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The following Forsooths are from the February 2008 issue of RSS NEWS. | |||
<blockquote>Twenty-six new cases of the inflammatory lung disease sarcoidosis [were seen amongst rescuers] in the first five years after 9/11. Five or fewer rescuers got sarcoidosis anually before 9/11.<div align=right>New York Daily News <br>21 September 2007.</div></blockquote> | <blockquote>Twenty-six new cases of the inflammatory lung disease sarcoidosis [were seen amongst rescuers] in the first five years after 9/11. Five or fewer rescuers got sarcoidosis anually before 9/11.<div align=right>New York Daily News <br>21 September 2007.</div></blockquote> | ||
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<blockquote>Actually, I like the Poles' second idea even better. Instead of re-enacting a battle, they suggested, the summiteers should re-sit advanced level mathematics. Voting weights should be based on the square roots of the member states' populations. (Pocket caclulators allowed.)<div align=right>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/06/24/do2402.xml The Sunday Telegraph <Br> 24 June 2007].</div></blockquote> | <blockquote>Actually, I like the Poles' second idea even better. Instead of re-enacting a battle, they suggested, the summiteers should re-sit advanced level mathematics. Voting weights should be based on the square roots of the member states' populations. (Pocket caclulators allowed.)<div align=right>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/06/24/do2402.xml The Sunday Telegraph <Br> 24 June 2007].</div></blockquote> | ||
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Revision as of 20:58, 5 February 2008
Quotation
One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fate from The Conduct of Life (1860, rev.1876)
Forsooth
The following Forsooths are from the February 2008 issue of RSS NEWS.
Twenty-six new cases of the inflammatory lung disease sarcoidosis [were seen amongst rescuers] in the first five years after 9/11. Five or fewer rescuers got sarcoidosis anually before 9/11.
New York Daily News
21 September 2007.
Actually, I like the Poles' second idea even better. Instead of re-enacting a battle, they suggested, the summiteers should re-sit advanced level mathematics. Voting weights should be based on the square roots of the member states' populations. (Pocket caclulators allowed.)