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Sesame Street still Big Bird’s nest after 40 years
Not really news... but it's big. And probably one of the better kids shows on the air today.A bit of rough trade
POOR old De Beers is being harassed on all sides. Though the diamond giant claims everything is tickety-boo with resurgent sales, chairman Julian Ogilvie Thompson warns of 'the likely increases in the flow of rough diamonds from Angola and the US stockpile, and uncertainty over possible leakages of Russian goods'. All very ominous but cynics are also remarking on the coincidence that the £150 million recently raised on the capital markets equates neatly with the cost of the current final dividend payout.Big wedding: 20,000 gather for mass nuptials
ASAN, South Korea - Brides in white gowns and Japanese kimonos joined grooms in black suits and red ties Wednesday for the Unification Church's biggest mass wedding in a decade — a spectacle church officials say involves 40,000 people around the world.
The "blessing ceremony" is the church's largest since 1999, and may well be the last on such a grand scale officiated by the 89-year-old Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the controversial founder of the Unification Church.
Kim Kardashian: Sister's Wedding Best Night of My Life
It was a fairytale wedding for Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom – and the couple's lavish nuptials were magical for Kim Kardashian too. "Tonight was one of the best nights of my life!" Kim posted on Twitter after the elegant ceremony and reception held at a private residence in Beverly Hills on Sunday.
Drew Barrymore's Still Working Out Mother Issues
By Michael Y. Park
Drew Barrymore's got it all – except a good relationship with her mother. "I am okay with my dad, but my mom and I have yet to work it out," Barrymore, 34, says of her mother, Jaid, in the October issue of InStyle out Friday.
Insane killer escapes during trip to the fair
A criminally insane killer who escaped during a mental hospital field trip to a county fair remained on the run Friday, and furious residents and officials wondered why such a dangerous person was out in public. Authorities believe Phillip Arnold Paul, 47, is heading to the Sunnyside, Wash., area, where his parents and many siblings live. The Spokane County Sheriff's Office used a helicopter to search Friday, and officers also searched transient camps along railroad tracks in the area.Books Are Treasures
"Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too, that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence." - Jan Morris
"To read is to empower. To empower is to write. To write is to influence. To Influence is to change.
Joyful Heart
We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. - FREDERICK KOENIG
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always just beyond our grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. - NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. - HUGO BLACK
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or, more correctly, being loved inspite of yourself. - VICTOR HUGO
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. - MARCEL PROUST
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time. - JOSH BILLINGS
To get the full value of joy, you must have someone to divide it with. - MARK TWAIN
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. - HELEN KELLER
A happiness that is sought for ourselves alone can never be found: for a happiness that is diminished by being shared is not big enough to make us happy. - THOMAS MERTON
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. - RALPH WALDO EMERSON
The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour. - SIR JAMES JEANS
Happiness is not a destination: it is a manner of travelling. Happiness is not an end in itself.
How the states got the nicknames
Alabama Alabama has been known as the “Yellowhammer State” since the Civil War. The yellowhammer nickname was applied to the Confederate soldiers from Alabama when a company of young cavalry soldiers from Huntsville, under the command of Rev. D.C.Central Valley Disconnect: Rich Land, Poor Nutrition
California's Central Valley produces many of the fruits and vegetables consumed in America. It is also one of the poorest areas of the country. There are high rates of malnutrition and obesity, and residents have little access to fresh produce themselves.
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