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March 14…
1743 The first town meeting is held at Faneuil Hall in Boston, Massachusetts.
1794 Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.
1879 born Albert Einstein, American physicist and Nobel laureate
http://www.time.com/time/time100/poc/magazine/albert_einstein5a.html
http://www.westegg.com/einstein/
1900 The United States Congress passes legislation transferring all U.S. currency to the gold standand.
1923 born Diane Arbus, American photographer known for her black-and-white portraits of individuals on the fringes of society. The alienation and inner torment depicted in her photographs mirrored both her own inner feelings and the social turmoil in the United States during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Arbus produced haunting images of transvestites, midgets, nudists, and on occasion, celebrities.
http://www.temple.edu/photo/photographers/arbus/arbus.htm
1923, President Harding became the first chief executive to file an income tax report.
1943, Aaron Copland's orchestral work "Fanfare for the Common Man" premiered in New York, with George Szell conducting.
1964, a jury in Dallas found Jack Ruby guilty of murdering Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President Kennedy, the previous November.
1965, Israel's cabinet formally approved establishment of diplomatic relations with West Germany.
1980, a Polish airliner crashed while making an emergency landing near Warsaw, killing all 87 aboard, including 22 members of a U.S. amateur boxing team.
1995, American astronaut Norman Thagard became the first American to enter space aboard a Russian rocket as he and two cosmonauts blasted off aboard a Soyuz spacecraft, headed for the Mir space station.
Missing in Action
1966 HILTON ROBERT L. BALTIMORE MD
1966 KLUTE KARL EDWIN RICHMOND IN
1966 PLEIMAN JAMES E. RUSSIA OH REMAINS RETURNED 03/23/89
1968 HAMM JAMES E. LONGMONT CO
1972 HARDY ARTHUR HANS ISPWICH MA REM RETURNED 09/20/83
The Chicago Tribune
Google doodler
Sketch artist Dennis Hwang achieves cult status
The Hartford Courant
Published March 9, 2005
On Valentine's Day, there were flowers in the first O, with ribbon going through the hoop of the G.
For New Year's Day, the numbers 2005 were set behind the word Google.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-050309google,1,7121505.story?coll=chi-homepagebiz-utl
Ex-Homeland watchdog knocks Ridge
By Pete Yost
Associated Press
Published March 14, 2005
WASHINGTON -- The Homeland Security Department's former independent watchdog says he was twice summoned to then-Secretary Tom Ridge's office last year and asked why his reports criticizing the agency were being sent to Congress and whether they could be presented more favorably.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0503140187mar14,1,4673474.story?coll=chi-news-hed
The Scotsman
IVF parents should be able to pick babies' sex, say MPs
CRAIG BROWN
Key points
• Couples should have right to decide sex of IVF babies, says draft report
• Committee to recommend screening embryos for disease and tissue-type
• But report's findings may be delayed over dissension in committee
Key quote
"The report has already been much rewritten, as the original was appalling and libertarian. It would have been unacceptable to the public and it’s been amended, but it remains unacceptable" - Member of Commons science and technology committee
Story in full COUPLES should have the right to create designer babies and decide which sex they should be, a committee of MPs is to controversially recommend.
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=275492005
Annan arrives in Middle East to keep peace momentum going
JOSEF FEDERMAN
KOFI Annan, the United Nations secretary general, yesterday began a Middle East trip to promote Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts and attend the opening of a Holocaust museum in Jerusalem.
Mr Annan met Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister, yesterday and was to travel to the West Bank today for talks with Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian leader, and other officials.
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=275742005
30,000 may have caught new MRSA strain
CRAIG BROWN
Key points
• Number of new MRSA strain infections grow as organisms resists treatment
• Community Acquired MRSA can be caught in sports clubs and gyms
• Organisations to launch first national MRSA screening programme this year
Key quote
"Usually these things will cause a boil or abscess on the skin but go no further, but there have been a few cases where people have got a type of pneumonia which has a mortality rate of about 75 per cent" - Dr Donald Morrison, clinical scientist at Stobhill hospital
Story in full A NEW strain of the MRSA superbug has infected up to 30,000 Scots, a leading doctor has claimed.
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=275712005&20050314015947
Balance between care and confidentiality
MEDICAL ETHICS
SHEILA McLEAN
THE CASE: Dr Brown is consulted by a patient who is concerned that he may be HIV positive. After the tests are carried out, this diagnosis is confirmed. Dr Brown knows this patient well, and is aware that the man is in a sexual relationship with another of her patients. Dr Brown urges the patient to disclose the fact of his HIV status to his partner, but the patient refuses, claiming that the information is private and should therefore be subject to the rules of confidentiality.
THE DISCUSSION: Patients generally expect, and are entitled to expect, that the information they give to their doctor will be securely and confidentially held.
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=275372005
The Los Angeles Times
Flip Side to Fame in China
An Olympic diving star is a casualty in the Communist Party's bid to reassert old values.
