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J. Frank McGill, affectionally known throughout the Georgia agricultural community as “Mr. Peanut,” passed away surrounded by family on March 3 at age 95 in Tifton, Georgia. He earned a bachelor’s degree in agronomy in 1951 and a master’s degree in agronomy in 1962 from the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. He began his career with UGA as a county Extension agent in southwest Georgia and later became the state’s Extension peanut specialist. McGill worked at the Coastal Plain Experiment Station — now known as the UGA Tifton ...

University of Georgia College of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences J. Frank McGill, affectionally known throughout the Georgia agricultural community as “Mr. Peanut,” passed away surrounded by family on March 3 at age 95 in Tifton, Georgia. He earned a bachelor’s degree in agronomy in 1951 and a master’s degree in agronomy in 1962 from the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. He began his career with UGA as a county Extension agent in southwest Georgia and later became the state’s Extension peanut specialist. McGill worked at the Coastal Plai...

Last week, wolf blitzer spoke with harry reid about u.s. efforts in afghanistan. listen. >> are you confident this is going to work in the end in afghanistan? it looks like a mess over there. >> i am not confident it is going to work. i am happy to say that general petraeus in the room next door, he thinks things are going well. i have great respect for him. i hope it is going well. the american people and rightfully so have a very short attention span. we can not continue to keep dumping this money. >> into afghanistan, he means. congressman, ron paul, joins us by phone. thank you for joining...

Apartment. now our "daily dose" of health news. let's talk peanuts. you can still get a pack of them on most planes. you know those little packets. last year the department of transportation offered all kinds of ideas to protect people with peanut allergies. one option was a total peanut ban. but the government says there is actually a 12-year-old law that blocks them from tampering with the peanut policy. some airlines have their own rules. some no longer serve peanuts. and others say they might set up peanut-free zones, but the government cannot force the airlines to stop handing out those...

Thought it was a grit line, i no longer hope for audacity. >> so rather than be discurrently discourag discouraged, i hope everybody is willing to double down and work even harder. regardless of your political affiliation, you've got to be involved, especially the young people here. your generation. if you don't give us a shove, if you don't give the system a push, it's just not going to change. >> reporter: so you heard the pitch from the president right there. he realizes, obviously, that the youth vote was a key fuel for him in 2008. he's going to need them again in 2012. his former campaig...