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...Theorem No. 1: Any dramatic series the producers want us to take seriously as a representation of contemporary reality cannot be taken seriously as a representation of anything-except a show to be ignored by anyone capable of sitting upright in a chair and chewing gum simultaneously...
...nine chapters of the book not dealing directly with the strict Speed Handicapping theorem. Beyer strings together an entertaining series of short stories about his experiences at the track. That's not so unusual--all horse players love to tell stories of close finishes and amazing upsets. What makes Beyer's yarns different is that they each contain a moral, an underlying piece of horseracing truth. The sum of these truths provides even the novice with a sound basis for winning at the races...
...last fall, when a similar rumor travelled the academic grapevine, Leontief had no doubts that this time the prize was his. He was the only department member with a Russian name, and his widely used input-output theorem had long been considered worthy of the $120,000 cash prize...
...tribesmen isn't quite as thrilling as the orgasmic excitement of getting a really good flip that sends the ball into seeming oblivion. The satisfaction of saving the ball from the "kamakazi drain" by giving just the right body English is far greater than finally figuring out Taylor's theorem...
...could see only half a page, half a word, half a letter. The ability to analyze was also gone. During a prolonged reschooling period, a simple statement like "An elephant is bigger than a fly" took hours of explaining before the relationship was understood. Grasping a basic geometry theorem meant up to two months of solitary "thinking," only to have the theorem forgotten days or even hours later...