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1. A Word A Day -- misogamy
2. Reading List -- Picasso and Peter Rabbit
3. Quote of the Day -- William Stafford
4. Humor -- Ghandi
5. Graphic of the Day -- Poplarville
6. HotSite -- World History
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1. A Word A Day
misogamy (mi-SOG-uh-mee) noun
1. Hatred of marriage.
2. John F. Whitney
"Unfortunately, Coward couldn't resist a bit of `socially acceptable'
misogamy. The domestic violence at the end of the second act was a bit
unsettling, the more so because so many in the audience found it amusing.
Goff, Nadine, `Private Lives' Needs Something of Jump Start,
Wisconsin State Journal, 7 Jan 1995.
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From A Word A Day:
http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/
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2. Reading List -- Picasso and Peter Rabbit
Review of Picasso Ceramic show with 2 online slide
shows. From the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/library/arts/030599picasso-pottery.html
By ROBERTA SMITH
NEW YORK -- You should have fun with the exhibition of Picasso's
ceramic work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Picasso certainly
seems to have enjoyed carving this particular notch in his cane
of art medium conquests. That he did so during one of the
happiest periods of his life may partly account for the unclouded
lightness of these charming figures, wittily decorated plates,
casseroles, pitchers, masks and glazed-tile paintings. Perhaps
the second-class status traditionally accorded ceramics had a
soporific effect, contributing to the air of genius on holiday,
veering in and out of focus, that permeates this show.
http://www.nytimes.com/library/arts/030599picasso-pottery.html
"The Tale of Peter Rabbit" online:
http://www.tcom.ohiou.edu/books/kids/beatrix/p1.htm
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From Teacher's Assistant
http://www.sodamail.com
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3. Quote of the Day -- William Stafford
Places with Meaning
Say it's a picnic on the Fourth of July
and all of those usual at the end of the day are there.
While they look at each other they become old,
and from the dark wood of evening a heron
rows forward across the path of sky left
in the west, through the still air.
All of my life I have noticed these appropriate landscapes
where events find their equivalent forms: oftentimes
I see trees hunching their shoulders, leaning toward me,
because in the past I have neglected what I should have done;
or a dog hurries forward to lick some hands, and all
at once I see how frightening: they are mine.
There are people who always belong wherever Earth brings
them and gives them over to the practices of the wind;
more slowly, but caught in the same pressure, the rest of us
too, by the end of our days, learn to lean forward
out of our lives to find that what passes has molded
everything we touch or see, outside or in.
William Stafford
The Way It Is:
New & Selected Poems
Graywolf Press
"Places with Meaning" copyright © 1998 by the
Estate of William Stafford.
All Rights Reserved.
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4. Humor -- Ghandi
Mahatma Ghandi walked barefoot everywhere, to the point that his feet
became quite thick and hard. He also was quite a spiritual person.Even
when he was not on a hunger strike, he did not eat much and became quite
thin and frail. Furthermore, due to his diet, he wound up with very bad breath.
Therefore: he came to be known as a...
"Super calloused fragile mystic plagued with halitosis."
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From subscriber Katherine Smith
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5. Graphic of the Day -- Poplarville, MS 1984
Poplarville, MS 1984
by David J. L'Hoste
http://lhostelaw.com/ia/ia2/gotd/poplarville.htm
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6. HotSite -- World History
Comprehensive chronological guide to historical resources.
Contains two exhaustive sections of links for each
historical period, the first section dealing with people,
places, events, and resources, and the second covering
art, music, drama, literature, daily life, and culture.
More than 2,300 annotated and/or rated links are
included.
http://history.evansville.net/index.html
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1. A Word A Day -- picante
2. Graphic of the Day -- Great Blue Herons
3. Quote of the Day -- Groucho
4. Cool Fact of the Day -- Oil-spitting bird
5. HotSites -- Electronic Texts
6. Reading List -- "regenerative medicine"
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1. A Word A Day
picante (pi-KAN-tay) adjective
Prepared in such a way as to be spicy; having a sauce typically
containing tomatoes, onions, peppers, vinegar, and other condiments.
