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Yesterday while tutoring a sixth grader we read a story about Logic. The gist of the story was that an old man asked a young boy, "Which is closer, the Sun or Ch'ang An?" [An ancient capital of China.] The boy replied, "The Sun, of course, I can see ...Tracked on: Have Coffee Will Write (72.9.234.70) at 2005 02 23 13:31:48 - Irreducible Crackpots
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