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Saturday, October 25, 2003 |
Fuzzy Math And Fuzzy Thinking By The Numbers. What's wrong with this picture? Direct quote from Brit Hume of Fox News, August 27, 2003: "Two hundred and seventy seven U.S. soldiers have now died in Iraq, which means that, statistically speaking, U.S. soldiers have less of a chance of dying from all causes in Iraq than citizens have of being murdered in California...which is roughly the same geographical size. The most recent statistics indicate California has more than 2,300 homicides each year, which means about 6.6 murders each day. Meanwhile, U.S. troops have been in Iraq for 160 days, which means they are incurring about 1.7, including illness and accidents, each day." [SciScoop]
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Congress Is Close to Eliminating a Privacy Law. Congress is poised to pass a law that would strike down rules in California intended to give people the power to stop companies from swapping their financial secrets. By Richard A. Oppel Jr.. [New York Times: Politics]
The States Rights crowd is at it again. Big business trumps the rights of states to pass laws protecting their citizens. And as the San Francisco Chronicle pointed out the other day, our new governor to be, who promised to stand up for the people against the special interests, has been totally silent on the matter.
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Canterbury Tales: digital copies of the originals. Oh, oh! This is very cool. Canterbury Tales go online. From the BBC: Internet users will be able from Friday to view the first editions of The Canterbury Tales online rather than having to visit the British Library where the original versions are kept. Geoffrey Chaucer's work - worth £4.6m - is made up of 24 stories told by pilgrims who are travelling from London to the shrine of St Thomas a Beckett in Canterbury. It has been a best seller since William Caxton first printed the stories - including The Miller's Tale and The Wife of Bath - in... [mirabilis.ca]
Very, very cool. Go directly to the British Museum site here.
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