[Spanish, present participle of picar, to bite, prick.]
"This picante black bean pizza dip can be prepared in advance, then popped
into the oven before kickoff and positioned within easy reach of the
spectators."
Super Bowl Menu Takes a Hot Dip, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 25 Jan 1993.
This week's theme: pi words to mark Pi Day (March 14).
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From A Word A Day:
http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/
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2. Graphic of the Day -- Great Blue Herons
Cut paper image of Great Blue Herons (1993)
by Denise F. L'Hoste
http://lhostelaw.com/ia/ia2/gotd/gbh_dfl.htm
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3. Quote of the Day -- Groucho
"Those are my principles, and if you don't
like them... well, I have others."
--Groucho Marx (1890-1977)
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4. Cool Fact of the Day -- Oil-spitting bird
Oil-spitting bird
It is best to keep well clear of the nests of the fulmar, a seabird that is
capable of spitting a foul-smelling, yellowish oil at nest intruders. The oil
comes from the bird's stomach. The bird can send the oil as far as 1.5
meters (5 feet) with great accuracy.
Fulmars are related to albatrosses and petrels, in the order
Procellariiformes. Most birds in this group produce stomach oil and feed
it to their young, but only the fulmar spits it at intruders.
Even when they are not spitting oil, fulmars and their close relatives are
malodorous creatures. Every part of the bird emits a strong, musky odor,
even the eggs. Giant petrel egg shells that have been in a museum for 100
years still smell.
The northern fulmar's habitat stretches from the Arctic to regions as far
south as England, California, and Japan:
http://rainbow.ldgo.columbia.edu/edf/info/dist/fulmar/
A research paper about fulmars:
http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/Entomology/courses/en570/papers_1998/
skinner.html
--
From the Learning Kingdom:
http://www.LearningKingdom.com/
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5. HotSites -- Electronic Texts
Alex: Catalog of Electronic
Texts on the Internet:
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/alex/
Project Gutenberg:
http://promo.net/pg/
Electronic Text Center
(University of Virginia):
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/
Online Book Initiative:
gopher://gopher.std.com/11/obi/book
The Online Book Page:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/books.html
Oxford Text Archive:
http://firth.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/ota/public/index.shtml
1st Books Library:
http://www.1stbooks.com/
OminMedia Digital Publishing
Links to Electronic Texts:
http://www.awa.com/library/omnimedia/links.html
Project Bartleby:
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/
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6. Reading List -- "regenerative medicine"
From the Washington Post:
The Revolution Within
By David Ignatius
Monday, March 8, 1999
What will people die from 100 years from now? If you think that's a simple
question, you haven't been paying attention to the revolution that's taking
place in biotechnology.
"Death will come mainly from accidents, murder or war," predicts William
Haseltine, chief executive of Human Genome Sciences Inc., a local
biotechnology firm. He says that with the tools of "regenerative medicine"
that will become available in the 21st century, the human body should last a
very long time, if not forever. Today's leading killers -- heart disease,
cancer, Alzheimer's and the "aging process" itself -- will become distant
memories of the species.
In discussions of technological change, the Internet gets most of the
attention these days. But the transformation beginning in medicine could be
the real techno-event of our era.
Take the question of mortality, surely the number one concern of
humankind since our brains developed the ability to contemplate our
eventual demise. Until recently, scientists were sure that our basic cellular
material eventually would wear out. Whatever advances might come in the
treatment of cancer or heart disease, it was thought, this cellular lifespan
couldn't be stretched much beyond 120 years.
But Haseltine and others say these upper limits will be shattered by new
kinds of medical therapy. Take our basic organs, such as the heart, liver,
lungs and brain. Sometime between 2050 and 2100, medicine will have
advanced to the point at which every 10 years or so, people will be able to
take a regenerative dose of "stem cells" that can restore the various organs.
