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Incredible: feeding, housing, doctoring, financing rural Nicaragua

Friday, March 14th, 2008

I began to write this on a flight from Managua back to Houston, after 3 days with Keith Jaspers, founder/president of http://RainbowNetwork.org/, and Rev. Mel West, a retired pastor who introduced my family to Rainbow Network 8 or 10 years ago.

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Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Monday, January 21st, 2008

As we in the U.S. observe a holiday in honor of Rev. King, I recall the night I stood a few feet from him and listened in awe.

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Derivation of "Karl Z. Wog" (thanks to M.I.T.)

Sunday, September 2nd, 2007

As a teen-aged amateur radio operator (“ham”), I had call sign K3SGM in Maryland and W0HHG in Missouri. I had a rubber address stamp that read “Charles H. Sauer W0HHG”, and used the stamp routinely. When I used it to stamp my return address on an admissions application to M.I.T., the response was addressed to “Charles H. S. Wohhg”. (I was admitted, but decided to go to Carleton College, instead.)

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