9/1: Agreements have been reached to buy the last pieces of land for a memorial to United 93, which crashed on 9/11. Plus: Some people develop tonsil stones. 9/2: New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has given at least $1 million to Franklin & Marshall College in honor of a deputy mayor, Patricia Harris. 9/3: Consumers can buy green-screen technology that allows them to insert themselves into certain movie scenes. 9/4: Parents in Houston don't want their kids to listen to a speech by President Obama out of fear that he'll indoctrinate them; the speech is about the importance of hard work and staying in school. 9/5: The White House will release its visitor logs "for the first time in modern history." 9/6: News websites in China, complying with secret government orders, are requiring that users log on under their true identities to post comments. 9/7: The U.S. military is looking into whether troops should be taking dietary supplements used by weight lifters to increase muscle mass. 9/8: The TSA limit for carry-on liquids is 100 milliliters (which is 3.4 ounces, not 3.0 ounces). 9/10: Roger Federer reached his 22nd consecutive semifinal at a major tournament, more than doubling the previous mark (10, Ivan Lendl). [9/11–20: Vacation in Italy.] 9/21: Canada is being stingy with the amount of time it's allowing foreign athletes to spend at 2010 winter Olympic venues in Vancouver. 9/22: Coal-fired power plants are testing pumping carbon dioxide into the earth instead of the air. Plus: The MRSA germ is turning up in pets—particularly cats—which are transmitting it to humans. Plus: There's a periodical called The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Plus: Many Russians think eating melons cleanses their systems. 9/23: The tensile strength of silk from a golden orb spider of Madagascar is five to six times stronger than steel by weight. 9/24: Data from three spacecraft indicate the widespread presence of water or hydroxyl molecules on the moon. 9/25: Using a metal detector, an unemployed British man discovered $1.6 million worth of Anglo-Saxon treasure probably dating from the seventh century. 9/26: A Kuwaiti man was the 30th Guantánamo detainee to be ordered released after a federal judge reviewed the evidence justifying detention (she called it "surprisingly bare"). 9/27: The U.S. Navy is considering allowing women to serve on submarines. 9/28: Former New York Times op-ed and "On Language" columnist William Safire was a college dropout. 9/29: "Outside" cats are decimating songbird populations. 9/30: China's state-controlled mobile service company has changed customers' ring-back tones to a patriotic song, "Guojia" ("Country"), sung by Jackie Chan.
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