
Amazon releases Kindle Kids’ Book Creator, a free tool to create illustrated children’s Kindle books

Amazon releases Kindle Kids’ Book Creator, a free tool to create illustrated children’s Kindle books

Great White Shark Attacks Kayakers off Plymouth, MA Coast

An oral history of Cheers
A great, long, nine page read. Highly recommended.
(http://www.gq.com/entertainment/movies-and-tv/201210/cheers-oral-history-extended)

Double mastectomy rates rising, but procedure does not reduce mortality
Women who underwent a bilateral mastectomy had no lower risk of death than women who had breast-conserving therapy with radiation. However, a unilateral mastectomy was linked to higher mortality.

Quantum Computers Closer To Reality Thanks To Single Laser That Stops Molecules In Their Tracks

Poll shows Massachusetts voters still overwhelmingly support casino law
(http://www.masslive.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/09/casino_law_massachusetts_poll.html)

Boston Athletic Association and New Balance drawing top runners to the City

Third Ebola-infected American is Dr. Rick Sacra, a 51 year old family physician from MA affiliated with UMass Memorial in Worcester, MA
UMass Memorial source (https://plus.google.com/118226981859831642815)
Image source (http://servicetoservants.com/onetimefiles/2009_12_12STone_Trip/Trip_Journal.htm)

College is still a good investment
A college degree today is worth $272,692 in lifetime wages — more than three times its value in the 1980s ($80,000) and more than double its value in the 1970s ($120,000)
(http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ny-fed-report–value-of-college-degree-144252957.html)

US urges Israel to reverse Palestinian land-grab plan
Israel plans to expropriate nearly 1,000 acres of Palestinian land in the Bethlehem area in the south of the occupied West Bank.
Washington, the United Nations and Egypt all called for an urgent rethink.
Amnesty International similarly denounced the Israeli plans, saying that it “appears to be the largest land grab in the occupied Palestinian territories since 1980”.
Image source (http://www.thedailystar.net/upload/gallery/image/arts/landgrab.jpg)