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Wednesday, June 22, 2016
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PONDERABLE
"Technology [is] the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it."
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Bizarre But True
"What are the chances they would be Jacob sheep? What are chances a human cure could come from a farmer's curiosity about what was wrong with his lambs? Sometimes I ask myself, 'Can it all be coincidence?' "
Reality Check
In the 1990s, Europe tried to persuade Israel's Arab neighbors to accept it. Today, Israel quietly collaborates with its Arab neighbors as European states agitate over the Palestinian issue
Personal Growth
How you can choose your level of consciousness. You can process your emotions and choose the state you want to experience in any moment
Brave New World?
The first robot designed to violate Isaac Asimov's First Law of Robotics now exists, its creator says
Consumer Intelligence
Do you even know about them?
Life Skills
When a friend told me she'd just been diagnosed, I wasn't sure how to react
Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
The veggies of summer are just right for silky, green, and creamy minestrone
[ W O R T H 1 0 0 0 W O R D S ]
[ T O D A Y I N H I S T O R Y ] • 1633, the Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe
• 1807, a British frigate, the HMS Leopard, attacked and boarded the American ship USS Chesapeake off the Virginia coast in search of Royal Navy deserters
• 1825, British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America
• 1848, beginning of the June Days Uprising in Paris, the French workers' revolt
• 1870, the U.S. Department of Justice was created
• 1898, during the Spanish-American War: United States Marines land in Cuba
• 1937, Joe Louis began his reign as world heavyweight boxing champion by knocking out Jim Braddock in the eighth round of their fight in Chicago
• 1938, Joe Louis knocked out Max Schmeling in the first round of their rematch at Yankee Stadium
• 1940, during World War II, Adolf Hitler, ym"sh, gained a stunning victory as France was forced to sign an armistice eight days after German forces overran Paris
• 1944, President Roosevelt signed the "GI Bill of Rights"
• 1945, the World War II battle for Okinawa ended with an Allied victory; some 13,000 Americans and 90,000 Japanese soldiers, plus 130,000 civilians, were killed in the nearly three-month campaign
• 1970, President Nixon signed an extension of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that lowered the minimum voting age to 18
• 1977, John N. Mitchell became the first former U.S. Attorney General to go to prison as he began serving a sentence for his role in the Watergate cover-up. (He was released 19 months later.)
• 1999, the Supreme Court ruled the Americans with Disabilities Act does not extend to people with poor eyesight or other correctable conditions
• 2000, independent Counsel Robert Ray ended his investigation of the 1993 firings in the White House travel office, issuing no indictments but saying he'd found "substantial evidence" that First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton played a role in the dismissals
• 2004, practitioners of that "religion of peace" beheaded Kim Sun-il, a South Korean hostage who'd pleaded for his life in a heart-wrenching videotape; he was the third foreign hostage decapitated in the Middle East in little over a month.
• 2006, the Red Cross finally admitted Israel as a member and allowed it to use a Star of David as its symbol. ALSO: During a visit to Hungary to commemorate the 1956 revolt against communism, President Bush said war-weary Iraqis could learn from the Hungarians' long and bloody struggle against tyranny
• 2011, President Barack Obama announced he would pull home 33,000 troops from Afghanistan by the following summer. AND: James "Whitey" Bulger, the longtime fugitive Boston crime boss and fixture on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list, was arrested in Santa Monica, Calif.
• 2012, accused child-molester Jerry Sandusky, a former Penn State assistant football coach, was convicted on 45 abuse charges. He was sentenced to up to 60 years in prison
• 2013, the fiery crash of a stunt biplane at an air show in Dayton, Ohio, killed wing walker Jane Wicker and pilot Charlie Schwenker. "They were true, ultimate professionals," the show's president said
• 2015, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said the Confederate flag should be removed from the grounds of the state capitol, reversing her position on the divisive symbol amid growing calls for it to be removed
Monica Crowley: How Donald Trump is resurrecting the 'great silent majority'
Mark Davis: Can conservatives handle Trump?
Michelle Malkin: Horror and Hush-Up in Twin Falls, Idaho
News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: Scientific Breakthroughs
Garrison Keillor: A decade well-saved
John Stossel: Warning: Labels
Megan McArdle: Is your doctor willing to sell you out for the price of a sandwich?
Andrew Malcolm: Why the media has become such a target this election
Jonah Goldberg: England's Brexit issues mirror our own
David Ignatius: To be fixed, Europe needs a wrecking ball
Anne Applebaum: What started as an argument over tax and spending morphs into a debate about immigration and the preservation of Englishness in a dangerous world
Albert R. Hunt: Why you'll see Hillary Wall Street speeches soon
Byron York: Is Trump headed for a loss of ... ordinary Republican proportions?
Kathleen Parker: Did Trump ditch his campaign manager to appease evangelical Christians?
Michelle Boorstein & Julie Zauzmer: Abortion. Same-sex 'marriage'. Israel. Vice presidential picks. There's a lot evangelicals want to hear before they make up their minds about Trump
Walter Williams: Purification of America
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