Here are some interesting news items from TV, newspapers, and the Internet...
In the current U.S. job market, there are six applicants for each job opening.
Recently writing about Iraq and its future, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tom Ricks described the Iraq War as the biggest mistake in recent American history.
In 1950, life expectancy in the United States was 58 years. It is estimated that half of the babies born in the U.S. this year will live to the age of 100.
According to an article in the AARP Bulletin, Elizabeth Smith, 28, of Sumter, S.C., recently won a $2 million jury verdict after a dentist at a Florence, S.C., clinic extracted all 16 of her upper teeth--13 by mistake. Smith's attorney said she now has trouble eating and covers her mouth in conversation. Implants will cost about $80,000.
According to a New York Times poll, 65 percent of Americans want a public option included in the health care reform legislation.
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