Boomer's Buzz: Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Posted April 23, 2008, 4:27 am by Growing Bolder


Today is Wednesday, April 23, 2008. There are 252 days left in the year and 194 days left until Election Day.

Race For the White House:
Clinton wins Pennsylvania Primary, Will Battle On (Reuters)
Clinton Takes Pennsylvania (NY Times)
Today on the Presidential Campaign Trail (AP)

Developing News:
Larry King, 74, Extends CNN Contract Through At Least 2011 (Reuters)
Yoko Ono Sues to Stop Release of "Awesome" Lennon Footage (ABC News)
Bill Gates on Pharmaceuticals: The System Isn't Working (Wired)
Woman Finds 8-Foot Alligator in Her Florida Kitchen (Yahoo News)

Latest Health News:
Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Shows Mixed Results (WashingtonPost)
Breast Cancer Gene Fingerprint Find (Telegraph)
Top Medical Myths (TimesOnLine)

By the Numbers:
10 Amazing Celebrity Houses (Glamorati)
10 Dumb Ideas That Made A Lot of Money (CreditCardPundit)

Pic of the Day: GB Thought Leader Susan Silver With Her Eye on the Pope Mobile



Video of The Day: 164M Lottery Winner Gets Rid of Wife


Today's GB Birthdays:
Happy birthday to GB members Annelle, Judee, Forrest Letzring and Jessie 423! Click their names to send them a birthday greeting!

Today's Celebrity Birthdays:
Child actress Shirley Temple Black is 80. Actor Alan Oppenheimer ("Murphy Brown") is 78. Actor David Birney is 69. Actor Lee Majors ("The Six Million Dollar Man") is 69. Actress Blair Brown is 60. Writer Paul Brickman is 59. Actress Joyce DeWitt ("Three's Company") is 59. Actor James Russo is 55. Director Michael Moore ("Fahrenheit 9/11") is 54. Actress Judy Davis is 53. Actress Valerie Bertinelli is 48. Actor George Lopez is 47. Actor Scott Bairstow is 38.

On This Date:
In 1954: Hank Aaron of the Milwaukee Braves hits the first of his record 755 major-league home runs in a game against the St. Louis Cardinals.

In 1969: Sirhan Sirhan is sentenced to death for assassinating New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. The sentence is later reduced to life imprisonment.

In 1971: The Rolling Stones album "Sticky Fingers" is released.

In 1985: The Coca-Cola Co. announces it was changing its secret formula for Coke. However, negative public reaction later forces the company to resume selling the original version.

In 1992: McDonald's opens its first restaurant in Beijing.

In 1998: James Earl Ray, who confessed to assassinating the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 and later insisted he was framed, dies at age 70.

Today's Thought:
"The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary."
-- Thomas Edison




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