EPA OIG Semiannual Report to Congress, October 1, 2007 - March 31, 2008 (72 pages, PDF)

Employer Health Costs In a Global Economy - A Competitive Disadvantage For U.S. Firms, By Len Nichols, Sarah Axeen, New America Foundation, May 2008: "Although most Americans get health insurance through their employers, business leaders are increasingly united in their belief that rising health care costs threaten America’s competitiveness in the global economy. Business support for comprehensive health reform has been growing as a result."

“Happy Birthday to You" is the best-known and most frequently sung song in the world. Many--including Justice Breyer in his dissent in Eldred v. Ashcroft--have portrayed it as an unoriginal work that is hardly worthy of copyright protection, but nonetheless remains under copyright. Yet close historical scrutiny reveals both of those assumptions to be false. The song that became "Happy Birthday to You," originally written with different lyrics as "Good Morning to All," was the product of intense creative labor, undertaken with copyright protection in mind. However, it is almost certainly no longer under copyright, due to a lack of evidence about who wrote the words; defective copyright notice; and a failure to file a proper renewal application.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1111624
document and sound files http://docs.law.gwu.edu/facweb/rbrauneis/happybirthday.htm

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http://www.gethuman.com/

Eponym
gargantuan (gar-GAN-choo-uhn) adjective
Gigantic
[After Gargantua, a voracious giant, the father of Pantagruel, in a series of novels by François Rabelais (c. 1490-1553).]
A.Word.A.Day

Mesmerized by M words—nouns transformed
Moocher--moochee
Muser—musee

Mom
To Mom with Love
Donna Dean
April 30, 2008

So many memories she has given,
Made my life so worth living.
Handmade clothes for me to wear
And she always did my hair.

Home cooked meals and cookies too,
Kindness in her eyes of blue.
Made our house a real home.
Took the time to teach her own.

Soft and gentle, but firm was she.
Where could a better mother be?
There were four of us to rear,
But she always had good cheer.

Now we’re grown and looking back,
We can see what great impact.
Nothing ever could compare
To the love that she had shared.

All of us were truly blessed,
That’s our Mom, she gave her best!

May 9 is the birthday of poet Charles Simic, (books by this author) born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (1938). He described the war years when he was a child in Yugoslavia as "pure hell." He said, "Germans and the Allies took turns dropping bombs on my head while I played with my collection of lead soldiers on the floor. I would go boom, boom, and then they would go boom, boom.” When he was 15, his family moved to Paris. "My travel agents were Hitler and Stalin," he said.
The next year, he and his mother reunited with his father by joining him in New York. "If you came to New York in 1954, it was incredible. Europe was still gray; there were still ruins. New York was just dazzling. The family moved to a suburb outside of Chicago, and Simic attended the same high school in Oak Park that Hemingway did. He was appointed U.S. Poet Laureate in 2007.
When asked by an interviewer what advice he'd give to people looking to be happy, he said, "For starters, learn how to cook."
The Writer’s Almanac