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09 August1999
In Today's Issue
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1. A Word A Day -- bacchant
2. Graphic of the Day -- Mai Tai - 1983
3. Reading List -- Serious as a heart attack
4. HotSites -- Mutual Funds and Whackiness
5. Campaign 2000
6. On this Day - Land grab from Creeks and we dropped another
Big One
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1. A Word A Day
bacchant (buh-KANT, -KAHNT, BAK-uhnt) noun (plural bacchants or bacchantes)
1. A priest or votary of Bacchus.
2. A boisterous reveler.
[Latin bacchans, bacchant-,present participle of bacchari, to celebrate
the festival of Bacchus, from Bacchus (the god of wine and of an orgiastic
religion celebrating the power and fertility of nature, also called Dionysus)
from Greek Bakkhos.]
"In 1875 Fort Calgary was established by the Mounties to quell
that (liquor) trade, but judging by the merrymaking and blind
staggers of the rampaging bacchants visible nightly throughout
the Games, the Mounties failed in their mission."
Robert F. Jones, Olympics: Blowin' Hot And Gold, Life, 1 Apr 1988.
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>From A Word A Day:
http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/
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2. Graphic of the Day -- Mai Tai -- 1983
Mai Tai -- before she was to become the incarnation of Beelzebub
by David J. L'Hoste
http://lhostelaw.com/ia/ia2/gotd/83maitai.htm
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GOTD Archive: http://lhostelaw.com/iaa/ia_graphics.htm
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3. Reading List -- GINA KOLATA
August 6, 1999
Death Rates From Cardiovascular Disease
Reported Down 60 Percent Since 1950
By GINA KOLATA
Death rates from cardiovascular diseases have plummeted by 60
percent since 1950, a federal agency is announcing Friday,
indicating that the advance against the leading killer of Americans has
been one of the major public health achievements of the 20th century.
It has been known for years that death rates from heart attacks and
strokes have been falling. But this report, in summarizing trends over a
century, dramatically illustrated what has been accomplished, experts
said.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in Friday's issue of
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report that deaths from strokes have
declined steadily since the beginning of the century while those from heart
disease peaked in the 1960s and have been falling ever since. If the heart
attack death rate from 1963 had prevailed in 1996, the report said, an
additional 621,000 Americans would have died in 1996 alone.
In 1950, for example, the death rate from heart disease was 307.4 per
100,000 people. In 1996, it was 134.6. In 1950, the stroke death rate
per 100,000 people was 88.8. In 1996, it was 26.5.
The decline "is stunning," said Dr. Gilbert Omenn, a public health expert
who is executive vice president for medical affairs at the University of
Michigan. "It is a true success story of grand proportions."
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Full Story:
http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/080699sci-cardio-deaths.html
From the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com
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4. HotSites -- Mutual Funds and Whackiness
Quicken.com
http://www.quicken.com/investments/mutualfunds/
Mutual Fund Magazine
http://www.mfmag.com/
Exploding Whale
http://www.perp.com/whale/
Montana's Original Testicle Festival
http://www.testyfesty.com/
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HotSites Archive: http://lhostelaw.com/iaa/ia_hs.htm
Another: http://lhostelaw.com/ia/ia2/hot_archive.htm
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5. Campaign 2000
AUGUST 16, 1999 VOL. 154 NO. 7
When Sweet Talk Falls Flat
So far, Bradley's race pitch isn't
winning black votes
BY ERIC POOLEY
Arguing against welfare reform in August 1999 is
a bit like arguing against the Apollo moon shot in
August 1969. The Eagle has landed, and the
naysayers appear to be on the wrong side of
history. But at least one of them remains
unmoved by the news--because nobody loves a
lonely, principled fight more than Bill Bradley.
Before he left the Senate in 1996, Bradley voted
against the landmark welfare bill. Today Al Gore's
lone challenger for the Democratic nomination is
still speaking out against that reform. Welfare is
"a disastrous system," Bradley recently told
TIME, "but the way to deal with it is federal
commitment and state experimentation, not the
Federal Government washing its hands [of the
problem]." Holding that view requires courage. In
a survey commissioned by the G.O.P., 60% of
those polled said they were less likely to vote for
Bradley after hearing his position on welfare. If
there's anyplace in America where people still
swoon over that kind of rhetoric, you'd think it
would be the annual convention of Jesse
Jackson's Rainbow/Push Coalition.
Think again. . .
Full Story
http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,29199,00.html
From Time Magazine
http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/
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6. Land grab from Creeks and we dropped another Big One
On August 9, 1814, Major General Andrew Jackson
signed the Treaty of Fort Jackson ending the Creek War.
The agreement provided for the surrender of twenty-three
million acres of Creek land to the United States. This vast
territory encompassed more than half of present-day
Alabama and part of southern Georgia.
The war had begun on August 30, 1813, when a faction of
Creeks known as the Red Sticks attacked a contingent of
553 American settlers at Lake Tensaw, Alabama, north of
Mobile. In response, Jackson led 5,000 militiamen in the
destruction of two Creek villages, Tallasahatchee and
Talladega.
