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To: Bilow who wrote (52525)10/17/2002 1:20:56 AM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Hey, Carl, here are some numbers for you to crunch.

The menu at the Coffee Garden at 900 East and 900 South in Salt Lake City has included a scrumptious selection of quiche for about 10 years.

The recipe calls for four fresh eggs for each quiche.

A Salt Lake County Health Department inspector paid a visit recently and pointed out that research by the Food and Drug Administration indicates that one in four eggs carries salmonella bacterium, so restaurants should never use more than three eggs when preparing quiche.

The manager on duty wondered aloud if simply throwing out three eggs from each dozen and using the remaining nine in four-egg-quiches would serve the same purpose.

The inspector wasn't sure, but she said she would research it.

Maybe the inspector should go to work helping CBS News cook its numbers. The network's Web site features an interactive guide on "guns in America," including a section on "kids and guns." Among the "facts" in this section: "For 10 to 24 year olds, firearms are the second leading cause of death--trailing only unintentional deaths (which include motor vehicles accidents and drownings)."

In order to make guns look menacing, in other words, CBS has to lump together all forms of "unintentional deaths" as if they were a single category, and it has to define "kids" so broadly as to include 24-year-olds.

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