Sunday, May 8, 2005

 

Spotlight: Today is dedicated to appreciating our mothers. In a recent study sponsored by salary.com, it was determined that an average stay-at-home mother would earn $131,471 annually, including overtime, if she received a paycheck. With the average mom filling the jobs of day care teacher, housekeeper, cook, driver, nurse, maintenance worker and CEO, it was estimated that she works about 100 hours a week, and would be entitled to a base pay of $43,461, with an additional $88,009 for 60 overtime hours a week. Happy Mother's Day! (story)

Quote: "By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class." -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Word of the day: enate: someone related on the mother's side (© )

Holiday: Mother's Day

Today's News:

• operating systems: going the way of the floppy disk? (story)
• Greenspan: Fed Reserve chairman issues Fannie, Freddie warnings (story)
• Al Gore: to get Webby Award for Internet (really) (story)

Today's History:

• Mount Pelée: Martinique volcano killed 40,000 (1902)
• Coca Cola: John S. Pemberton sold his elixir for the first time, in an Atlanta pharmacy (1886)
• VE Day: U.K., U.S. celebrated defeat of the Third Reich in WWII
; Soviets celebrated one day later (1945)

Today's Birthdays:

• Henri Dunant: founder of the Red Cross (1828-1910)
• Harry S. Truman: 33rd POTUS (1884-1972)
• musicians: Ricky Nelson (1940-1985), Toni Tennille (62), Alex Van Halen (52)