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Untitled Epigram
William Shakespeare
He is not dead that sometime hath a fall;
The sun returneth that was under the cloud;
And when fortune hath spit out all her gall,
I trust good luck to me shall be allowed.
For I have seen a ship into haven fall
After the storm hath broke both mast and shroud.
And eke the willow that stoopeth with the wind,
Doth rise again, and greater wood doth bind.
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News
Today in History
1787: Delegates at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia vote to accept the Constitution.
1972: M*A*S*H begins its 11-year TV run.
2001: Trading resumes on Wall Street after an unprecedented 6-day closure following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. Pres. George W. Bush says bin Laden is wanted "dead or alive;" he also condemns violence against Arab-Americans.
Today in Music History
1931 - RCA Victor Records began demonstrations of the long-playing (LP), 33-1/3 RPM phonograph record.
1955 - Capitol Records released "Magic Melody, Part Two". The song consisted only of the last two notes of the musical phrase, "Shave and a haircut, two bits." It was the shortest song to ever to be released.
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Same-sex couple denied ceremony at B&Bs might act
Case could draw a line between personal and religious freedoms.
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Found: Star Wars planet with two suns
The 1977 movie Star Wars featured a planet with two suns called Tatooine. Now scientists said they have found the first real two-sun planet 200 light years away from Earth.
"After 35 years, science fiction has finally become reality," said Mr Alan Boss, a theoretical astrophysicist at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington and an author of the study on the planet released on Thursday by the journal Science.
The new planet, called Kepler-16b, is about the size and mass of Saturn, and moves in a circular orbit 65 million miles from its suns.
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Jump in US unemployment figures deals blow to hopes of relief
There is still no sign of any relief for the US jobs market as the latest weekly unemployment figures showed an unexpectedly big jump in new people claiming benefit.
A total of 428,000 people joined the jobless rolls last week, 11,000 more than the previous week and 10,000 more than economists had predicted. The figures are far above the 400,000 level at which economists believe unemployment can start to decline.
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Blacks, Whites and the Wedding Gap
The unmarried black woman is a figure of cultural fascination these days. Cable news specials, popular books by Steve Harvey and T. D. Jakes, the films of Tyler Perry, and newspaper articles about single black women and their children born out of wedlock send waves of dismay through the American public. The explanations offered for this phenomenon tend to be of two sorts: prurient accounts of black male promiscuity and irresponsibility, or caricatures of aggressive and unreasonable black women. It is rare for the popular media to include careful social or historical analyses. Rather, they are often purveyors of a moral panic presented without root or reason.
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Right-winger foresees end of America
But Mark Steyn's shoddy evidence, confused logic and witty style say more about the conservative psyche
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