Tuesday September 11, 2001 - The Arizona Daily Wildcat Online

Workers at a Mexican factory that produces UA clothing managed to successfully form a union last weekend after eight months of efforts and are in the process of negotiating a contract with factory owners.

The unionization of the Kukdong factory, which produces Nike merchandise for the UA, came as good news to Students Against Sweetshops member Rachael Wilson, who participated in a panel discussion on workers' rights with University of Arizona President Peter Likins and other campus leaders yesterday in front of Old Main.

Fast facts:

A balloon released into the jet stream would take two weeks to travel completely around the globe.

A good way to tell if aspirin has deteriorated is if it smells like vinegar.

A lion was the symbol for Dr Pepper's earliest ad campaign. It was used with the slogan "King of Beverages."

A perfectly clean fire produces almost no smoke. Smoke simply means that a fire is not burning properly and that bits of unburned material are escaping.

A person uses more household energy shaving with a hand razor at a sink than he would by using an electric razor.

A person who is lost in the woods and starving can obtain nourishment by chewing on his shoes. Leather has enough nutritional value to sustain life for a short time.

On this date: Tuesday Spetember 11th, 2001

All of President John Tyler's cabinet except Secretary of State Daniel Webster resigned in 1841 to protest Tyler's veto of the banking bill.

In 1875, "Professor Tigwissel's Burglar Alarm" appeared in New York's Daily Graphics newspaper. The 17 successive pictures filling a full page made the first comic strip published in a newspaper.

Waterbury Clock Company patented the first comic-character timepiece in 1877. It would be 56 years before the company produced the first Mickey Mouse watch.

Quotable...

"I giveth and I taketh away, that's how it goes�"
- Former security guard and alleged Sacramento, Calif. murderer Joseph Ferguson on why he killed five corworkers.