Boomer's Buzz: Tuesday, March 18

Posted March 18, 2008, 6:36 am by Growing Bolder


Today is Tuesday, March 18, 2008. There are 288 days left in the year and 230 days left until Election Day.
Race For the White House:
Poll: Clinton Leads Obama in Pa. (AP)
Florida Democrats Won't Vote Again, Official Says (NYTimes)

Developing News:
London Shares Rebound Ahead of Today's Fed Rate Cut (Market Watch)
Americans Should Start Seeing Tax Rebates in May (USA Today)
Eliot Spitzer's 7 Deadly Sins (BusinessWeek)
British Man Auctions Entire Life on eBay (The Independent)

Latest Health News:
'Brain Fog' Hinders Independence of Elderly (USA Today)
Study Finds Potential Cause of Age-Related Macular Degeneration (Forbes)
Regrowing Limbs: Can People Regenerate Body Parts? (Scientific American)

By the Numbers:
The 6 Best Places to Watch Documentary Movies Online (MakeUseOf)
The 10 Legal Commandments of Photography (PhotoJojo)

Pic of the Day:
New York City at Night -- HDR

Video of The Day: Whippin' The Whippersnappers



Today's GB Birthdays:
Happy birthday to GB member SuzanneK. Click on her name to send a birthday greeting!

Today's Celebrity Birthdays:
Author John Updike is 76. Actor Kevin Dobson ("Kojak," "Knots Landing") is 65. Ben Cohen, American co-founder of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream, is 57. Musician Bill Frisell is 57. TV personality Mike Rowe ("Dirty Jobs") is 46. Actress Vanessa Williams is 45. Speed Skater Bonnie Blair is 44.

On This Date:
1965: Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov leaves his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becoming the first person to walk in space.

1989: A 4,400-year-old mummy is found in Egypt's Pyramid of Cheops.

1990: Thieves steal 12 paintings worth $300 million from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. It is the largest art theft in U.S. history.

2003: The United States enteres the war in Iraq.

2005: A woman leads a mixed-gender congregation in Muslim Friday prayer in New York City. It marks a break with a 1426-year Islamic tradition.



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