It’s Thursday, May 8

Good morning and welcome to Therefore a.m., the morning news and talk show that treats you like you’re already awake. Aloha from your co-hosts Curt Brandao and Jeff Clark.

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On today’s show, 500 employees of JFK Airport in New York are getting trained in the technical aspects of … being nice.

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Quirks/2008/05/07/airport_workers_learn_how_to_be_nice/4370/

Also, a radio station in Philadelphia has hired a Flyers fan to protect the Rocky statue from Pittsburgh Penguin fans. The all-Pennsylvania Stanley Cup hockey championship series starts Friday.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/18723129.html

Next, a contraption from China has a crank or pedal that lets you power all your USB devices off the grid. Faster, faster!

http://nexus404.com/Blog/2008/05/07/low-tech-pedal-power-gadget-charger-comes-with-led-gives-you-a-workout-low-tech-power-station/
Finally, NASA is recruiting workers to stay in bed all day for 90 days. For $17,000. That’s a lotta sheep!

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/05/nasa-offers-500.html

All this pus SURFING THE WEBSTER’S and the opportunity to learn the context from which we ripped this DELEGATION QUOTATION: “We have to find out who would be the stronger candidate.”

Again, thanks for joining us out here in the middle of the Pacific.

Aloha!

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