The Daily Fix from Sulekha (April 5, 2000)
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from Sulekha (http://www.sulekha.com) and The Fix Express
(http://www.fixexpress.com). Hope you keep a spring in your
step, a song in your heart and a smile on your face today.
Good Day!
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Feature Article
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"An Affair with Darkness," by Ojaantrik
http://www.sulekha.com/articles/ojaantrik_darknessl.html
Excerpt: It was well past midnight I think, when my pious
intentions received a rude shock.
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Quote: If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a
person.
- Jacques Barzun
Smile: Ways the Internet could become worse: Singapore lifts
its censorship rules and all Singaporean men take two months
off to spend their life at penthouse.com and dollbaby.com.
- Anonymous
Trivia: Whenever you go to a doctor, the nurse uses an
instrument to measure your blood pressure. What's the
instrument called? It has a simple name that is easy to
remember: sphygmomanometer. Bet even the nurses and
doctors don't know that!
- Compiled by: The Fix Express
Vocab: mundane: relating to this world, ordinary,
commonplace (syn. worldly, earthly) (e.g., And chaos theory,
which describes such mundane processes as the patterns of
weather and the dripping of faucets, is being interepreted as
opening the door for God to act in this world. [Sharon Begley
in Newsweek])
Event: Apr 5, 1992 - Peru ~ Peru became a military dictatorship
when President Alberto Fujimori suspended the Constitution
amid charges of corruption and growing separatist violence.
Birthday: Apr 5, 1908 ~ Bette Davis (American actress)
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