The 10 millionth baby boomer will turn 50 at 1:20 a.m. Chicagotime on May 17, if QT's calculations are correct, and they may not beif the past is any indication, so let's not get too excited yet.Grand gesture
Twentieth Century Fox, having acknowledged complaints that itsmovie may have incorrectly portrayed R.M.S. Titanic First MateWilliam Murdoch as a murderer and bribe-taker, announced it will give$8,000 to a fund honoring his memory.
Don't knock yourself out, Twentieth Century Fox.Mir crackedNews Item: Two Russian cosmonauts are forced to cut short aspacewalk during which they were to repair a bent solar panel becauseof problems with a thruster engine.Get out of that thing.Get out of it now.Martha's big turn-onMartha Stewart announced she will hook up her hoses on April 15.Don't squeeze the statisticsCharmin wants you to know that the average American goes through74.3 rolls of toilet paper a year and uses 8.6 sheets a trip for anaverage of 57 sheets a day, which comes to 6.6 trips a day, andCharmin, at the request of QT, is working on an answer to thequestion of how one makes .6 of a trip to the bathroom, so we willhave to wait.Serious as a heart attackNearly 50 percent of heart attack victims delay seeking help forat least 12 hours because they think they are suffering from a virus,lack of sleep or indigestion, British researchers found.That is today's day brightener for those of you coming off theflu, five hours of sleep and two bagel dogs for lunch.Chime in anytime"Chimes," the Chicago area Mensa newsletter, has noted that twoMensa members, Gerri Sue Hesselberg of Des Plaines and MarcellaPerunko of Park Forest, have contributed items to QT.Only two?No ifs about itMaj. Gen. George Friel of the U.S. Army Chemical andBiological Defense Command on the chances of a major biological orchemical terrorist attack on the United States:"It's no longer a question of if."That is your millennium countdown message for today.Contributing: Susy Schultz, Associated Press
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