Tuesday, September 5, 2006

Spotlight
Happy birthday to Cathy Guisewite, creator of the popular comic strip, "Cathy." Guisewite, born in 1950, received an Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program for the TV special, Cathy (1987). In the comic strip, Cathy presents the problems, frustrations and idiosyncrasies of today's women. For many years, Cathy was single, looking for love, job satisfaction and the perfect diet. In 2005, she married her longtime on-again, off-again, on-again boyfriend, Irving.

Quote
"Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups." — Cathy Guisewite

Word of the day
glabella -- the space between the eyebrows, just above the nose (© )

Today's News

• Iraq: capture of al-Qaeda leader fails to slow violence (story)
• Ehud Olmert: Israeli PM freezes West Bank pullout plan (story)
• Airbus 380: world's biggest jumbo jet takes off on test flight with full load of passengers (story)
• Cher: to auction off personal effects (story)

Today's History

• Continental Congress: delegates convened in Philadelphia in response to the British Intolerable Acts (1774)
• On the Road: stream-of-consciousness novel by Jack Kerouac was published (1957)
• Munich Massacre: Palestinian terrorists of Black September murdered 11 Israeli athletes at the Summer Olympics (1972)

Today's Birthdays

• Jesse James: outlaw (1847-1882)
• Raquel Welch: actress and model (66)
• Michael Keaton: actor, Batman (55)