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	8.2.2000/07:20
	Railway Women in Wartime.
				8.2.2000/07:10
				The British Empire may not be all that it once was, but, by golly, they don't fool around when it comes to rabies.
			8.2.2000/:6:55
			Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the kiddie pool!
8.2.2000/06:50
Reader Val, whose good eye for links makes me wish he had a weblog that we could read from time to time, sends this.
				8.1.2000/08:20
				My chances of my dying in an airplane crash when I fly from Chicago to Montreal next week are only one in 49,593,528, according to Am I Going Down.com.
		8.1.2000/08:10
		Personally, I think that privatization of Social Security is not just a bad idea for women, but for the country at large. While in principle it might be a good idea, I fear that in reality the combined forces of uninformed (stupid) investing and merciless scamming will reduce the nest eggs of many of those whose need is greatest.
	7.31.2000/19:55
	I like this simple, attractive gateway page.
				7.31.2000/19:47
				This is where we'll be in a few days, getting a break from the hot weather at home.
7.31.2000/19:45
My teenaged nephew has a brief rant on X-Men.
			7.30.2000/20:55
			Susan and I watched our DVD of Being John Malkovich this evening. Truly original film. Cameron Diaz hides her usually almost-too-beautiful self in a wondrous performance, and John Cusack is first-rate. It was Catherine Keener, however, who amazed the both of us; I only just learned that she got an Oscar nomination for the role. She has a long resume of solid work. Malkovich himself displays extreme virtuosity in doing the certainly-harder-than-in-looks job of playing Malkovich. I'll be curious to see this again once or twice.
	7.29.2000/05:05
	The current issue of the New Yorker (I won't bother to give you a link, as the site has no magazine content) has Nicholas Lemman's profile of Al Gore, which is very well worth reading; amongst other revelations is the observation of Gore's onychophagic lapses.
				7.29.2000/5:00
				A nice site for anyone with an interest in pharology, the word I learned for lighthouse-keeping, on the home page.
			7.29.2000/04:50
			Perhaps I should just consider this to be none of my business.
7.28.2000/08:20
Woonsocket, Rhode Island's St. Ann's Church is slated to close in a couple of months, and some locals there are trying to save the building for its collection of frescoes. The site invites participation from anyone who "would like to help us save this wonderful testament to faith and history of the Industrial Revolution." The site has a number of photos, although many are unfortunately a bit blurry (perhaps the scans?). If dwindling church finances are causing the building to lose its role in religion, how interesting that it may have a second life for its art and history...is this merely a shift in the way people worship?
				7.28.2000/08:10
				Snake on the loose! Read this story to the very end and you might be amused at its last paragraph.
		7.27.2000/07:55
		See how the rich and/or famous prepare for their own deaths, at Wills on the Web.
7.26.2000/09:05
A real treasure trove of information, in some cases wildly stitched together, about historical markers found at roadsides, etc.
			7.26.2000/08:55
			Longfellow's epic poem Evangeline is used as the centerpiece of this bilingual site that also gives much historical and current information about the Acadians who were expelled from northern Canada two and a half centuries ago and resettled in my neighborhood as Cajuns.
	7.26.2000/08:43
	Oh, man, I can't wait.
		7.25.2000/08:00
		Is this a bargain, or what?
				7.24.2000/21:30
				This afternoon, it was 88 degrees at a quarter to five, so I was able to go out and jog; one interesting facet of getting outside away from the air-conditioning is that it makes it possible once again to distinguish declensions of severe weather, and 88 degrees at a quarter to five is not, in late July, all that hot.
			7.24.2000/21:20
			Kansas fossils.
7.24.2000/07:22
It is actually only 69 degrees out this morning. Yesterday I'm not sure that it ever reached 80, as we were under cloud cover and in rain all day long. We woke up to the sound of rain yesterday morning and stayed in bed dozing until time to go to a friend's house for a breakfast get together. I jogged my miles at middday, when I like most to do so, but when it is most often too hot during the summer to step outside, much less huff and puff. It was all around rather glorious. We are under drought conditions these days, and miss the delicious break that the cycle of rains can bring. I grew up in south Louisiana, and having that rainy, lazy Sunday yesterday was a bit like the restoration of a birth right.
	7.24.2000/07:20
	A reader kindly sent in this very interesting link.
			7.23.2000/09:40
			I finished reading Larry McMurtry's Roads yesterday. I left it feeling disappointed, but disappointed in the way, I suppose, most complimentary to the author: I wanted more, much more. And to be fair, the book begins with several pages of disclaimers about all the it does not intend to be or do. The author drives, partly in an effort to continue to re-acquaint himself with a self that he lost touch with after a traumatic health episode, across big swaths of country on the great roads that criss-cross America. The writing about the roads themselves is wonderful, and when he does share a bit more in the way of history (personal and otherwise) and encounter, the book sings. I just wanted more! The other effect of this read is that by the time I finished the last page, I was itching to have my foot on the pedal...