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Monday, November 7, 2016

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First Person
Greetings: Deceased horses and panhandlers
By Rabbi Avi Shafran

There are eight million stories in the Naked City. Here are two of them.

War on (Cyber) Terror
Israel's budding cyber warriors get Game of Thrones-themed training
By Ruth Eglash

Welcome to a very different combat frontlines

Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
The Kosher Gourmet
By Cathy Barrow

One flexible dough, so many possibilities to customize flavors, toppings and glazes for these easy homemade crackers

Build a Better Child
Behind every great kid is a pushy parent
By Julie Nelson

Children give up easily when learning new things and trying new skills. Those who succeed have parents who don't give up on them. This article outlines three ways parents can "push" their children to be successful

Health & Science
Will babies be better off if we know their genes?
By Carolyn Y. Johnson

Genome sequencing is supposed to be the future of medicine - a revolution that will bring about a new age of tailored treatments and unprecedented insight into people's individual biology. But perhaps nowhere are the "what if?" questions raised by genome sequencing more complex and ethically treacherous than at birth: Should we sequence the DNA of healthy newborn babies?

Wealth Strategies
How to start investing if you have $1,000 or less
By Jonnelle Marte

At this level, investors can look into boosting retirement savings or opening a brokerage account

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

• Sean Delonas

• Sean Delonas BONUS!

• Nate Beeler

• Lisa Benson

• Chip Bok

• Chip Bok BONUS!

• John Deering

• David Fitzsimmons

• Dave Granlund

• Jerry Holbert

• Steve Kelley

• Gary Varvel

• Michael Ramirez

• Michael Ramirez BONUS!

Marilyn Penn: Hacksaw Ridge: A Tribute

Peter Brookes: Russia's bullying provokes pushback

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

On this day in . . .

• 1665, The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published

• 1805, the Lewis and Clark Expedition arrived at the Pacific Ocean

• 1861, former U.S. President John Tyler was elected to the Confederate House of Representatives (However, Tyler died before he could take his seat)

• 1874, a cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party

• 1910, the first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse

• 1916, Jeannette Rankin, A REPUBLICAN, is the first woman elected to the United States Congress

• 1917 - The Gregorian calendar date of the October Revolution, which gets its name from the Julian calendar date of 25 October. On this date in 1917, the Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace

• 1919, the first Palmer Raid is conducted on the second anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Over 10,000 suspected communists and anarchists are arrested in twenty-three different U.S. cities

• 1929, in New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public

• 1941, during World War II: Soviet hospital ship Armenia is sunk by German planes while evacuating refugees and wounded military and staff of several Crimean hospitals. It is estimated that over 5,000 people died in the sinking

• 1962, Richard Nixon, having lost California's gubernatorial race, held what he called his "last press conference," telling reporters, "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore."

• 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting

• 1973, Congress overrides President Richard M. Nixon's veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval

• 1983, a bomb explodes inside the United States Capitol. No people are harmed, but an estimated $250,000 in damage is caused

• 1987, U.S. Supreme Court nominee Douglas Ginsburg withdrew his 9-day-old candidacy following criticism of his judicial ethics and his disclosure that he had used marijuana

• 1991, Magic Johnson announces that he is infected with HIV and retires from the NBA

• 1994, WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides the world's first internet radio broadcast

• 2000, in one of the closest U.S. presidential elections, Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Al Gore wound up in almost a dead heat with Bush declared the winner more than a month later following turmoil over the disputed Florida vote that ultimately involved the U.S. Supreme Court

• 2001, the Bush administration targeted Osama bin Laden's multi million-dollar financial networks, closing businesses in four states, detaining U.S. suspects and urging allies to help choke off money supplies in 40 nations. ALSO: At the White House, President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair confidently offered back-to-back pledges of victory, no matter how long it took

• 2011, a Los Angeles jury found Dr. Conrad Murray guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the 2009 death of pop star Michael Jackson. Murray, sentenced to four years in prison, was accused of causing the singer's death by giving him anesthesia and sedatives to help him sleep and then failing to come to his aid when he was in distress. (Murray was released after two years.)

• 2013, seeking to calm a growing furor, President Barack Obama told NBC News he was "sorry" Americans were losing health insurance plans that he repeatedly had said they could keep under his health care law, but he stopped short of apologizing for making those promises in the first place. ALSO: The U.S.Food and Drug Administration said companies that produce food would be required to gradually phase out trans fats, a major contributor to heart disease. FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg said getting artery-clogging trans fats -- used to increase shelf life and improve taste and texture -- out of the food supply could potentially prevent 20,000 heart attacks and thousands of deaths each year.

• 2015, the leaders of China and Taiwan met for the first time since the formerly bitter Cold War foes split amid civil war 66 years earlier; Chinese President Xi Jinping and Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou hailed the meeting in Singapore as a sign of a new stability in relations

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