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Wednesday, May 29, 2013

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

"Life is 10% what you make it, and 90% how you take it."

--- Irving Berlin

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[ T O P S T O R I E S ]

wandering jews
The Little Synagogue that Refused to Die
By Andrew Connelly and Helene Bienvenu

Depite all odds -- some might call it an outright miracle -- a Budapest shul has survived two World Wars, the rise of the 'anti-Zionist' Jobbik party, and rotting fixtures — and is now part of a resurgent Jewish community

reality check
The 'Muslims-Killed-by-the-West' Lie
By Dennis Prager

Normally there is no reason to respond to the justifications offered by terrorists and other murderers of the innocent

education
Open war on teachers?
By David Clark Scott

Did booting instructors for using 'negro' in class and posting proof of students with duct tape on their mouths to Facebook go too far?

in the money
If you know only five things about investing, make it these
By Morgan Housel

The vast majority of financial products are sold by people whose only interest in your wealth is the amount of fees they can sucker you out of.

HOW NOT TO FALL PREY

fantas-tech?
Genome detectives change the donation game
By Sara Reardon

Matching names to genes: The end of genetic privacy?

etc.
A one-way ticket to Mars? 78,000-plus and counting apply by video
By Deborah Netburn

Do you dream of living on Mars? Then turn on your webcam. You've got an application video to make

ess, ess/ eat, eat!
The Kosher Gourmet
By Bev Bennett

CHEDDAR AND CHERRY MUFFINS --- your mouth is already watering

[ D A I L Y I N S P I R A T I O N ]

Step By Step: A Daily Program for Self-improvement
Compiled by Rabbi Dovid Weinberger

There are no days off for Olympic hopefuls. If you want to be a champion, you have to practice every single day. The same is true if you want to be a "mentsh." This daily program will help you become a better person by working on a single character trait each week. If one week's area of improvement -- or the author -- doesn't interest you, try another.

THIS WEEK: FAITH by Rabbi Shalom Arush

TODAY: The Successful Businessperson

[ W O R T H 1 0 0 0 W O R D S ]

• Archie
• Dilbert
• Ripleys Believe It Or Not!
• Andy Capp
• Bliss
• The Born Loser
• Frank & Ernest
• The Grizzwells
• Herman
• Moderately Confused
• One Big Happy
• Prickly City
• Shoe
• The Wizard of Id

Chuck Asay
Chip Bok
Bob Gorrell
Walt Handelsman
Joe Heller
Jerry Holbert
Steve Kelley
Jimmy Margulies
Jeff Stahler
Dana Summers
Gary Varvel
Michael Ramirez

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[ L I F E S T Y L E S ]

• Living Smart by Angie Hicks of Anggie's List: Home automation

Ask Doctor K by Anthony L. Komaroff, M.D.: Hormones from fat cells cause damage throughout our bodies

Bruce Williams on JWR: Sometimes it costs money to get what you want; granny's surrogate taking advantage

Monica Crowley: Gambling in Casablanca

Peter Brookes: The next defense fight

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

On this day in . . .

• 1453, the Fall of Constantinople: Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih captures Constantinople after a 53-day siege, ending the Byzantine Empire

• 1677, the Treaty of Middle Plantation establishes peace between the Virginia colonists and the local natives

• 1765, Patrick Henry denounced the Stamp Act before Virginia's House of Burgesses

• 1790, Rhode Island becomes the last of the original United States' colonies to ratify the Constitution and is admitted as the 13th U.S. state

• 1865, U.S. President Andrew Johnson issued a proclamation giving a general amnesty to all who took part in the rebellion against the United States

• 1886, pharmacist John Pemberton places an ad, his first, for Coca-Cola in The Atlanta Journal

• 1913, Igor Stravinsky's ballet score, The Rite of Spring, receives its premiere performance in Paris, France provoking a riot

• 1919, Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin

• 1931, Michele Schirru, a citizen of the United States, is executed by Italian military firing squad for intent to kill Benito Mussolini

• 1932, World War I Veterans begin to assemble in Washington, D.C., in the Bonus Army to request cash bonuses promised to them to be paid in 1945

• 1943, Norman Rockwell's portrait of "Rosie the Riveter" appeared on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post

• 1948, the creation of the United Nations peacekeeping force the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization

• 1953, Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday

• 1964 , the Arab League meets in East Jerusalem to discuss the Palestinian question, leading to the formation of the Palestine Liberation Organization

• 1988, President Ronald Reagan begins his first visit to the Soviet Union when he arrives in Moscow for a superpower summit with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev

• 1989, signing of an agreement between Egypt and the United States, allowing the manufacture of parts of the F-16 jet fighter plane in Egypt. ALSO: Chinese students in Tiananmen Square erected a 33-foot statue similar to the Statue of Liberty

• 1996, in Israel's first selection of a prime minister by direct vote, Binyamin Netanyahu defeated Shimon Peres. The margin of victory was less than 1 percent

• 1999, Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station

• 2004, the National World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. About 70,000 veterans of that war attended

[ I N S I G H T ]

John Stossel: Gas Myths

Argus Hamilton: The News in Zingers

News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: Bright Ideas

Jay Ambrose: Biting the Apple: Nothing infuriates neo-socialist curmudgeons more than free enterprise of the vigorous, corporate kind expanding the reach of our lives

Mark Bazer: Money for Nothing

John Kass: Mr. President, save us from Xbox One

Cathy Young: Sexual assault: When the government turns the accused into the victim (NEW CONTRIBUTOR; FEEEDBACK APPRECIATED)

Ron Hart: Why Obama Comparisons to Nixon are Fair

Martin Schram: Obama vs. Obama

Clarence Page: What next? A drone war against the press?

Jonah Goldberg: It takes two to end a war