The Elysian Fields, or Elysium, would be closest to what most people consider "heaven" to be like. The Elysian Fields were described as a wonderful place, where everything was delightful. There were soft green meadows, lovely groves, a delicious life-giving air, sunlight that glowed a soft purple, and everyone was happy and peaceful. The sound of music played on pipes and lyres filled the air. ttp://www.dl.ket.org/latin1/mythology/1deities/underworld/elysian.htm

artiodactyl (ahr-tee-o-DAK-til) adjective
Having an even number of toes on each foot.
From Greek artio- (even in number, perfect) + -dactyl (toed, fingered). The mammal order Artiodactyla is made up of animals such as pig, camel, and giraffe. Those having an odd number of toes are called perissodactyl, from Greek perisso- (uneven, strange). Examples: horse, tapir, and rhinoceros.
oligopoly (ol-i-GOP-uh-lee) noun
A market condition where there are few sellers.
From Greek oligo- (few) + -poly, patterned after monopoly, from polein (to sell).
Here's a little chart that explains it all:
monopoly: one seller, many buyers
duopoly: two sellers, many buyers
oligopoly: a few sellers, many buyers

monopsony: one buyer, many sellers
duopsony: two buyers, many sellers
oligopsony: a few buyers, many sellers
From Greek opsonia (purchase).
A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg

J. D. Salinger, who was thought at one time to be the most important American writer to emerge since World War II but who then turned his back on success and adulation, becoming the Garbo of letters, famous for not wanting to be famous, died on January 27 at his home in Cornish, N.H., where he had lived in seclusion for more than 50 years. He was 91. Mr. Salinger’s literary reputation rests on a slender but enormously influential body of published work: the novel “The Catcher in the Rye,” (1951) the collection “Nine Stories” and two compilations, each with two long stories about the fictional Glass family: “Franny and Zooey” and “Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction.” http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/books/29salinger.html?hpw

Totaling over 1.9 million square feet, Aqua Tower in Chicago is an 82-story mixed-use high-rise that includes a hotel, apartments, condominiums, parking and offices. See pictures at: http://www.contemporist.com/2009/11/24/the-aqua-tower-by-studio-gang-architects/
Architect Jeanne Gang started with a fairly conventional rectangular glass slab, then transformed it by wrapping it on all four sides with wafer-thin, curving concrete balconies, describing a different shape on each floor. The balcony overhangs of the façade serve an environmental purpose, shading apartments from the hot summer sun. More ingenious still, they protect the building from the force of wind, one of the most difficult challenges in skyscraper engineering. The landscape of rolling hills and valleys created by the balconies effectively confuses the heavy Chicago winds, giving them no clear path. The wind is broken up so much that the building didn’t require a device known as a “tuned mass damper”—a mass weighing hundreds of tons that engineers place at the top of tall buildings to stabilize them against the vibrations and sway caused by the force of wind. Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/skyline/2010/02/01/100201crsk_skyline_goldberger#ixzz0duZkYrVj

Q: Is "the old mill stream" really the Blanchard River?
A: Indeed it is. The Republican-Courier said so.
Tell Taylor (1876-1937) composed "Down by the Old Mill Stream" in 1910.
When Taylor died visiting Chicago on Nov. 24, 1937, we reported:
"The song was written by Mr. Taylor while he was fishing in the Blanchard near the golf green located along the road as one enters the country club ground from the west."
See rest of the story plus information on highest and lowest zip codes and chain e-mail at: http://www.thecourier.com/Opinion/columns/2010/Jan/JU/ar_JU_010410.asp?d=010410,2010,Jan,04&c=c_13

Comedian and writer Conan O'Brien was born on April 18, 1963 in Brookline, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, the son of Ruth (née Reardon), an attorney and partner at the Boston firm of Ropes & Gray[4], and Thomas O'Brien, a physician, epidemiologist and professor of medicine at Harvard.[5][6][7] He is the third of six children. O'Brien's family was Irish Catholic and descended from pre-Civil War era immigrants;[7] In a Late Night episode, O'Brien paid a visit to County Kerry, Ireland, where his ancestors originated. O'Brien attended Brookline High School, where he served as the managing editor of the school newspaper.[7] In his senior year, O'Brien won the National Council of Teachers of English writing contest with his short story "To Bury the Living."[8] After graduating as valedictorian in 1981, he entered Harvard University.[9] He graduated magna cum laude in 1985 with an A.B. in History and Literature.[11] His senior thesis concerned the use of children as symbols in the works of William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor.[12] Throughout college, O'Brien was a writer for the Harvard Lampoon humor magazine. He also briefly served as the drummer in a band called "The Bad Clams".[13] During his sophomore and junior years, he served as the Lampoon's president.[14] O'Brien, like many Saturday Night Live writers, occasionally appeared as an extra in sketches; his most notable appearance was as a doorman in a sketch in which Tom Hanks was inducted into the SNL "Five-Timers Club" for hosting his fifth episode. O'Brien returned to host the show in 2001 during its 26th season. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conan_O'Brien

Days after he was ditched as host of "The Tonight Show" by NBC, Conan O'Brien's production company has sold an hour-long pilot to the network, it was reported January 27. The untitled O'Brien project, known as "Justice," was written by John Eisendrath and was described as a new take on a law show with a larger-than-life character at the center, The Hollywood Reporter said. In addition to buying the pilot, NBC ordered another concept show, from O'Brien's company Conaco, a multicamera comedy dubbed "The Pink House." Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/tv/conan_sells_two_pilots_to_nbc_Ijvq0wzaWdAVxDpbf4HcwM#ixzz0dvRljX9U