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...Through some clear, clever graphics, all this is spelled out in Wordplay. What you won't learn in the movie is that the puzzle's constructor, Jeremiah (Jerry) Farrell - a Butler University professor of, what else, mathematics - had submitted a simpler version to the Times for election Day 1980, with CARTER and REAGAN as the interchangeable words. Maleska turned it down, supposedly asking, "What if John Anderson wins?" (I still shake my head in wonder at Farrell's brilliance, and Maleska's myopia.) Sixteen years later, Farrell revived and revised the idea. Though Shortz typically revises about half...
...once you got past the apples, bananas and peaches. But more stores are carrying persimmons, kiwi berries, starfruit and other exotic fruits. "Kiwi was rare 20 years ago," says David Feder, dietician and managing editor of Wellness Foods Magazine, "but now they're everywhere." If you're looking for simpler frozen fruit, Lempert recommends Cascadian Farm's organic frozen blueberries as an affordable alternative to $5-a-pint fresh ones. When selecting fruit and veggies, dietician and food expert Melinda Hemmelgarn says the best way to support environmentally friendly practices is to look into what's grown locally. To learn...
...called Greenhouse “the greatest court reporter [and] greatest legal journalist there has ever been and ever will be.” Saying that she had sought advice from Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. ’76 before coming, Greenhouse explained some of the simpler truths of the Supreme Court: the Justices don’t always know what their decisions will mean and “eventually all nine Justices will leave the Court. We just don’t know when or in what order.” Greenhouse described...
...Global Water Research Coalition project, due to be completed mid-next year, will make testing unnecessary. Rather than having to carry out hundreds of costly and time-consuming tests for contaminants and speculating on their possible effects, scientists using the "toolbox" will be able to take a much simpler approach, detecting biological effects on, say, fish or water insects and working backward to identify the causes...
...eminently measurable. Advertisers can count the number of visitors to their site, how long they remain, if they make a purchase and where they go next. But so far there's no agreement as to which things are best to measure. The old days of TV advertising were simpler. Based on the show's ratings, advertisers paid for a certain number of eyeballs viewing their ads. But avoidance technologies - ranging from simple remotes that make it easy for people to channel surf during ad breaks to dvrs - have raised serious questions about that old formula. "You can count eyeballs...