Miracle Update: Window Clean, Virgin Gone New York Daily News

Two Florida teenagers discover they have the same name, birth date, Social Security number, and the coincidences don’t end there.

‘Oz’ author sought Indian genocide. L. Frank Baum wrote, a decade before the publication of ‘The Wizard…’:

The proud spirit of the original owners of these vast prairies, inherited through centuries of fierce and bloody wars for their possession,

lingered last in the bosom of Sitting Bull. With this fall the nobility of the redskin is extinguished, and what few are left are a pack of

whining curs.

“The whites, by law of conquest, by justice of civilization, are masters of the American continent, and the best safety of the frontier

settlements will be secured by the total annihilation of the few remaining Indians.

“Why not annihilation? Their glory has fled, their spirit broken, their manhood effaced; better that they die than live the miserable

wretches that they are. We cannot honestly regret their extermination. Lawrence (KS) Journal-World

Postcard delivered after 93 years. “A postcard delivered in the US 93 years after it was

originally sent contains only a one-word message –

“Hello”.

US Mail staff handed over the card at Joliet, Illinois,

after tracking down the relatives of its now deceased

addressee.” Ananova And whle we’re at it: Bottle-message washes up in NZ after 44 years.

Fear of Flying: Team of Aircraft Wiring Experts Finds Frequent Flaws in Jetliners; and : F.A.A. Is Ignoring Questions of

Defective Bolts, Audit Finds New York Times

Former advertisers speak… The rush is on to distance themselves from the controversial Dr. Laura show.

“…the largest mass poisoning of a population in

history… The scale of the environmental disaster is greater than any seen before; it is beyond the

accidents in Bhopal, India, in 1984, and Chernobyl, Ukraine,

in 1986.” Independent [via Robot Wisdom]

Who is buried in Yeats’ tomb?

There in the tomb the dark grows blacker,
But wind

comes up from the shore:
They shake when the

winds roar,
Old bones upon the mountain shake.

Irish Times [via Robot Wisdom]

Longevity is linked to IQ. “A study of 300 individuals spanning almost 70 years suggests that

intelligence, rather than social background, may determine

whether people enjoy good health and a long life.

People who sat an IQ test at the age of 11 in 1932 were ranked

in exactly the same order when they took the exam again at the

age of 77, showing that intelligence is stable throughout life. But

researchers also found that those with high IQs tended to live

longer because they made the right health decisions during their

lives.” Telegraph

Hazards of a healthy choice. Drinking low-fat rather than whole milk may more likely infect you with food-poisoning bugs. Small dairies use pasteurizing machines designed before the popularity of reduced-fat milk and, once modified to skim off the fat, often performing inadequate pasteurization, according to new research. New Scientist

Emerging Disese News: Global disease traced to tropical logging. “Logging and the accessibility it

offers to remote forests and to

wider hunting opportunities may

play a central role in the emergence

of new diseases that imperil human

health, according to a new study by

researchers from Johns Hopkins

University School of Public Health. ” Environmental News Network /i>