UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE By Bill FrayerConditional Probability: Not So Simple Last spring, Lakeside resident Charlie Smith sent me a New York Times article entitled “Chances Are” by Steven Strogatz. The article discusses the importance of examining the actual numbers when assessing probability. The article presents the following scenario: Assume a population of women 40-50
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BRIDGE BY THE LAKE By Ken Masson Herself and I consider ourselves fortunate to have made many new friends during our first four “snowbird” seasons in Lakeside. It is even more gratifying that a number of them live within driving distance of our Northern home in Richmond Hill, Ontario so we can get together
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Editor’s Page Guest Editorial by Fred Mittag “Bring ‘Em Home, Send ‘Em To College” Obama was methodical and wanted to hear all views about a strategy for Afghanistan. But the consensus resulted in a flawed decision. Helen Thomas wrote that Obama failed to mention the greatest contrast between Vietnam and Afghanistan – the draft.
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Are Writers Born Or Made? By Harriet Hart Mary Rosenblum is a science fiction and mystery writer who published her first story in 1990 and her first novel The Drylands in 1993. It won the Compton Book Award for Best First Novel and since then she has penned seven more. From 1992 to 2002,
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GRINGAS & GUACAMOLE By Gail Nott Nudist Camp Etiquette One should always be open to new experiences. So, when my friend, Rick, invited me to spend the next Saturday at a nudist camp in Central Florida, I agreed without a moment’s hesitation. A hectic work-week allowed me little time to reflect upon my decision.
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Cocktails With Nefertiti By Herbert W. Piekow The first thing I noticed about her was the leopard spotted blouse and the way the spots moved on her ample breasts as she maneuvered towards where I sat alone enjoying my evening cocktail on Chapultepec Avenue. Most evenings, when I am in my Guadalajara apartment, I
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Refugio De Maria Fiction by James Tipton It was so dry in recent years that all of the pregnant women in the Sonoran village of Refugio de María worried that their sons would never grow to be as tall as their fathers. It was because of this they watched with concern the village dwarf,
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Letter to the Editor Dear Sir: Religion can be both frustrating and amusing. Some Protestant groups, with frightful fervor, resist the science of biology and geology. There is nothing more criminal to education than the Christian Right that dominates the Texas State Board of Education. They sabotage science and history in school textbooks by
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SELF-ESTEEM CHECK By Bill Franklin I think it’s time to check my self-esteem. Self-esteem, if you haven’t been paying attention lately, takes on real significance the moment yours is on the line. And sad to say, like a pain or headache you didn’t know you had, it comes on line the moment someone brings
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THREE PLACES AT ONCEOr Be Careful What You Wish For By Julie Elizabeth Mignard The soft ruffle of silk lay gleaming across Bettylou’s wrinkled palm. It was three things at once. “If only I could be three things at once,” she was thinking. It was a lovely lavender blue, periwinkle maybe, and wherever the
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