Quote of the day
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
Edwin Ernest Salpeter

Born: December 3, 1924
Died: November 26, 2008 (aged 83)
Bio: Edwin Ernest Salpeter was an Austrian Australian American astrophysicist. Born to a Jewish family, he emigrated from Austria to Australia while in his teens to escape the Nazis.