Friday August 31, 2001 - The Arizona Daily Wildcat Online

Students who have not yet paid their tuition or who owe the UA more than $25 have until 4 p.m. Tuesday to pay tuition and other fees before they are dropped from their classes.

As of Wednesday, 2,104 students had not yet paid, said Randy Richardson, interim vice president for Undergraduate Education.

Fast facts:

In parts of Greece and Italy, people say "no" by tossing their heads back and clucking their tongues.

Helen Keller, blind and deaf from an early age, developed her sense of smell so finely that she could identify friends by their personal odors.

Emily Dickinson wrote more than nine hundred poems, only four of which were published during her lifetime.

Napoleon Bonaparte was always depicted with his hand inside his jacket because he suffered from "chronic nervous itching" and often scratched his stomach sores until they bled.

On this date: Friday August 31st, 2001

The United States Congress passed legislation to create the first pre-stamped envelopes in 1852.

The body of Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols, the first victim of murderer "Jack the Ripper," was found in London in 1888.

The carbonated soft drink - Coca-Cola - went on sale in 1900 in Great Britain for the first time.

Officially, California officially became the most populous state in the United States in 1964.

Quotable...

"The two boys have their heads screwed on very well. I think it's all been fine, and they are incredibly well balanced."
-Earl Spencer, Princess Diana's brother, on the well-being of her two children on the fourth anniversary of her death.