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And you thought the others were pathetic!

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The Democratic Majority for Israel seeks to counter a rising tide of leftist attacks on the Jewish state. But does it speak for most Democrats?

Wellness
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Doctors have begun pairing a sensor with a common chemotherapy drug. The sensor transmits data from inside patients' bodies to doctors

Your Personal Better
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It doesn't have to be, though

Must-Know Info
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Interest has soared by people dealing with sleep problems such as insomnia, discomfort or restlessness. You should really read this before buying one, however

Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
The Kosher Gourmet
By Joy Manning

Pizza's fine, but my Philly stromboli's better --- especially when you make it yourself (3 RECIPES!)

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On this day in . . .

• 1790, the first boat specializing as a lifeboat is tested on the River Tyne

• 1798, a brawl broke out in the U.S. House of Representatives in Philadelphia, as Matthew Lyon of Vermont spat in the face of Roger Griswold of Connecticut

• 1820, Edward Bransfield sights the Trinity Peninsula and claims the discovery of Antarctica

• 1826, the Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales, is opened

• 1835, in the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States, Richard Lawrence attempts to shoot president Andrew Jackson, but fails and is subdued by a crowd, including several congressmen

• 1847, Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco

• 1862, the first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched

• 1911, the destroyer USS Terry (DD-25) makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of James McCurdy 10 miles from Havana, Cuba

• 1933, Adolf Hitler, ym"sh, is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany. ALSO: The first episode of the "Lone Ranger" radio program was broadcast on station WXYZ in Detroit

• 1943, during World War II: Second day of the Battle of Rennell Island. The USS Chicago (CA-29) is sunk and a U.S. destroyer is heavily damaged by Japanese torpedoes. ALSO: The British air force bombed Berlin in a daylight raid timed to coincide with a speech by Joseph Goebbels in honor of Hitler's 10th year in power

• 1945, during World War II: The Wilhelm Gustloff, overfilled with refugees, sinks in the Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, leading to the deadliest known maritime disaster, killing approximately 9,400 people

• 1959, MS Hans Hedtoft, said to be the safest ship afloat and "unsinkable" like the RMS Titanic, struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sank, killing all 95 aboard

• 1962, two members of "The Flying Wallendas" high-wire act were killed when their seven-person pyramid collapsed during a performance at the State Fair Coliseum in Detroit

• 1968, after calling for a cease-fire during the Tet holiday celebrations, North Vietnam and the Viet Cong attacked the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon, temporarily occupying the U.S. Embassy

• 1971, Carole King's Tapestry album is released, it would become the longest charting album by a female solo artist and sell 24 million copies worldwide

• 1981, an estimated two million New Yorkers turned out for a ticker-tape parade honoring the freed American hostages from Iran

• 1982, Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner"

• 2002, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said the United States would watch closely to see what Iraq, Iran and North Korea did next, a day after President George W. Bush singled them out as part of a dangerous "axis of evil."

• 2003, a U.S. judge sentenced Richard Reid to life in prison for trying to set off plastic explosives in his shoes on a trans-Atlantic flight in 2003

• 2005, despite widespread violence, about 60 percent of Iraqi voters cast ballots in the country's first free election in half a century. At least 22 people died in Election Day violence

• 2009, U.S. stock exchanges reported their weakest January in more than a century with the Dow Jones industrial average showing a one-month decline of 8.8 percent, closing at 8,000.86. The January unemployment rate jumped to 7.6 percent

• 2011, Egypt's most prominent democracy advocate, Mohamed ElBaradei, called for President Hosni Mubarak to resign during an address to thousands of protesters in Cairo who were defying a curfew for a third night. ALSO: Rachid Ghanouchi, leader of the long-outlawed Tunisian Islamist party, returned home after two decades in exile

• 2012, the U.S. Defense Department said it couldn't account for about $2 billion, or two-thirds of what Iraq gave it to pay bills, a U.S. government audit reported

• 2013, U.S. President Barack Obama's favorability rating was 60 percent in a Washington Post-ABC News poll as he began his second term.

• 2014, an appeals court in Florence, Italy, reinstated the guilty verdict against U.S. student Amanda Knox and her ex-boyfriend for the 2007 murder of her British roommate, Meredith Kercher. (Knox was sentenced to 28 1/2 years in prison, raising the specter of a long legal battle over her extradition from the U.S. should the conviction be upheld.) ALSO: Federal prosecutors announced they would seek the death penalty against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the Boston Marathon bombing

• 2016, two biker clubs clashed during a weekend motorcycle show in Denver, resulting in a brawl that left one person dead and seven others shot, stabbed or beaten. ALSO: A boat carrying Syrians attempting the short sea journey from Turkey to Greece capsized, causing at least 37 people to drown, among them several babies and young children

• 2018, in his first State of the Union address, President Donald Trump called on Congress to make good on long-standing promises to fix a fractured immigration system and issued ominous warnings about deadly gangs, the scourge of drugs and violent immigrants living in the country illegally; the speech also included calls for optimism amid a growing economy. In the Democratic response, Massachusetts Rep. Joe Kennedy III said soaring stock prices had boosted investor portfolios and corporate profits but had not eased the anxieties of middle-class families

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