Boomer's Buzz: Sunday, March 23, 2008

Posted March 23, 2008, 5:22 am by Growing Bolder


Today is Sunday, March 23, 2008. There are 283 days left in the year and 225 days left until Election Day.

Developing News:
Pope Delivers Easter Sunday Message (USA Today)
Fed's Amazing Week Brings Praise, New Scrutiny (AP)
Astronauts Successfully Complete Fifth Spacewalk (AFP)
Oldest Texan Dead at 114 (AP)

Latest Health News:
A Look into the 'Age Me Mirror' (ABC News)
Gap in Life Expectancy Widens for the Nation (NY Times)

By the Numbers:
The 10 Most Historically Inaccurate Movies (Yahoo)
10 Important Differences Betewen Brains and Computers (ScienceBlog)

Pic of the Day:
Passing The Golden Gate Bridge (Incredimazing)

Video of The Day: YouTube Video Awards: Today We Feature Two Winners. The Most Adorable and Best Original Song. First Up -- 'Chocolate Rain.'



Today's GB Birthdays:
Happy birthday to GB members bobk, Andi and Fred the Fitness Guy! Click their names to send them a birthday greeting!

Today's Celebrity Birthdays:
Comedian Marty Allen is 86. Director Mark Rydell is 74. Rock musician Ric Ocasek is 59. Basketball hall-of-famer Moses Malone is 53. Actress Amanda Plummer is 51. Actress Hope Davis is 44. Comedian John Pinette is 44. Actor Richard Grieco is 43. Actress Marin Hinkle ("Two and a Half Men") is 42.

On This Date:
In 1806: Explorers Lewis and Clark, having reached the Pacific coast, begin their journey back east.

In 1942: During World War II, the U.S. government begins moving Japanese-Americans from their West Coast homes to detention centers.

In 1965: America's first two-person space flight begins as Gemini 3 blasts off from Cape Kennedy with astronauts Virgil I. Grissom and John W. Young aboard.

In 1983: Dr. Barney Clark dies after living 112 days with a permanent artificial heart.

In 1990: Former Exxon Valdez Captain Joseph Hazelwood is sentenced by a judge in Anchorage, Alaska, to help clean up Prince William Sound and pay $50,000 in restitution for his role in the nation's worst oil spill.

In 1998: The movie "Titanic" wins 11 Academy Awards, including best picture, best director and best song, and ties the record set by 1959's "Ben-Hur." (The record will be tied again by "Lord of the Rings: Return of the King" in 2003.)

Today's Thought:
"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."
-- Mark Twain



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