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To: Justin C who wrote (58399)	2/3/2001 11:02:12 AM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

<<But I can never remember if it's 'shadow' or 'no-shadow' that is the more hopeful sign of Spring.>> No shadow is the end of winter. Puxatawney Phil, the official earth piggy, saw his- 6 more weeks of winter. Because of the colder weather and higher fuel costs it's getting harder to get pine shavings for horse bedding. The price has doubled. The mills are burning them for heat instead of trying to get rid of them.

To: Justin C who wrote (58399)	2/6/2001 2:05:11 PM
From: Justin C	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

We interrupt our regular programming, The North-South War: A DAR Perspective, to bring you A Moment With The Mathematician, featuring Keith Devlin of St. Mary's College who is contemplating the question "Why is math like gossip?" Mathematicians deal with a collection of objects -- numbers, triangles, groups, fields -- and ask questions like, 'What is the relationship between objects X and Y? If X does this to Y, what will Y do back to X?' It's got plot, it's got characters, it's got relationships between them, and it's got life and emotion and passion and love and hate, a bit of everything you can find in a soap opera. Tune in tomorrow for A Moment With The Country Gentleman, with Ish describing his pine-shaving-shortage-inspired innovation of bedding his horses in Shredded Wheat.