Mother's Day (Bolivia)

QUOTE OF THE DAY:
"I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming circumstances." Christopher Reeve


TODAY IN HISTORY:

Christopher Reeve

The Golden Gate Bridge

• 1703 Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
• 1937 In California, the Golden Gate bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California.
• 1995 In Culpeper, Virginia, actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from a horse in a riding competition.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT:

How would you like to be proposed? Watch the ABC News report. Do you know enough about Josefina? Watch the BBC report. Why would a 7-year-old kid commit suicide? Watch the CNN report. Have you been introduced to Vivi Perez yet? Listen to the NPR interview. How's "Men in Black" doing so far? Watch the Reuters report. Would you like to learn a thing or two about elephants? Watch the Time interview. What's the role of women in the Mexican drug cartels? Read the AFP article via Yahoo.