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Wednesday, June 29, 2016
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"Death is merely moving from one home to another. The wise man will spend his main efforts in trying to make his future home the more beautiful one."
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Guardians of History
"Eemergency" desert dig is Israel's largest and most intensive in 60 years
War on Jihad
It's only a question of when. The U.S. government is sending teams around the world to investigate Muslim mayhem in order to prevent it in the nation's capital
Coupling
Marriage is a marathon, but these 10 signs mean you're headed for the finish line!
Wellness
Some persistent food and health myths just don't seem to go away. To really be healthy this summer, stick to common sense and don't get duped by these five summer food myths
Wealth Strategies
These real estate investment trusts offer above-average yields and could deliver appreciation, too. Plus, four funds to get into real estate
Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
Cap off your July Fourth celebration with this cross between a Dutch oven pancake and the famed French cherry clafoutis dessert
[ W O R T H 1 0 0 0 W O R D S ]
• Chip Bok
[ T O D A Y I N H I S T O R Y ] • 1767, the British Parliament approved the Townshend Acts, which imposed import duties on certain goods shipped to America. (Colonists bitterly protested, prompting Parliament in 1770 to repeal the duties on all goods -- except tea.)
• 1853, the U.S. Senate ratified the $10 million Gadsden Purchase from Mexico, adding more than 29,000 square miles to the territories of Arizona and New Mexico and completing the modern geographical boundaries of the contiguous 48 states
• 1888, first (known) recording of classical music, Handel's "Israel in Egypt," made on a wax cylinder
• 1927, first test of Wallace Turnbull's Controllable pitch propeller
• 1941, Isabella Peron took office as president of Argentina, succeeding her husband
• 1956, the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System
• 1966, the United States bombed fuel storage facilities near the North Vietnamese cities of Hanoi and Haiphong
• 1967, Jerusalem was reunified as Israel removed barricades separating the Old City from the Israeli sector
• 1970, the last U.S. troops were withdrawn from Cambodia into South Vietnam
• 1972, the Supreme Court, in Furman v. Georgia, ruled the death penalty, as it was being meted out, could constitute "cruel and unusual punishment." (The ruling prompted states to revise their capital punishment laws.)
• 1981, Hu Yaobang, a protege of Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, was elected Communist Party chairman, replacing Mao Zedong's hand-picked successor, Hua Guofeng
• 1992, the U.S. Supreme Court left intact the important aspects of the 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision legalizing abortion but upheld most of Pennsylvania's new restrictions on a woman's right to abortion. ALSO: doctors in Pittsburgh reported the world's first transplant of a baboon liver into a human patient. The recipient, a 35-year-old man, survived three months
• 1995, the U.S. shuttle Atlantis docked with the Russian space station Mir
• 1997, in Albania, gunmen menaced voters, burned ballots and pressured polling officials, marring parliamentary elections meant to steer the country toward recovery after months of chaos
• 2002, President Bush transferred his presidential powers to Vice President Dick Cheney for more than two hours during a routine colon screening that ended in a clean bill of health
• 2005, President George W. Bush, embracing nearly all the recommendations of a White House commission, said he was creating a national security service at the FBI to specialize in intelligence as part of a shake-up of the disparate U.S. spy agencies
• 2006, the Supreme Court ruled 5-3 that President Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violated U.S. and international law. ALSO: The government announced it had recovered a stolen laptop computer and hard drive with sensitive data on up to 26.5 million veterans and military personne
• 2007, two car bombs are found in the heart of London at Picadilly Circus. A close link was quickly established to the attack at Glasgow Airport the following day. Bilal Abdullah, a practitioner of that "religion of peace", was arrested following the Glasgow attack. He was later found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder (in relation to both incidents) and sentenced to 32 years in prison. ALSO: The first Apple iPhones went on sale. AND: The American bald eagle, declared endangered in 1967, is flourishing and no longer imperiled, the U.S. Interior Department announced
• 2009, U.S. combat troops withdrew from Iraqi cities, the first major step toward removing all American forces from the country by Dec. 31, 2011. ALSO: Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff received a 150-year sentence for his multibillion-dollar fraud. AND: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were denied promotion because of their race
• 2011, in the first ruling by a federal appeals court on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, a panel in Cincinnati handed the administration a victory by agreeing that the government could require a minimum amount of insurance for Americans
• 2012, thousands of people at a rally in Cairo demanded that the military transfer full power to new Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, who told the crowd, "There is no power above people power." (Morsi was ousted by the military just over a year later.)
• 2013, temperatures of 119 in Phoenix and 115 in Las Vegas sent dozens of people to hospitals. Death Valley, Calif., had a high of 127
• 2014, the al-Qaida breakaway group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, which had seized much of northeast Syria and huge tracts in neighboring Iraq, formally declared the establishment of a new Islamic state and demanded allegiance from Muslims worldwide
• 2015, a deeply divided Supreme Court upheld the use of a controversial drug, midazolam, in lethal-injection executions. (Executions that employed midazolam took longer than usual and raised concerns that the drug did not perform its intended task of putting inmates into a coma-like sleep.) ALSO: A car bomb killed Egypt's chief prosecutor, Hisham Barakat, in the country's first assassination of a senior official in 25 years.
Newt Gingrich: Focusing on Brexit creates much too narrow a basis for understanding the winds of change sweeping through the Western world
News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: It's NOT 'One World' | The Job of the Researcher
The Village Idiot by Jim Mullen: Customer disservice survey
Noah Feldman: A fascinating alliance on the Supreme Court
John Stossel: Convicted and Unemployed
Jonah Goldberg: The wisdom of Mencken, Nock seems fresh today
Paul Greenberg: Very well, alone
Chris Cillizza: Hillary's email story continues to get harder and harder to believe
Charles Hurt: Beware of the supreme maestro of shameless cover-ups
Kathleen Parker: With Warren on Clinton's stump, it's double trouble for Trump
Jose A. DelReal & Sean Sullivan: Defying GOP orthodoxy, Trump trashes trade deals and advocates tariffs
Walter Williams: Multiculturalism: A Failed Concept
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