Word: explainers
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...this year, I suspect I'll run into the same sort of disgust. Friends, lifelong New Yorkers, will shake their heads when I explain my decision to back the boys from Queens. Why not root for the Yankees? All that history! All those championships! All that money! But I'll stand firm. Joe Torre seems like a nice guy, but I find Bobby Valentine (and all his contract woes) even more winning. I named my cat after Bernie Williams, but I adore Mike Piazza. And in the end, I can't stand the idea of George Steinbrenner...
...explain this rather incongruous statement. Had the Mariners been victorious, the series would have gone to game seven, and "West Wing" would have been unceremoniously bumped from the Wednesday lineup; hence, go Yanks. And the debates denied loyal viewers their season premiere follow-up last week; hence I was interested in this week's debates primarily to see whether...
...contemporary trends in mathematics would surely be a convincing way to conquer these ghosts. Indeed, in fuzzy mathematics he has found a hot topic--it has beem the subject of more than 4000 research articles since its invention in 1965. Unfortunately, Bush's use of fuzzy arithmetic to explain Gore's positions, while an inspired political move, was somewhat lacking in detail. So, for the mathematically uninitiated, I'd like to spell out exactly what was meant by "fuzzy math...
Disorder this, disorder that--there are so many disorders to explain people who vary from the norm that it's insane. People are more than just chemical reactions, and we do not all need to be clones of the same prototype. I applaud the Lipscombs for doing the best they can and striving for better. CAROLYN SUAREZ Olympia, Wash...
...PANTS Infancy may seem a little early for worry about a boy's sperm count, but maybe that's when it should start. A new study in the Archives of Disease in Childhood suggests that the use of disposable diapers may explain the increase in male infertility over the past 25 years. Diapers lined in plastic significantly increase the temperature of the scrotum. If the heat is too high, it may affect testicular development and reduce the number of healthy sperm later in life...