Chance News 34
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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
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.)