These stem cells, the basic building blocks of life, will build new heart and
lung cells -- in much the same way our bodies routinely make new skin
cells to replace what's bruised or worn away.
"We will molt like lobsters," replacing tired old cells with vigorous new
ones, predicts Haseltine, a prominent scientist who once headed the
biochemical pharmacology lab at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.
If something goes wrong with one of our organs despite these stem-cell
cocktails, then 21st century medicine will repair or replace the damage.
Today we implant clunky artificial knees and hips, but by late in the 21st
century we'll be able to fabricate replicas of human organs, using
biocompatible materials engineered down to the tolerance of a single atom.
The list of these micro-prosthetic devices runs from artificial veins to
eardrums and retinas -- even to artificial memory, stored in chips that will
be built like neurons.
The beginnings of this future are on display along the I-270 corridor in
Rockville, where biotech companies are sprouting like cultures in a petri
dish. Haseltine's company, Human Genome Sciences, operates a
robot-driven assembly line there -- which makes the old biology lab look
as dated as a coach-and-buggy shop.
In one wing, rows of machines do the once-laborious job of identifying (or
"sequencing") strands of DNA. A few years ago, the first generation of
these machines could analyze 36 lanes of DNA, two times a day. This
generation can handle 96 lanes, four times a day. And the next generation,
still packed in wooden crates in the lab, will double or triple that speed.
Human Genome Sciences has tested about 2 million gene fragments and
from these has isolated what it believes are about 120,000 different genes.
They're stored in forbidding gray freezers, at about 120 degrees below
zero. Of these, about 12,000 appear to be critical "signaling molecules"
that stimulate other cells to grow, change or die -- and thus have special
value as potential drugs.
The company now is testing these 12,000 signalers against other kinds of
cells, to see which ones trigger action in particular kinds of tissue.
On the day I visited, they were testing the signalers against "dendritic" cells,
sentinels for the body's immune system. It will take a week to test all
12,000, and when they're done, the HGS scientists will know which ones
stimulate the immune system -- and thus have new leads for possible drugs.
Using this automated discovery process, Haseltine's company has
produced three potential drugs that started clinical trials a year ago. One
helps protect bone marrow cells from the effects of chemotherapy; another
helps skin and other tissue recover quickly from burns, wounds or
chemotherapy; a third helps regenerate blood vessels. All are based on the
body's natural repair mechanisms. Even if the trials are successful, the
drugs won't be available commercially for another two to four years.
"Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return." That ancient
admonition was repeated in churches around the world a few weeks ago,
on Ash Wednesday. It is at once exhilarating and horrifying to imagine that
science may be altering this most basic condition of human existence.
Many technical obstacles still must be crossed on the way to this amazing
future, but Haseltine may be right when he says, "This is the first time we
can conceive human immortality."
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1. A Word A Day -- algolagnia
2. Graphic of the Day -- Belize Boat
3. Quote of the Day -- Dave Barry
4. Cool Fact of the Day -- frigatebirds
5. HotSites -- miscellany
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1. A Word A Day
algolagnia (algoe-LAG-nee-uh) noun
Sexual gratification derived from inflicting or experiencing pain.
[New Latin : algo- + Greek lagneia, lust (from lagnos, lustful).]
"Nurse Wolf was my name for this queen of algolagnia - of pleasure
from
pain. She gave pleasure by inflicting it, she got pleasure from
causing
it."
Paul Theroux, Chastise and consent, Independent on Sunday, 19 Jul
1998.
