Boomer's Buzz: Friday, March 14, 2008

Posted March 14, 2008, 4:07 am by Growing Bolder


Today is Friday, March 14, 2008. There are 292 days left in the year and 234 days left until Election Day.
Race For the White House:
Obama Campaign Skewers Clinton E-mail Statement (NPR)
Today on the Campaign Trail (AP)

Developing News:
Legal Cloud Hangs Over Spitzer (AP)
Could Call Girl in Spitzer Scandal Become a Star? (Reuters)
Senate, House Approve Fiscal 2009 Budget Plans (Reuters)
Iranians Vote in General Election (BBC)

Latest Health News:
U.S. Study: Popcorn Ingredient Causes Lung Cancer (Reuters)
Even a Little Exercise Improves Quality of Life (USA Today)

By the Numbers:
More Than 100 Free Places to Learn Online (missiontolearn)
20 Incredible 'Firsts' From the World of Photography (neatorama)

Pic of the Day:
Meet Kristen, The High-Priced Hooker (Smoking Gun)
The World's Craziest Fences (elitefeet)
The World's Most Beautiful Bridges (neatorama)

Video of the Day: Calendars For A Cause



Today's GB Birthdays:
Happy birthday to GB members Dionna and Roslyn Burttram! Click their names to send them a birthday greeting!

Today's Celebrity Birthdays:
Astronaut Frank Borman is 80. R&B singer Phil Phillips is 77. Record producer Quincy Jones is 75. Actor Michael Caine is 75. Director Wolfgang Petersen is 67. Actor Steve Kanaly is 62. Comedian Billy Crystal is 61. Country singer Jann Browne is 54. Monaco's Prince Albert is 50. Actress Tamara Tunie is 49.

On This Date:
In 1879: Albert Einstein, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist and one of the great thinkers of the ages, is born.

In 1942: John Bumstead and Orvan Hess become the first in the world to successfully treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin.

In 1959: Elvis Presley makes the Billboard album chart with "For LP Fans Only." It is the first LP ever issued without the artist's name anywhere on the cover -- front or back.

In 1964: Jack Ruby is found guilty by a jury in Dallas, Texas for the murder of President John F. Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald.

In 1964: Billboard Magazine reports that Beatle records have claimed 60 percent of the U.S. singles market.

In 1967: The body of President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.

In 1995: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American to enter space aboard a Russian rocket as he and two cosmonauts blast off aboard a Soyuz spacecraft, headed for the Mir space station.

Today's Thought:
"Happiness is not by chance, but by choice."
-- Jim Rohn



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