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04 January 2001
Happy Tamil Thai Pongal Day in Sri Lanka
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In Today's Issue
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1. A Word A Day -- eponym
2. Graphics of the Day -- Isla Mujeres Sunrise 1981
3. QOTD -- Robert Morgan
4. HotSites -- Miscellany
5. Reading List -- Deforestation of Tropical Rain Forests
6. Weird News -- Elephant Tramples Man And Keeps the Corpse
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1. A Word A Day
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eponym (EP-uh-nim) noun
1. A person, real or imaginary, from whom something,
as a tribe, nation, or place, takes or is said to
take its name.
2. A word based on or derived from a person's name.
3. Any ancient official whose name was used to
designate his year of office.
[Back formation from eponymous, from Greek epxnymos giving name.]
"H.J. Russell & Co.
Why is the new president of this diversified service firm in Atlanta
already making plans against the day when its 58-year-old founder,
eponym, and CEO retires?"
Carol Davenport, Fortune People: On the Rise, Fortune, 23 Oct 1989.
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2. Graphics of the Day - Isla Mujeres Sunrise 1981
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Isla Mujeres Sunrise 1981
by David J. L'Hoste
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3. QOTD - Robert Morgan
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Girdling
Quicker than the felling of trees,
a single ringing of the bark
aboveground opened a wild grove
the first summer of settlement.
As buds dried up, the sap thread cut,
sun touched virgin forest floor.
Corn planted in hills not rows stretched
faster than briars or weeds. Feeding
on centuries of leafmold, the stalks
reached up among the dying limbs
before tasseling. By dog days
the girdled acres brimmed with corn
and nettles, honeysuckle vines.
By the next spring rotting twig-ends
and little branches peppered down
on the plowed ground. And by the third
year whole sheaths of bark dropped like shields
of a defeated army on
the hearth of cultivation. In five
years the standing trunks looked like stones
and statues in a graveyard as
crops rose and fell with the season.
In a decade the woods were gone.
Robert Morgan
Topsoil Road
Louisiana State University Press
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4. HOTSITES - Miscellany
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Financial Times Global Archive
"The global archive is a unique free source containing
over 10 million articles from 2000 publications. The
news database is updated on a 24 / 7 basis from selected
international publishers and agencies. Search the 5 year
archive of the Financial Times Newspaper as well as
archives of European, Asian and American business sources."
http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/
REDeSEARCH, new MetaSearch Engine:
http://www.redesearch.com/
(Editor's Note: Google still rules.)
@brint.com
"The Premier Business and Technology Knowledge Portal
and Global Community Network for E-Business,
Information, Technology, and Knowledge Management."
http://www.brint.com/
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5. Reading List - Deforestation of Tropical Rain Forests
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The deforestation of tropical rain forests is a threat
to life worldwide. Deforestation may have profound
effects on global climate and cause the extinction of
thousands of species annually. Stopping deforestation
in the tropics has become an international movement,
seeking ways to stop the loss of rain forests.
Because the loss of rain forests is driven by a complex
group of factors, the solutions are equally complex.
Simple solutions that do not address the complex nature
of world economics and rain forest ecology have little
chance of succeeding. The future requires solutions
based in solving the economic crises of countries
holding rain forests, as well as improvement of the
living conditions of the poor people often responsible
for deforestation.
Full Article:
http://www.bsrsi.msu.edu/rfrc/deforestation.html
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6. Weird News - Elephant Tramples Man
And Keeps the Corpse
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Tuesday January 2 10:15 AM ET
GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - A wild elephant pulled a
man down from a tree, trampled him to death and for two
weeks has refused to part with the corpse, police in
northeast India say.
The man climbed the tree to escape a herd of wild
elephants rampaging through his village about 80 miles
from Guwahati, the largest city in Assam.
One elephant grabbed him, pulled him to the ground and
broke his legs.
"The elephant must have got even more irritated as the
villagers were trying to free the man," a forest
ranger said Sunday. "It trampled him to death and took
the body along with him."
That was two weeks ago and it has been carrying the
body around ever since, police said.
From Yahoo! Oddly Enough News:
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23 January 2001
On this day in 638: the start of Islamic calendar
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In Today's Issue
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1. A Word A Day -- dotty
2. Graphics of the Day -- Marc Jean L'Hoste
3. QOTD -- R.L. Rasha
4. HotSites -- Lazy search/surf
5. QOTD II -- Clooney at the Golden Globe Awards
6. Weird News -- Missing Tourist Found Barefoot in Wood
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dotty (DOT-ee) adjective
1. Mentally unbalanced; crazy. Amusingly eccentric or unconventional.
Ridiculous or absurd.