CHONGQING, China — Tian Liang, 25, is handsome, tall and was, until recently, the pride of China. When he returned from the 2004 Athens Olympics with a gold medal for synchronized diving, his star appeal skyrocketed and advertisers banged on his door. Tian decided to take a breather, grab some endorsements and enjoy the payoff after endless hours in the pool.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-communists14mar14,0,5672121.story?coll=la-home-headlines
In Catholic Belfast, IRA Becomes Public Enemy
BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Along the mean streets of this city soaked in blood and memory, something strange is happening. On a wall in the overwhelmingly Roman Catholic neighborhood of Short Strand, two words of graffiti have appeared: "Disband Now."
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-irish14mar14,0,4442978.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Life's Work Foreshadows Doctor's Own Diagnosis
Lou Gehrig's disease tightens its grip on a leading figure in the war against the fatal illness.
SAN FRANCISCO — Dr. Richard Olney knows nearly all there is to know about amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Lou Gehrig's disease.
He knows that over a couple of years, it destroys nerves that control muscles, gradually entombing the mind alive in a useless body until, unable to move, speak, swallow or breathe, the patient perishes.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-olney14mar14,0,1852255.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Iceland Has a Word for It
Usually a very old word.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-ecenbarger14_mar14,0,5308774.story
Hindustan Times
US may offer F-16s to both India and Pakistan
S Rajagopalan
Washington,
US Secy of State Condoleezza Rice to visit India on Mar 15 »
Ahead of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s visit to India and Pakistan this week, speculation is rife here that the Bush administration may indicate its willingness to sell F-16 fighter planes to both countries.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1277478,00050001.htm
The Miami Herald
Fire after SWAT call leaves 100 homeless
A fire that started sometime after a SWAT team fired tear gas into a Margate apartment during a standoff burned 100 residents out of their homes. A body was found in the apartment.
BY KEVIN DEUTSCH
kdeutsch@herald.com
A confrontation between a security guard and his ex-girlfriend over their young daughter led to a fire that blazed out of control, leaving some 100 Margate apartment dwellers homeless.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11129485.htm
U.S. sugar fighting for survival
By Jane Bussey
jbussey@herald.com
CLEWISTON - The heavy odor of molasses hangs over the glistening modern sugar refinery and the aging processing mill that traditionally signified the sweet smell of success for United States Sugar Corp.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11115441.htm
Diverse groups unite against sprawl
As developers push to extend the Urban Development Boundary, environmental and community activists have broadened support for a surprisingly effective opposition campaign.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11128455.htm
To better manage growth
OUR OPINION: RESIDENTS TIRED OF SPRAWL SHOULD PROD LEGISLATURE TO ACT
At a panel discussion on growth management in Tallahassee Friday, the speakers were in general agreement on one thing: Any major attempt to reform the state's growth-management process this legislative session is dead in the water. The reason? In the words of Charles Lee of the Florida Audubon Society, the Department of Community Affairs' draft legislation elicited ``a crescendo of opposition from developers.''
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/11129475.htm
U.S. pulls out of protocol
OUR OPINION: U.S. WITHDRAWAL FROM WORLD COURT AGREEMENT IS SHORTSIGHTED
If the U.S. battle against global terrorism has taught us anything, it is that being effective in today's world requires international cooperation, not isolation. That is true of the war in Iraq, the push for peace in the Middle East and the campaigns to stop Iran and North Korea from developing nuclear programs. Not even a superpower can go it alone. Or can it?
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/11129476.htm
The Arab News
Protesters in Lebanon Blast UN Resolution
Danielle Hosri, Arab News
BEIRUT, 14 March 2005 — Protesters rallied yesterday to denounce a UN resolution demanding a Syrian military pullout as the government asserted its right to have a say in when the troops leave Lebanon. The pro-Syrian gathering in the southern city of Nabatiyeh drew 200,000 people and is expected to be followed today by an even larger demonstration by the country’s anti-Syrian opposition.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=60423&d=14&m=3&y=2005
AIDS Victim Plans Society to Create Awareness
Khaled Batarfi, Arab News
JEDDAH, 14 March 2005 — Rami, a 28-year-old Saudi university student, has been suffering from acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) for the past 20 years. He contracted the disease not from any illegal sexual activity but from a transfusion of contaminated blood.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=60408&d=14&m=3&y=2005
The Danger of an Israeli Attack on Iran
Jonathan Power, jonatpower@aol.com
How is the ordinary mortal able to make up his mind on whether Iran is developing nuclear weapons or not, and if so whether this poses a serious threat to Israel or other neighbors? After all, as Hans Blix, the UN’s former chief nuclear weapons’ inspector, famously said about Iraq’s supposed nuclear armory, there was nothing to stop Saddam Hussein hanging up a sign “Beware of the dog”, even if there was no dog. Moreover, even if Iran does have or almost have the capability to build a few nuclear weapons who would they use them against in a real— life situation, as opposed to the make-believe scenarios that game playing strategists love to create? Against Israel, Europe or the US? But these putative antagonists all have enough submarines, hardened silos and nuclear missiles to ensure a second strike ability that would wipe Iran off the face of the planet.
Still, as George Perkovich of the Carnegie Endowment reports, quoting an Israeli official, “if you cannot absolutely live with something, then you have to act. The consequences may be horrible, but they will come later. The consequences of not acting are intolerable immediately, so you have to act and live another day to deal with what comes next.”
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=60411&d=14&m=3&y=2005
LIST OF TOP 100 SAUDI COMPANIES
http://www.arabnews.com/top100/index.asp
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