years of each other of the debilitating disease.

National registry to help prevent Alzheimer’s

Ann Powell entered her name, birth date, gender, ethnicity, e-mail address and answered five questions about whether she had a family history or been diagnoses with mild cognitive impairment or dementia. In less than five minutes, the Buckhead real estate manager had become one of thousands of people who have ...

  • 12:00 a.m. Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Jushawn Carter rolls out green fondant icing for a dummy cake she is preparing for a New York gala. Carter was 14 when she started her own business, Cakesbyfourteen. Now 17, the Atlanta high school student will be honored April 23 for her business acumen at the 25th Anniversary Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship Gala at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York. She received guidance from Youth Entrepreneurs Georgia, a high school business education program that is helping improve communities by cultivating a culture of entrepreneurship. BOB ANDRES / BANDRES@AJC.COM

Atlanta student entrepreneur a global winner

Come Tuesday, Jushawn Carter, one of this year’s Global Young Entrepreneurs, will be honored alongside 29 other teen entrepreneurs at a splashy New York City gala. It will be the opportunity of a lifetime made possible by the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, or NFTE, an international nonprofit organization dedicated to ...

  • 2:45 p.m. Thursday, April 18, 2013

Teens, young adults bear disproportionate share of STDs

In the heat of the moment, it’s a good bet that sexually transmitted infections are the last thing on a teen’s or young adult’s mind.Thus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, youths ages 15-24, who make up just over one-quarter of the sexually active population, ...

  • 7:12 p.m. Monday, April 15, 2013
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Empowering the hungry and homeless for the long term

For years, if he could find a place, George Talley made his bed in a boarding house or rented one for a week or month at a time. After serving three years as a medical specialist in the jungles of Vietnam, it was hardly the way he’d imagined his life, ...

  • 10:40 a.m. Sunday, April 14, 2013

Protect your children from identity thieves

We’re told to monitor our credit, to protect ourselves from identity theft. But who knew to apply that same wisdom to our offspring? Last year the number of identity theft victims reached 12.6 million, up 1 million from the previous year, according to a Javelin Strategy and Research Identity Fraud ...

  • 12:00 a.m. Monday, April 8, 2013
Carson Rubin, 5, of Monroe is pictured here playing with his little sister, Kendall. He is scheduled to get cochlear implants April 19 at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite.

No more static for Carson Rubin

Up until recently, years of speech therapy, patience and love powered little Carson Rubin past his disability. He could do everything his 5-year-old peers could, but it was hard to ignore the fact that he was always one step behind. “He couldn’t learn in a group setting,” said his mother, ...

  • 12:00 a.m. Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Ah-choo, it’s spring! Season brings pollen, doctor’s advice

Ahh, spring. You’re back. And although you’re much cooler than we expected, welcome. But must you always bring the oak pollen and the elm and cedar? Isn’t it enough that another unusually mild winter wrought more suffering by triggering the allergy season earlier? Ok, well, bless you, sneezes and all. ...

  • 12:00 a.m. Sunday, March 24, 2013
Angela Williams (left), founder of Voice Today, reads to Sam Owen, 3, as his mother Kelli Owen looks during a garage sale at Voice Today’s headquarters in Marietta.

Giving a VOICE to victims of childhood sexual abuse

For most of her life, Angela Williams kept the abuse to herself. There were no words for the horror and the guilt and the shame she felt. And who would believe her? In some ways it was just easier to pack it away, soothe herself with drugs and alcohol, to ...

  • 7:00 p.m. Friday, March 22, 2013
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Valerie Manley (left) reads the letter stating that her daughter, Morehouse School of Medicine class of 2013 student Charisma will spend her residency at Morehouse during the 29th Match Day ceremony at the Atlanta institution on Friday March 15th, 2013. Students, parents & family gathered at the Louis W. Sullivan National Center for Primary Care Auditorium to open their envelopes one by one to find out where they will spend their residency. At Morehouse, 50 percent of those students will enter primary care, nowhere near enough to fill the deepening shortage of the more than 16, 000 needed to meet current health care needs. Primary care includes family medicine, general internal medicine, general pediatrics, preventive medicine, geriatric medicine and osteopathic general practice. PHIL SKINNER / PSKINNER@AJC.COM editor’s note: CQ

Match Day: More than 50 percent of Georgia medical school students receive a primary care match

In some ways, the scene was reminiscent of the Academy Awards without the red carpet. There were sealed envelopes, tears, speeches and stories told in pictures. Morehouse School of Medicine students Jason Payne, Charisma Manley and 52 others broke the seals on letters that revealed where they will spend the ...

  • 12:00 a.m. Tuesday, March 19, 2013
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