January third

Five years ago: The Postal Service raised the price of a first-class stamp to 32 cents. Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo announced an emergency plan for wage and price controls and budget cuts to stabilize the peso and combat spiraling inflation.

One year ago: Chicagoans dug out from their biggest snowstorm in more than 30 years. Israeli authorities detained 14 members of Concerned Christians, a Denver-based cult, later expelling all of them. (Israeli officials feared the group was plotting violence in Jerusalem in order to bring about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.)

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每日格言

%26quot;Experience is a wonderful thing; it enables you to recognize a mistake every time you repeat it.%26quot;