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Wednesday, March 29, 2017

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"Jealousy has a thousand eyes, yet none sees properly."

--- Mishle Yehoshua

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Outlook
Sound the Trumpets
By Rabbi Yonason Goldson

Every generation laments that things have never been worse. Is it true, or is our perception of the past skewed by nostalgia and selective memory?

Strategy
Trump, Palestinians are high on agenda of annual Arab League summit
By Sudarsan Raghavan & Ruth Eglash

The meeting comes amid frustration in the divided Arab world at leaders’ inability to resolve multiple regional crises

War on Jihad
At this Jesuit university, radical Islam is a family affair
By Steven Emerson

Why is Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service hosting Palestinian Islamic Jihad supporter Sami Al-Arian, describing him as a "civil rights activist"? The school also employs Al-Arian's son and son in law

Online Living
Want to erase yourself from the Internet? Here's how to do it
By Abby Ohlheiser

For those of us who spend a lot of time on the Internet, there will be the urge to simply disappear

Wellness
Must-know info for cardiac patients: The latest research (summarized) on breakfast, fasting, snacking
By Amby Burfoot

For the first time in its 93-year history, the American Heart Association has released a "scientific statement" on meal timing and frequency, and how they can affect weight and cardiovascular disease

Personal Growth
Are you a self-aware person?
By Kimberly Giles

Self-awareness is defined as being awake, conscious and aware of your thoughts and behaviors, instead of letting your subconscious programming drive your life on autopilot. It means you can see yourself, other people and life accurately and understand you drive your behavior.

Here are some things you can do to improve your self-awareness

Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
The Kosher Gourmet
By Diane Rossen Worthington

Delicious Italian pasta dish creates out-of-this-world taste memory

WOW!
'This is awesome': Watch this dude nail the first-ever monster truck front flip
By Derek Hawkins

America, meet the Neil Armstrong of monster trucks (Includes short video)

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• Sean Delonas

• Nate Beeler

• Chip Bok

• David Hitch

• Jerry Holbert

• Dana Summers

• Michael Ramirez

[ T O D A Y I N H I S T O R Y ]

On this day in . . .

• 1806, construction is authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway

• 1812, the first wedding was performed in the White House. Lucy Payne Washington, sister-in-law of U.S. President James Madison, married Supreme Court Justice Thomas Dodd

• 1886, Dr. John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta

• 1911, the M1911 .45 ACP pistol became the official U.S. Army side arm

• 1936, in Germany, Adolf Hitler, ym"sh, receives 99% of the votes in a referendum to ratify Germany's illegal reoccupation of the Rhineland, receiving 44.5 million votes out of 45.5 million registered voters

• 1943, World War II rationing of meat, fats and cheese began

• 1961, the Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, D.C. to vote in presidential elections

• 1971, cult leader Charles Manson and three followers were sentenced to death in the Tate-Labianca slayings in Los Angeles. The death sentence was later ruled unconstitutional and the four were re-sentenced to life in prison

• 1973, the last United States combat soldiers leave South Vietnam

• 1979, the House Select Committee on Assassinations released its final report on the assassinations of U.S. President John Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy

• 1999, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark (10,006.78) for the first time ever, during the height of the internet boom

• 2002, Israeli troops stormed Yasser Arafat's headquarters complex in the West Bank in a raid that was launched in response to anti-Israeli attacks that had killed 30 people in three days

• 2004, the Republic of Ireland becomes the first country in the world to ban smoking in all work places, including bars and restaurants

• 2009, Rick Wagoner, chief executive of troubled General Motors during a period of rapid decline, resigned at the insistence of the Obama administration

• 2010, two female practitioners of that "religion of peace" blew themselves up in twin attacks on Moscow subway stations jam-packed with rush-hour passengers, killing at least 40 people and wounding more than 100

• 2011, small levels of radiation from Japan's earthquake-tsunami-damaged Fukushima nuclear plant were detected in at least 15 U.S. states, but the Environmental Protection Agency said they posed no threat to public health

• 2016, in the clearest sign yet of the impact of Justice Antonin Scalia's death, labor unions won, on a tie vote, a high-profile Supreme Court dispute they had seemed all but certain to lose

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