Archive : 2011

Happenings on the August calendar

It’s too bad these wonderfully relaxing summer days can’t go on forever.  First  it’s good old June, then suddenly July makes the scene and then, shockingly, it's August. This last month of summer seems to burst up...

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Enforced language usage change

Al Shaw asks, “Did I miss the announcement when actresses and stewardesses and hostesses disappeared?” Shaw is being facetious. He knows he didn’t miss anything. Overtly feminine nouns began receiving b...

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When the world was shattered

When the first atomic bomb was detonated in a tower above the sands of a New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945, physicist and leader of the Allied team that built the device, Robert Oppenheimer, expressed the gravity of what had occurred by quot...

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“Answer Man” provides the answers

Great sport that he is, the “Answer Man” has once again agreed to field your questions about all and sundry topics. So, let’s get started. Is there anything “good” about mosquitoes? Well, ac...

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