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>From A Word A Day:
http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/
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2. Graphic of the Day -- Belize Boat
Belize Boat -- 1989
by David J. L'Hoste
http://lhostelaw.com/ia/ia2/gotd/belizeskiff.htm
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3. Quote of the Day -- Barry
Other prank foods that they will try to get you to eat at
sushi bars include eels, clam parts, jellyfish, tentacles
with flagrant suckers, and shrimps with their eyeballs
still waving around on stalks. If you eat those, the waiter
will become brazen and start bringing out chunks of
coral and live electric eels. My point is that, in a sushi
restaurant, you must watch carefully what you eat. (This
is exactly what "The Star-Spangled Banner" is referring
to when it says "o'er the clam parts we watched.")
-- Dave Barry
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Full Story:
http://www.sacbee.com/voices/national/barry/more/barry_19981129.html
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4. Cool Fact of the Day -- frigatebird
Fastest Sea Bird
Frigate birds are not only the fastest, but also the most acrobatic
ocean-going birds. Able to fly as fast as 93 miles per hour, they
can steal food from other birds while in flight, and snatch flying
fish right out of the air!
Specialized for flight, they are unable to land on the water and are
awkward on land. They build crude nests under low bushes, and
lay only one egg at a time.
The male frigate bird has a bright red pouch on the underside of
his neck, which he can inflate to attract females. When inflated,
the pouch can be seen for great distances.
Pictures and descriptions of frigate birds:
http://www.horizon.fr/galapagos/fregatean.html
--
>From the Learning Kingdom:
http://www.LearningKingdom.com/
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5. HotSites -- Miscellany
GRAPHIC SEARCH ENGINE:
Arriba Vista -- the image searcher
Search for "lewinsky" returns 82 images
of you-know-who. Why you'd want 82 images
of you-know-who, I haven't got a clue.
But you get the idea behind Arriba Vista.
http://www.arribavista.com/
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TAXES:
Collection of helpful tax sites:
http://www.taxsites.com/
The IRS trying to be somewhat human:
http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/prod/cover.html
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PUT YOUR LIFE ONLINE:
Registered Yahoo users can now keep group
calendars and publish personal calendars.
Yahoo has also released TrueSync for Yahoo!,
which makes the Yahoo! Calendar and Address
book synchronizable with Microsoft Outlook
and the 3Com Palm devices.
http://calendar.yahoo.com/
Bookmarkbox cleverly decided that everyone
needs their own webpage to store their bookmarks,
or favorites in IE-speak.
http://www.bookmarkbox.com
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In Today's Issue
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1. A Word A Day -- misoneism
2. Graphic of the Day -- Highlands Lake 1993
3. Quote of the Day -- David Duke
3. Computer tip of the Day -- CTRL+F
4. HotSites -- miscellany
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1. A Word A Day
misoneism (mis-uh-NEE-izm) noun
Hatred or fear of change or innovation.
[Italian misoneismo : Greek miso-, miso- + Greek neos, new.]
The proclamation announcing Asbridge's new post praises his `guidance,
intelligence, misoneism {and} zetetic nature.'
For readers without an Oxford English Dictionary handy, Asbridge offers
that misoneism means aversion to change while zetetic is investigative."
Altimari Daniela, The Defender of Farmington Avenue Asbridge Stepping Down
as Task Force Chairman, The Hartford Courant, 15 Sep 1998.
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>From A Word A Day:
http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/
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2. Graphic of the Day -- Highlands Lake
Highlands Lake -- 1993
by David J. L'Hoste
http://lhostelaw.com/ia/ia2/gotd/highlands_lake.htm
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3. Quote of the Day -- David Duke
"Our clear goal must be the advancement of the white race and
separation of the white and black races. This goal must include
freeing of the American media and government from subservient
Jewish interests."
"Klan Code of Conduct," Duke Speaks Out, a column in the
Crusader (newspaper of the Knights of the KKK, then led by
David Duke), November 1978.
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From the Anti-defamation League
http://www.adl.org
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4. Computer Tip of the Day -- CTRL+F
TODAY'S TIP...
YOU FIND IT, YOU KEEP IT
Looking for a specific word, name, link, or whatever in a
Web page? Press CTRL+F which brings up the Find dialog box.