On March 27, 1814, Jackson's forces destroyed the
Creek defenses at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. Eight
hundred Creek warriors were killed and 500 women and
children captured.
Tensions between the frontier settlers and the Creeks had
been brewing since the Revolutionary era. During the years
preceding the Creek War, the Continental Congress received
numerous reports on the status of Indian affairs in the South.
The following excerpt, from a 1787 report, identifies settler
greed as a major cause of the conflict:
"An avaricious disposition in some of our people to acquire
large tracts of land, and often by unfair means, appears
to be the principal source of difficulties with the
Indians . . . various pretences seem to be set up by the
white people for making those settlements, which the
Indians, tenacious of their rights, appear to be determined
to oppose."
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From American Memory section of the Library of Congress site:
http://lcweb.loc.gov/index.html
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On August 9, 1945, three days after the
atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, the
United States exploded a nuclear device over
Nagasaki, killing an estimated 74,000 people.
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From the N.Y. Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/990809onthisday.html
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Table of Contents
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19 August 1999
In Today's Issue
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1. A Word A Day -- tar baby
2. Graphic of the Day -- Randy and Scott, then and then
3. Reading List -- Are bra straps in and Dave out?
4. HotSites -- Miscellany
5. Campaign 2000 -- Drugs anyone?
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1. A Word A Day
tar baby (tahr BAY-bee) noun
A situation or problem from which it is virtually impossible
to disentangle oneself.
[After "Bre'r Rabbit and the Tar Baby," (1879) an Uncle Remus story by
Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908).]
"Before Johnson fell for the tar baby of Vietnam, Americans
believed their Presidents almost always told them the truth."
Lance Morrow, Nation: The Whole World Was Watching When the
Democrats Last Convened in Chicago, The War Broke Out at Home,
Time, 26 Aug 1996.
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>From A Word A Day:
http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/
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2. Graphic of the Day -- Randy and Scott
Randy and Scott, then and then
by David J. L'Hoste
http://lhostelaw.com/ia/ia2/gotd/99ranscotage.htm
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GOTD Archive: http://lhostelaw.com/iaa/ia_graphics.htm
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3. Reading List -- Are bra straps in and Dave out?
BRA STRAPS ARE WAY COOL!
After cropping up in New York and Los Angeles several years
ago, the exposed strap has become a national phenomenon among
under-30 women, fashion experts say. It's a look that young people
variously praise as comfortable and feminine, in-your-face cute and
alluring.
http://www.latimes.com/CNS_DAYS/990817/t000073234.html
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DAVE DIMINISHING
Viewers are deserting the 'Late Show.' Can Letterman survive
the night?
By Paul Farhi
Washington Post Staff Writer
Is he too cranky? Too ironic? Too . . . Dave?
Increasingly, there's reason to wonder. David Letterman is slipping, sliding,
flailing. It's no longer Jay vs. Dave in the late-night TV battle. That's
over.
Leno's "Tonight Show" has beaten Letterman's "Late Show" in the Nielsen
ratings in 200 of the past 205 weeks, or for almost four consecutive years.
Nowadays, Letterman finishes well behind Ted Koppel's "Nightline" at
11:35. He's even wheezing to stay ahead of Conan O'Brien's talk show,
which starts at the red-eye hour of 12:35 a.m.
Since Letterman's vaunted switch from NBC to CBS in 1993, "Late
Show" has shed nearly double-digit hunks of its audience every year. This
past season, the number of people watching "Late Show" shrank by
another 10 percent. Which means Letterman now attracts an audience that
is less than half the size of the one he started with on CBS.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPcap/1999-08/13/025r-081399-idx.html
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DEFENDANT SANCTIONED FOR TELEPHONING JURORS
Man made the calls after guilty verdict
By Shelley Murphy, Globe Staff, 08/18/99
Two hours after she voted last week to convict Peter Simonelli
of fraud, juror Wendy Sandstedt got a phone call at home.
''Wendy, it's Peter Simonelli,'' the caller said. ''I just want
to find out howyou could think this of me. I want you to know
I'm not mad.''
Sandstedt said she was terrified.
''I looked out the window, expecting to see him with a cell
phone, like in a orror movie,'' said Sandstedt, a health care
consultant from Somerville. ''I ouldn't talk and I couldn't
hang up the phone.''
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/230/metro/Defendant_sanctioned_for_telephoning_jurors-.shtml
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4. HotSites -- Miscellany
NOVA Online - Great stuff from the PBS show.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/
Digital Journalism at it best. From the ultra-heavy stuff,
like Kosovo, to the lighter side -- sports art and the last
days of Seinfeld. Great photos with video and audio clips to boot.
http://digitaljournalist.org/contents.html
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HotSites Archive: http://lhostelaw.com/iaa/ia_hs.htm
Another: http://lhostelaw.com/ia/ia2/hot_archive.htm
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5. Campaign 2000
Candidates Answers to Drug Question
Filed at 8:06 a.m. EDT
By The Associated Press
The presidential campaigns were asked Wednesday if the
candidates had ever used illegal drugs and whether they
believed that the question is appropriate.
Their responses:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/p/AP-Drugs-2000.html
From: The New Tork Times
http://www.nytimes.com
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