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THIS TIME IT’S PERSONNEL: City Council unanimously passes an ordinance requiring the mayor to get its approval before making additions or reductions to the city’s personnel, the latest in an ongoing melodrama between the council and mayor.

DEER IN HEADLINES: A six-legged deer found in Rome, Ga., is understandably popular.

BUSH: Went down to Georgia.

CHILDRESS: Hawks’ restricted free agent is considering an offer to play in Greece.

RIGHT TO AIR ARMS? U.S. House Homeland Security Committee chairman doesn’t think we should have guns at the airport.

ROCK DRUMMERS: Require at least as much physical endurance as soccer players, according to a recent British study that used Blondie drummer Clem Burke as its test subject.

LOOKS GOOD ON PAPER: Researchers and companies like Xerox are backing away from utopian visions of a paperless society that became popular in the late 20th century, using the phrase “paper-less” instead to focus on the more pragmatic, but less glamorous, goal of simply not wasting as much paper as we do now.

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The city’s stand on no guns at the Hartsfield/Jackson Airport — despite a new state law that seems to allow folks to carry guns up until the security check point — has not only garnered national press. It has caught the attention of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, the organization founded by former Reagan Press Secretary James Brady.

Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign, issued the following statement:

“I want to praise the sensible managers at Atlanta’s Hartsfield International Airport, for putting public safety first in declaring yesterday that they will strenuously enforce the firearms rule in that facility. These public servants are doing their job and should be congratulated for that.

“The Atlanta airport is one of the busiest in the world. Seven years ago, our nation learned what can happen when airport security is breached. None of us will ever forget the consequences.

“The gun lobby leaders in Georgia should be ashamed of themselves for being willing to trade on our nation’s safety for the purposes of advancing their extremist agenda.”

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