On this date in 1976 the Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars takes the first close-up, color photos of the planet's surface.

Print your lesson plans on colored paper. It will help you and subsitutes find them in the sea of paper that seems to engulf a teachers desk.

Can't boot from your Macintosh Hard Drive? Try booting up while holding down the command-option- shift-delete keys. With a system CD in the CD ROM drive this will cause the system to boot from the CD.

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