Undernews: April 15, 2014
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THE PROGRESSIVE REVIEW
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People participating in the food stamp program outnumbered the women who worked full-time, year-round in the United States in 2012, according to data from the
Department of Agriculture and the Census Bureau.
In the Mad Men era college tuition averaged $478, but a computer cost $4.6 million
@Harpers - Boxes of cookies a Girl Scout sold in 2 hours this February outside a San Francisco marijuana dispensary: 117
News 4 U
Word: Death
The idea is to die young as late as possible - Ashley Montague
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. - - last words of Pancho Villa
If I shouldn't be alive
When the robins come,
Give the one in red cravat
A memorial crumb.
If I couldn't thank you,
Being just asleep,
You will know I 'm trying
With my granite lip! - Emily Dickinson
After the first death there is no other -- Dylan Thomas after an air raid.
Donations may be sent to the John Silber campaign or Humanitarian Aid to the Contras or play your favorite lottery
number. -- Death notice in Boston Globe for former Cambridge City Councilmember Daniel J. Murphy, 1990
Many men die at twenty-five and aren't buried until they are seventy-five -- Benjamin Franklin
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light. - Dylan Thomas
Sacred to the memory of my husband John Barnes who died January 3, 1803 His comely young widow, aged 23, has many
qualifications of a good wife, and yearns to be comforted. - Vermont gravestone
No dark colors and no crying - Funeral instructions from New Orleans jazz musician Lionel Batiste
Pocket paradigms
The greatest power of the mass media is the power to ignore. The worst thing about this power is that you may not even
know it's being used..- Sam Smith
Today in history
1935 - A windstorm moves from the Dakotas into the southern plains, lifting powdery soil into a 1,000-foot-high cloud — a
blizzard of black dust an muddy rain hundreds of miles wide. This year the winds rook an estiamted 850 million tons of
topsoil and within fiveyears, the Dust Bowl states had lost one third of their population.
1930 -- Police arrest over 100 Chicano farm workers for their union activities in Imperial Valley, California. Eight will be
convicted of so-called "criminal syndicalism." By 1933, California farm laborers see a five-year wage cut from 35 cents
to 14 cents an hour.
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