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Thursday, July 31, 2003

•••Math's Grim Story Problems From World magazine, August 2 issue: If you knew that the morning news, every single day for the next two years, would include word that yet another American had been killed in Iraq, how would that affect your attitude toward the war there? What about one American death per day for the next five years? Or two per day? Americans like bargains. And that probably includes peace and world stability. Yet how can you know whether you're getting a bargain unless you do the calculations? Compared to other wars, can it be this in Iraq is the 'safest' yet? Compared to other American citizens, can it be that a soldier has a better chance of dying in a car accident or drowning than being shot in Iraq? Honestly, I don't like asking questions like those -- or reading a story that says it has the answers to them. Sometimes math gets harder when it's a real-life story problem.   8:43:48 AM   googleit 176

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