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On The "Nappalachia" Trail

Here, in the pleasant 60-degree coolness of a “wine cave” set into the hillside, he shows off the high-tech instruments of his trade: enormous stainless steel tanks holding still-fragrant crushed grapes from the 13 acres of vines on the 197-acre…

Real Science, Real Impact

  “At a time when statewide employment shrunk – and this has been the worst economic stretch I’ve seen in my lifetime – biotech and life sciences actually grew through the recession,” says Jeff Humphreys, director of the Selig Center,…

New Direction, New Name

  In the graphic imagination of Dr. Ricardo Azziz, inky, stippled people with forlorn postures merge with fantastic landscapes, an army of ants crawls over a yellow field, tree branches sprout human hands clutching umbrellas, and a faceless man cowers…

Good Sports

  From the Golden Isles of Georgia to the red carpet at the 2011 ESPY Awards in Los Angeles, Morgan Brian has been recognized as the best female high school soccer player in the nation. Never mind that Brian hails…

New Leadership, New Energy

Georgia Trend’s editors talked to Gov. Deal in his office at the Capitol last summer, in a wide-ranging interview that touched on immigration, water, education, ethics, criminal justice, tax reform and economic development.   Since the interview, the 11th Circuit…

Georgia's Banking Landscape

“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.” It originates with 16th century Dutch philosopher Desiderius Erasmus. But it’s also a lyric from the Tom Waits song, Singapore, and a line from the Steven Spielberg film, Minority…

Georgia's Top 100 Public Companies

By the numbers, Georgia’s largest public companies showed a definite im-provement in the most recent fiscal year, but there was little cheering among corporate chief executives and stockholders.   Georgia Trend’s listing of the state’s top 100 public companies, by…