Today's Highlights
July 24, 2008 
Wonderful, Wonderful
Copenhagen
Quote: "The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances."
Questions of the Day
Denmark was found to be the world's happiest country but is it also the world's richest?
No. It just goes to prove that money doesn't buy happiness. The United States is the world's richest nation, but only ranks at No. 16 on the list of happiest countries. Denmark and the other countries that ranked highest in the study (conducted by the World Values Survey and directed by the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research) are all prosperous, however. More
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Today in History
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- Gamal Abdel Nasser: led the Egyptian army in an overthrow of King Farouk I (1952)
- 12th Street riot: police raid at a blind pig sparked 5 days of race riots in Detroit; 43 people died and 2,000 buildings burned down (1967)
- Hale-Bopp: comet was discovered by Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp (1995)
- Tiger Woods: at 24, became the youngest golfer to win a career Grand Slam (2000)
Today's Birthdays
Nomar Garciaparra
- Raymond Chandler (1888-1959): novelist who created Philip Marlowe; also, author Elio Vittorini (1908-1966)
- Haile Selassie (1892-1975): emperor who modernized Ethiopia and claimed to be descended from King Solomon
- Don Imus (68): controversial DJ; musicians born on this date include David Essex (61), Blair Thornton (58), Slash (43), Sam Watters (38), Alison Krauss (37) and Michelle Williams (28)
- Philip Seymour Hoffman (41): Oscar-winning actor, Capote, The Savages; also, actors Ronny Cox (70), Woody Harrelson (47), Eriq La Salle (46), Charisma Carpenter (38), Marlon Wayans (36), Omar Epps (35) and Daniel Radcliffe (19)
- Nomar Garciaparra (35): an artful Dodger
Word of the Day
Coined by William Gibson in his 1984 novel "Neuromancer," it is a futuristic computer network that people use by plugging their minds into it! The term now refers to the Internet or to the online or digital world in general.
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