2. Having a feeble or unsteady gait; shaky.
3. Obsessively infatuated or enamored.
[Probably alteration of Scots dottle, silly, from Middle English
doten, to dote.]
"Woodward and Holm play Martha and Abbey, the dotty old
sisters who serve elderberry wine laced with poison to
unsuspecting tea-time visitors, then bury the stiffs
in their basement."
Robert Osborne, Baldwin serves up his staged readings
with taste of `Arsenic', Hollywood Reporter, Nov 1, 2000.
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2. Graphics of the Day - Marc Jean L'Hoste
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Marc Jean L'Hoste(my nephew)
by David J. L'Hoste
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3. QOTD - R.L. Rasha
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In the Middle of My Life
Along rolling hills, just south of the Ozark foothills.
Running in the cold wind of Texas, with the tawny-
colored grasses playing dead beneath your aching feet;
remembering where you ran with a gang of young friends
and hound dog across the prairie near the white rock
cliffs and riverine oak and mesquite forests along the
trickling creek beds, chasing after armadillos, and
your boyfriend, who looked like James Dean, finally
caught one and you were breathlessly amazed and in love
so in love with all the molecules that comprised that
moment surrounded by these dear sparkling innocent
bright lights in frosty wool jackets that made you
laugh until your sides ached, rolling down the dead-
grass hills like stiff logs, playing king of the hill,
piling up on each other in a giggling teenage
heap...and someone stands and breaks out in a crisp,
clear song. It is all here, etched in me like carvings
on an aging tree, in my side, in my knee.
I am grown up now.
And then, these incredible children, they are, now, so
tall, racing beyond your wildest dreams, soaring by you
in illustrious streaks of golden-green-red-orange-
violet-diamond white light, way past you...out of
sight; and, then...their children. And you are in dumb-
struck wonderment. Can I tell you, "You are my Pride
and Joy!"
And your folks and their siblings, and their treasured
friends, your godparents: all your guardian angels with
deepest love for you that began before you were born
with love among each other, love of your parents and
their parents. And now with their precious wrinkled
smiles in the prairies, in the tropics in Flamingo pink
buildings in the fiery sunset, with their arms
stretched out for you telling you how they love you in
the long, pink shadows, in the cold, still moment when
your heart is so warm it could burst, for now you
finally understand that this love is all that matters,
and they don't want you to say goodbye. And I won't say
goodbye, no, I never will.
R.L. Rasha
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4. HOTSITES - Lazy search/surf
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http://www.excite.com/search/voyeur/
The Search Voyeur continuously displays actual searches
that people are doing on Excite. If you'd like to see
the results for a particular search, click on it.
http://brainblitz.com/humor/dailyfun/voyeur/
Several other Search Voyeur engines.
http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/mkgray/autopilot.html
Tired of the excessive effort required by clicking all
the time? Wrists beginning to show signs of CTS from
all this web browsing? Too addicted to stop though?
Well, Mkgray is proud to announce Web Autopilot.
Random surfing of the WWW.
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5. QOTD II -- Clooney at the Golden Globe Awards
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"I'm very proud to be part of any film [the Coen brothers] do,
although they aren't really brothers. That's a lie. And while
we're confessing, I'm the illegitimate love child of John
Ashcroft. I want that out there." -- actor George Clooney,
during his acceptance speech at the Golden Globe Awards,
after winning the prize for best actor in a musical or
comedy for Ethan and Joel Coen's "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"
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6. Weird News - Missing Tourist Found Barefoot in Woods
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Monday January 22 9:43 AM ET
Missing Tourist Found Barefoot in Woods
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - A 59-year-old woman who
disappeared five weeks ago while on vacation in
Patagonia was found living barefoot in a wood,
apparently suffering from amnesia, police said on
Friday.
Lucila Aurora Zapaterio was discovered sheltering under
wild grass 17 miles (26 km) from the southern Argentina
mountain resort of Bariloche from where she disappeared
on Dec. 12.
She was taken to a hospital suffering from malnutrition
and cuts to her feet.
"She was found in an area of woodland and had made a
type of refuge among the wild grass," policeman Carlos
Arias told Reuters. ``She seems to have lost her
memory. She said her name, but could not remember why
she was there, how she got there or what she was
doing," he said.
"She was walking around barefoot, carrying her shoes
in a bag. We don't know how she survived or what she
had been eating."
The woman faces more than curious questions from
police. In her absence, the hotel she stayed at sued
her for $1,000 in unpaid bills, charges she will have
to answer in court.
Her discovery came only weeks after a man was found
wandering lost in the Andean wilderness after surviving
alone for 47 days drinking only water.
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