Boomer's Buzz: Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Posted April 9, 2008, 5:19 am by Growing Bolder


Today is Wednesday, April 9, 2008. There are 266 days left in the year and 208 days until Election Day.


Race For the White House:
Candidates Stay on Message at Iraq War Hearings (WSJ)
Rockefeller Apologizes for McCain Remark (AP)
Dem Leaders Turn Up Pressure on Superdelegates to Back Obama (USAToday)

Developing News:
Torch Runs For Cover as it Reaches US (NY Times)
Papers Detail Alleged Abuse at Sect's Compound (USAToday)
American Airlines Cancels as Many as 500 Flights (LATimes)
'God Particle' Expected to be Found Soon (AP)
Patrick Swayze Cancer Update: "Excellent Response" to Treatment (Huffington Post)

Latest Health News:
Green Tea Slows Breast Cancer (WebMD)
Depression and Alzheimer's Linked (WebMD)

By the Numbers:
110 Best Books: The Perfect Library (telegraph)

Pic of The Day: Let's Go to Italy



Video of The Day: Young@Heart - I Will Survive (Do yourself a favor. Watch it.)




Today's GB Birthdays:
Happy birthday to GB members Wendy and Kendall! Click their names to send them a birthday greeting!

Today's Celebrity Birthdays:
Playboy Magazine founder Hugh Hefner is 82. Actor Jean-Paul Belmondo is 75. Country singer Margo Smith is 66. Actor Dennis Quaid is 54. Comedian Jimmy Tingle is 53. Model Paulina Porizkova is 43. Actress Cynthia Nixon ("Sex and the City") is 42. Rock singer Kevin Martin is 39.

On This Date:
In 1953: Warner Brothers premieres the first 3-D film, entitled House of Wax.

In 1959: NASA announces the selection of America's first seven astronauts: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Donald Slayton.

In 1969: The album "Nashville Skyline" by Bob Dylan is released.

In 1967: The first Boeing 737 takes its maiden flight.

In 1970: Paul McCartney announces a "temporary break with the Beatles," citing "personal differences" and adding that he will no longer record with John Lennon. Paul disapproves of Yoko Ono and of the Beatles' financial advisor Allen Klein. A week after McCartney's announcement, he releases his first solo album, spelling the end of the Beatles.

Today's Thought:
"I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones."
-- John Cage




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