What's in the News

You always begin the day with two hours of reading that may very well not be related to what your students hav written.  Your favorite reading is the morning paper, which is delivered to your flower bed on your step garden by 4:00 AM.  the Datebook has a spread on a beautiful dancer, teacher now (like everybody else) memoirist, Janet Sassoon, but there's also a Robert Hurwitt review of a play, Gidion's Knot, in Berkeley about an "enigmatic" teacher and her parent-teacher conference with Gideon's mother, who's come to find out why her son has been suspended from fifth grade.  A popular Japaneses composer admits that he didn't write the pieces he's credited as writing and he's not really deaf.  (Mamoru Samurgagochi).Martin Luter King's sons want to sell their father's Bible and Nobel Peace Prcie to a private party, and his daughter things it should be in the public domain but doesn't have power over the estte.  People in charget of nuclear missile launches are cheating on their qualifying exams. A storm has left thousands in the dark in Harrisburg.  South Korea is one of the few countries that allow the farming of bears to extract bile for the traditional medicine, and the beas are sufering as is the business.  GI Joe will be 50 years old this December--just in time for Christmas.  Mick La Salle says that unlike the rule that a story has to show change in the protagonist, the move "Gloria" "is not really about change, but about the courage and the emotional discipline reuqired in order to tsay the same.  Leah Garchik, who was out of the country when Pete Seeger died, paid him tribute today.  She and her husband took their kids to Stern Grove to hear him sing.

You still clip, so you have infoo about the beached whales , 25 of whom died because they form close-knit pods that won't leave a sick whale behind.  The NSA has a mission to educate children on the importance of spying--the benefits of the NSA.  "In the world of diplomacy, knowing what your enemy is planning helps you to plrepare," the turlte says.  "But it is also important that your enemies do not know wha tyou hve planned...."  There's a "How Can I Work for the N.S.A.' section o the site--the NSA's CrytoKids website...
Texas wouldnt' let a brain-dead woman be disconnected because she was 2 months pregnant and they wanted to keep her plugged in until her baby could be delivered through a C-section.  I still can't get over the 17-year-old killed by her 14-year-old brother because he thought she'd bleached his clothes.  She had a 3-year-old daughter and worked at McDoald's so she was "just your typical kid."

You love the headline on susrveillance:  "U.S. seeks ways to prevent prying into NSA's spying."  SF leads the nation on the minimum wage.  Seniors go out to eat more than Millennials, and poulty and potatoes are still the two most common dinner foods.  Millennials are more likely to adopt special diet, like gluten-fee or vegan.  Forty-five percent have done so compares with 24 % of the Baby Boomers.  Traffic at quick-service restaurants is on the rise, accounting for 78P of restaurant experiences.

It was Saturday a wek ago that Mick La Salle wrote about MGM turning 90!