World Day for Water

QUOTE OF THE DAY:
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." Bill Cosby


TODAY IN HISTORY:

Arthur L. Shawlow

Valeri Polyakov

• 1960 Arthur Leonard Shawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser.
• 1995 Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns to earth after setting a record of 438 days in space.
• 2006 ETA, the armed Basque separatist group, declares a permanent ceasefire.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT:

Whitney Houston

Whitney Houston died a few weeks ago, and the autopsy findings have been released. Read the Time article. Do you think a teenager could be a hundred years old? Watch the astonishing BBC interview. Do you think men and women are affected in different ways by smoking? Watch the CNN report. The Pope is visiting Mexico, but is it safe for him? Watch the Reuters report. Do you think Ratzinger is being compared to John Paul II in Mexico? Read the Reuters article via Yahoo. Do you have a coffee brewer at home? Listen to an NPR interview about the inventor of the coffee brewer. And talking about caffeine, are "energy drinks" healthy? Watch the Yahoo report hosted by Dr. Manny. Finally, have you heard about Path 2.0? Watch the USA Today interview.