Morning Minute: September 3, 2010
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Website of the Day ProfessorPerformance.com
http://www.professorperformance.com
Teachers may not love these rating sites, but students seem to have no problem leaving feedback. Students rate professors on ease, interest, helpfulness and overall quality. Professors from certain colleges are more likely to receive multiple ratings.
Number to Know 7.6 million: Number of workers who hold down more than one job. So-called moonlighters make up 5 percent of the working population. Of these, 4 million work full time at their primary job and part time at their other job. - http://Census.gov
This Day in History Sept. 3, 2004: Beslan school hostage crisis: Day 3: The Beslan hostage crisis ends with the deaths of more than 300 people, more than half of which are children.
From "Looking Back" as published daily Sept. 3, 1960: Sondra Richardson was selected Miss Fall Festival of 1960 in the annual beauty pageant sponsored by the Eldorado Junior Woman's Club. Carletta Gibson was second-place winner and Charlene Gibson placed third.
Today's Featured Birthday
Olympic snowboarder Shaun White (24)
Daily Quote
"God sells us all things at the price of labor." - Leonardo da Vinci