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Published on July 11, 2000
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OLAF FUB SEZ: American author Henry Wheeler Shaw ("Josh Billings"), who lived from 1818 to 1885, contended that "the soul has more diseases than the body." . . .
ON THIS DAY -- In 1533, Pope Clement VII excommunicated England's King Henry VIII. . . . In 1798, the U.S. Marine Corps was formally re-established by a congressional act that also created the U.S. Marine Band. . . . In 1804, Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounded former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton in a pistol duel near Weehawken, N.J. . . . In 1979, the abandoned U.S. space station Skylab made a spectacular return to Earth, burning up in the atmosphere and showering debris over the Indian Ocean and Australia. . . . In 1989, actor Laurence Olivier died at age 82. . . . TEACHER AS PEER -- A ninth-grade mathematics teacher at the Nichols School is completing a summer supercomputer workshop at the University at Buffalo along with 10 specially selected local high school students. Stacey McCulle says she decided to take part in the workshop along with the students to see how she might adapt some of the content for a course she is planning at Nichols. The workshop, offered by UB's Center for Computational Research, is designed to teach high school students how the world's most powerful computers solve the big questions in science. High school students and teachers interested in next summer's workshop may call UB mathematics professor E. Bruce Pitman, coordinator of the workshop, at 645-6500, Ext. 509. . . . To Lend an Ear Thank you for just listening When I have thoughts to share; Thank you for just listening -- It shows you really care. Listening is a magic thread That keeps our spirits live; And listening is the element For friendships to survive! -- Berta S. Cole FISHING AND DEERING -- Brothers Joe and John Janca were fishing for bass between Hamburg Town Beach and Meyer's Reef Thursday afternoon when they came into contact with a big one -- a doe swimming about 400 yards off the Lake Erie shoreline. "We figured that dogs had chased her into the water," said John Janca, a Ford worker from West Seneca. "When we heard her splashing, she was swimming in about 25 feet of water. We were afraid she would tire and possibly drown." Joe Janca, a Moog employee and resident of Blasdell, and his brother maneuvered their 14-foot boat (with a 10-horsepower motor) to help the animal get back to shore. After about 15 minutes, it reached shore and disappeared. . . . HAPPY BIRTHDAY -- Betty Williams, Danny Shaw, ShellyDeyell, Ann Kowal, Rose McCabe, Ted Perez, Donald Krista, Kathy Lojacono, Zoe Stablewski, Kristina Klausen, Jenna Kurzanski, Patrick Marren, Tyler David Collins, Terry Blake, Andrew Hauser, Collette Buchheit, Mary Jackson McWilson, Sue Merrill Sargent, Mary Lynnette McWilson.<
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