Takeouts: cold snap hurts crops, listeners on internships

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Winter Weather: Bo Herndon, vegetable grower from Toombs County, Georgia, and president of the Georgia Fruit and Vegetable Growers’ Association, talks about the potentially devastating impact of this week’s freeze on his crop of onions, cabbages, and sweet corn.

Listener Takeout: Many listeners called and wrote after yesterday’s story on internships; our work contributor, Beth Kobliner, calls in to answer some of your questions and lists off the best sites to go to for adult internships. They include: weddles.com, vault.com, careerbuilder.com, craigslist.org, wowowow.com

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