Monday February 1, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN (Monday February 1, 2010)
(1)- NEW OSAMA INSIGHTS - “I remember staring into his kindly eyes, tartly thinking to myself that my cousin was shyer than a virgin under the veil.” Najwa Ghanem recalls meeting 16-year old Osama bin Laden before she became his first wife:

(2)- EUROPE VS AMERICA -- Which has the superior economic model, the United States or Europe? The question keeps coming up and never gets resolved. It is having another go-round at the moment, with the adversaries lining up as usual.

(3)- ADVICE --Former journalist William Zinsser whose fame is based on his writing advice, has long preached word thrift and denounced clutter. He is widely seen as Pontiff of good prose in an age crimped by time and technology.

(4)- ZINN IS GONE -- Howard Zinn, a maverick historian whose landmark leftist manifesto "A People's History of the United States" became a cultural touchstone for a generation, died on Wednesday in Santa Monica, California, at the age of 87.

(5)- INDIA'S DIVERSITIES -- The pluralism and diversity that has defined spiritual life on the Indian subcontinent for centuries continues to transcend the divisive politics of religion and preserve the possibilities of coexistence.

(6)- ALBINO DEER -- These are the amazing pictures of an incredibly rare baby albino deer dubbed 'White Bambi' hiding with its mother in the Italian wilderness.
The little fawn, thought to be only eight months old, was sighted in the woods by walkers.

(7)- DON'T PASS THE ... Shaving 3 grams off the daily salt intake of Americans could prevent up to 66,000 strokes, 99,000 heart attacks and 92,000 deaths in the United States, while saving $24 billion in health costs per year.

(8)- OBVIOUSLY -- Men and women alike feel better — emotionally and physically — from Friday evening through Sunday afternoon, regardless of their age, education, salary, marital status or how many hours they work, a new study says.

(9)- IT HURTS – A study says US soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan are more likely to be withdrawn from the battlefield due to back or joint pain than combat injuries and evacuees in Germany has increased psychiatric disorders.

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