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Sipping Snake Blood in U.S.-Thai Boot Camp

United States Marines take part in a jungle survival exercise in Chonburi province on Wednesday. A hundred U.S. and Thai soldiers swapped skills on how to survive in a tropical forest at a Thai Navy base 90 miles or 145 kilometers east of Bangkok. Thai soldiers showed U.S. Marines how to catch a cobra with their bare hands and how to find water in the jungle as well as drinking snake blood to survive.
 

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Maynard Jackson's daughter to perform at Atlanta Jazz Fest this weekend

Jazz vocalist Alexandra Jackson will be gracing the main stage at the festival her father established.

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Boy Scouts approve plan to accept openly gay boys

Atlantans react to Boy Scout decision on gay scouts

Interviews with several Atlanta area Scout leaders found that most leaned against lifting the ban on gay Scouts and more strongly opposed accepting gay leaders

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Church and State? One metro county moves all graduations out of churches

In a break from past years, all 26 DeKalb high school commencements are in secular venues this year

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