Today's Highlights:
Thursday, September 20, 2007
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Spotlight: If you live in one of the communities that currently bans outdoor clotheslines, you may find that the winds may be changing. According to the Boston Globe, 91 percent of detached single-family homes in the US have a clothes dryer, and a single electric dryer can blow 1,500 pounds of carbon monoxide into the air each year. Now, there is a growing "right-to-dry" movement; some states are working on legislation to overturn bans on clotheslines. And a new industry has sprung up: clotheslines are being manufactured to meet the growing demand.
Quote:
"When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!"
Word of the day: madrigalA Renaissance choral piece, usually unaccompanied.
Usage: Madrigals have been around since the 14th century.
For the music lover and the merely curious, the Music Glossary provides definitions of hundreds of words associated with music, from a cappella to Zwischenspiel.
Today's News:
- Los Angeles: drivers spend an average 72 hours a year stuck in traffic (story)
- sea turtles: hatchlings' hidden home revealed (story)
- J. Lo: expecting child along with husband Marc Antony (story)
Today's History:
- Ferdinand Magellan: explorer set sail to circumnavigate the globe (1519)
- Papal States: were seized from the French by Italian troops (1870)
- civil rights: Mississippi governor Ross Barnett personally blocked entrance of African-American James Meredith to University of Mississippi (1962)
- Billie Jean King: won a battle-of-the-sexes tennis match against Bobby Riggs; 30,000 attended and millions watched on TV (1973)
Today's Birthdays:
- Upton Sinclair (1878-1968): writer/reformer, The Jungle
- Joyce Brothers (79): psychologist/advice columnist
- Sophia Loren (73): Italian actor/sex symbol
