The first observance of Labor Day is believed to have been a parade of 10,000 workers on Sept. 5, 1882, in New York City. By 1893, more than half the states were observing a "Labor Day" on one day or another, and Congress passed a bill to establish a federal holiday in 1894. President Grover Cleveland signed the bill soon afterward, designating the first Monday in September as Labor Day. .As of May 2010, there are 154.4 million people 16 and older in the nation's labor force. See more statistics at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2010/09/02/GR2010090204284.html

Carbon is a remarkable little atom. When it’s arranged in sheets, it’s soft as pencil lead. Arrange it in crystals, and it’s hard as diamonds. On September 4, 1985, three scientists trying to figure out the structure of a carbon molecule known as C60 began playing around with toothpicks and jellybeans. One of them began sticking his jellybean atoms together in the shape of alternating pentagons and hexagons. Interestingly, his structure began to curve into a ball. To the scientists, the sphere created this arrangement of candy and sticks looked an awful lot like the geodesic dome built by visionary architect R. Buckminster Fuller in 1967 for the world’s fair in Montreal. As it turned out, the jellybean model of C60 was correct, and the molecule discovered was named “buckminsterfullerene” after its inspiration.
http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2010/09/happy-25th-birthday-to-the-buckyball/#ixzz0ye38QglS

The Month Poem (one of over 70 versions)
30 days hath September,
April, June, and November.
All the rest have 31
but February’s the shortest one.
With 28 days most of the time,
until Leap Year gives us 29. http://www.leapyearday.com/30Days.htm

When choosing fats, olive oil is a healthy choice. Olive oil contains monounsaturated fat, a healthier type of fat that can lower your risk of heart disease by reducing the total and low-density lipoprotein (LDL, or "bad") cholesterol levels in your blood. According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), consuming about 2 tablespoons (23 grams) of olive oil a day may reduce your risk of heart disease. You can get the most benefit by substituting olive oil for saturated fats rather than just adding more olive oil to your diet. All types of olive oil contain monounsaturated fat, but "extra-virgin" or "virgin" olive oils are the least processed forms, so they're the most heart healthy. Those types contain the highest levels of polyphenols, a powerful antioxidant that also can promote heart health.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/food-and-nutrition/AN01037

People have used olive oil for centuries for personal care. It is a great skin moisturizer, in part because it contains linoleic acid, a compound not made by the body, but which prevents water from evaporating. According to Leslie Baumann, M.D., author of The Skin Type Solution, consuming olives and olive oil can promote healthy skin, as can applying it directly as a moisturizer. You can also add a bit of olive oil to a warm bath for a good healthy soak. Olive oil can also provide a safe and natural lubricant for a close shave. As a soothing aftershave, rub in an extra teaspoon of the stuff after rinsing off. Similarly, olive oil can soothe chapped lips. To polish wood, use two parts olive oil mixed with one part lemon juice.
http://www.thedailygreen.com/green-homes/latest/olive-oil-benefits-uses-460609

Richard Dawkins is a retired professor at Oxford University and he introduced the word meme in his 1976 book, "The Selfish Gene." He defined it as a unit of cultural transmission, a new kind of replicator that follows the rules of Darwin's natural selection. Anything that's copied, anything that's imitated, so something like a tune that you hear whistled, clothes fashions or shoe fashions or hat fashions. These things spread through the population like a measles epidemic, and then they may jump to another population; they may decay. The whole thing looks very like the spread of a virus. He wanted a word that was sort of a monosyllable, a bit like gene, and had some kind of connection with the idea of imitation. Dawkins asked a classical scholar, who produced a word mimeme as a unit of imitation and he abbreviated it to meme.
http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=129535048

Recommended author: Khaled Hosseini, author of two novels
The Kite Runner (ISBN 1-59448-000-1) is the story of a young boy, Amir, struggling to establish a closer rapport with his father and coping with memories of a haunting childhood event. The novel is set in Afghanistan, from the fall of the monarchy until the collapse of the Taliban regime, and in the San Francisco Bay Area, specifically in Fremont, California. Its many themes include ethnic tensions between the Hazara and the Pashtun in Afghanistan, and the immigrant experiences of Amir and his father in the United States. The novel was the number three best seller for 2005 in the United States, according to Nielsen BookScan. The Kite Runner was also produced as an audiobook read by the author. The Kite Runner has been adapted into a film of the same name released in December, 2007. Hosseini made a guest appearance towards the end of the movie as a bystander when Amir buys a kite which he later flies with Sohrab. Hosseini's second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns (ISBN 1-59448-950-5), the story of two women of Afghanistan, Mariam and Laila, whose lives become entwined, was released by Riverhead Books on May 22, 2007, simultaneous with the Simon & Schuster audiobook. Movie rights have been acquired by producer Scott Rudin and Columbia Pictures.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaled_Hosseini
http://www.unhcr.org/45d574692.html?gclid=CPuTmtHw4aMCFcEz5wodMBW7aA