I found out yesterday evening that Peter Jennings, the face of ABC world news, died of lung cancer at the age of 67.

[... ]A Canadian by birth, Jennings was known for his dry, understated delivery and for his international outlook, honed by years as a foreign correspondent. Jennings also anchored the ABC evening news from 1965-67, which at the time made him the youngest network anchor in TV history. After a long period in other roles, he was named the sole anchor of World News Tonight in 1983. Jennings announced in April of 2005 that he had been diagnosed with lung cancer, but would continue to work as much as possible. He never returned to the air, passing away four months later. According to ABC, "A former smoker who quit 20 years ago, Jennings resumed smoking briefly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks"... Jennings became a U.S. citizen in 2003.

Since 1983... that's just about the time I started paying attention to what was going on around me, and watching and understanding the news. For as long as I can remember, Peter Jennings was there as the anchor during all the events that have happened in my lifetime - the 1984 Olympics, the Challenger accident, the earthquake in San Francisco, the fall of the Berlin Wall... to the events of 9/11. I could go on, but you get the picture. I hadn't heard that he'd been diagnosed with lung cancer, so the news yesterday was very surprising, and quite sad. He was indeed an icon that you expected would be around forever.

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Via the Discovery Channel" Egyptologist Discovers Ancient Gossip

Ancient Egyptians gossiped about a bald queen, royals who had affairs, missing bodies, homosexuality, harem intrigue and more, according to a noted Egyptologist.

Lisa Schwappach-Shirriff, curator of California's Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, which houses North America's largest collection of Egyptian artifacts, recently found evidence for tabloid-like gossip in the museum's eclectic archives and elsewhere. The findings suggest humans always have enjoyed chatting about personal or sensational information concerning others.

They also reveal what officials communicated through their official artwork and hieroglyphics.

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