Almanac March 6 2013 highlights and birth list
Today's almanac notes the 65th day of 2013 and the 76th day of winter. It lists historic events from 1836, 1899, and 1981, then birthdays for figures like Michelangelo, Cyrano de Bergerac, Lou Costello, and Shaquille ONeill. It notes Oreo first priced at 25 cents per pound in 1912 and the moon phase between March 4 and March 11.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alamo
Texas
Friedrich Bayer & Co
Walter Cronkite
CBS Evening News
Michelangelo
Cyrano de Bergerac
Lou Costello
Will Eisner
Ed McMahon
Alan Greenspan
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Rob Reiner
Connie Britton
Shaquille O’neal
National Biscuit Co
Nabisco
Sequester critique outlines flaws and fallout
Eugene Robinson argues the sequester is a misguided, partisan tool causing budget pain with 85 billion in cuts. He notes uneven impacts on defense, Medicare, and other programs while faulting both parties for miscalculation and inaction and urges real reform beyond blame.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kessler
Republic
Pentagon
United States
GOP
Casey Stengel
Obama
Democratic Party
Water cooler culture drives innovation and Office telecommute debate
In a column the author argues collaboration fuels innovation, citing Picasso Braque and Bell Labs as models. It contrasts cities and water cooler talk with remote work at Yahoo under Marissa Mayer, noting tensions with mothers and calls for face to face interaction in tech firms like Apple and Google. The piece reflects on the cultural value of in person discourse and the nostalgia for a newsroom community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marissa Mayer
Yahoo
Pablo Picasso
Avignon
Picasso
Georges Braque
Paris
Museum of Modern Art
New York
Picasso and
Braque
Silicon Valley
Silicon Alley
Route 128
Stanford
Mit
Mayer
At&t
Bell Labs
Manhattan
Murray Hill
N.J
Mervin Kelly
Jon Gertner
Idea Factory
Apple
Google
Reforming Medicare to Cut Waste and Costs
Charles Lane argues for accelerating nationwide competitive bidding to cut Medicare overpayments in DMEPOS and beyond. He cites CMS findings of waste, reports on pilot programs, and industry lobbying, urging expansion to 2014 for DMEPOL and 2015 for devices and imaging, with projected savings of 38 billion over a decade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Wall Street Journal
Virginia
Michael April
Montgomery County
Medicare
Centers For Medicare & Medicaid Services
Washington
Inspector General
Government Accountability Office
Congress
U.S
Dmepol
House
Tom Price
R-Ga
Joe Wilson
R-S.c
Center For American Progress
Drone sightings prompt safety fears near JFK and Denver
A pilot reported a small unmanned aircraft near an Alitalia jet on final approach to Runway 31 Right at JFK, about four to five miles west at 1,500 feet. FAA notes drones must stay under 400 feet and away from aircraft, while FBI investigates a 200‑foot distant drone described as black and three feet wide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amazon
North Dakota
New York
FBI
Alitalia
Jfk
FAA
Denver
Syracuse
N.Y
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Syria
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U.S. Capitol
Arne Duncan
Washington Post
Glenn Kessler
Eugene Robinson
Eugenerobinson
Washpost.com
Richard Cohen
Cohenr
Washpost
Charles Lane
Cal Thomas
Afghanistan
Arizona
Congressional Research Service
Ryan Gallagher
Future Tense
Arizona State University
New America Foundation
State
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