Enter what you're looking for in the 'Find What' field,
then select the direction for the search (based on where
your cursor is currently located). Then click 'Find Next'
to initiate the search. For a more specific search, choose
the 'Match Case' option, which ensures that only those
results with matching capitalization are returned. To
repeat the search, press F3.
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5. HotSites -- Miscellany
Britannica --
the best of the WWW chosen by
the editors of the Encyclopędia Britannica.
http://www.ebig.com/
http://www.eblast.com/
Malaspina as Great Books Five Star Sites --
thousands of links (arranged as a hypertext index)
about important people (from Aesop to Zoroaster)
and many academic subjects.
http://www.mala.bc.ca/~mcneil/fivestar.htm
N.O. Jazz & Heritage Festival:
http://www.nojazzfest.com/html/frontmid.html
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SPECIAL EDITION - POLITICS
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1. D.C. Humor
2. Get Ready for the Al and George Show
3. Civil War in the Balkans
4. HotSites -- Politics
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1. D.C. Humor
Joshing Time for D.C. Humorists
By Walter R. Mears
AP Special Correspondent
Tuesday, March 23, 1999; 1:40 a.m. EST
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The line between reality and parody
is a bit blurred these days, so it's a hard season on
Washington's humorists.
This is their peak time, with good lines at a premium
for the fancy dress dinners at which presidents and
politicians try to outdo each other in stand-up comedy.
Their cadres of writers -- each party and the White
House has its set -- have to produce laugh lines
for black- and white-tied affairs, most of them put
on by media organizations.
``I won't kid you, this was an awful year,'' President
Clinton said at the dinner of the Gridiron Club Saturday
night. ``It was a year I wouldn't wish upon my worst enemy.''
Pause, wry smile.
``No, I take that back.''
He went on to say that he had learned valuable political
and personal lessons in the year of the Monica Lewinsky
scandal, and also more than he ever wanted to know about
Andrew Johnson, the only other president ever impeached
and, like Clinton, acquitted.
``If the Senate vote had gone the other way, I wouldn't
be here tonight,'' Clinton had said two nights earlier,
to about 2,000 people at the Radio-Television Correspondents
Association.
Pause, wry smile.
``I demand a recount.''
Full Story in the Washington Post:
http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WAPO/19990323/V000000-032399-idx.html
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2. Get Ready for the Al and George Show
March 24, 1999
LIBERTIES / By MAUREEN DOWD
Saving Private Gore
Bill Clinton doesn't even bother to recover from mistakes.
He just keeps going. Al Gore spends a week plotting a
strategy to fix his mistake and finally comes up with a
self-deprecating joke at just the moment everyone has
started forgetting the original gaffe.
Full story inthe New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/library/opinion/dowd/032499dowd.html
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3. Civil War in the Balkans
(NOTE DATE)
March 8, 1998
Another Victory for Death in Serbia
By CHRIS HEDGES
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia -- Of all the tinderboxes in the Balkans,
Kosovo may be the nastiest. It is the place where an armed
rebellion by the ethnic Albanian majority against their Serb rulers
could easily draw in restive Albanian minorities in neighboring
Macedonia and Montenegro. Perhaps it could then draw in Albania
itself, then Turkey and Greece.
That would produce the true nightmare: an international conflict that
would pit the region's Orthodox Christians against its Muslims on a
large scale.
Such nightmares have been part of the world's thinking about the
Balkans for a decade now. Indeed, when NATO forces were sent to
Bosnia three years ago, policy makers felt they were forestalling just
such a messy escalation.
Full story in the N.Y. Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/library/review/030898yugo-kosovo-review.html
The Conflict in Kosovo (in depth coverage from the N. Y. Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/kosovo-index.html
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4. Political HotSites
HotSites has been updated!
Selected online political resources:
http://lhostelaw.com/ia/ia2/hsites.htm
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